THEATER
THURSDAY - SUNDAY, JUNE 6 - 10 (continuing through JUNE 16)
8:00 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Mabou Mines:  This Was the End
Mabou Mines Theater, The 122 CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan

$25; $15 students/seniors
http://www.maboumines.org/production/this-was-the-end-2/

This is a production by the venerable Mabou Mines experimental theater company that's been kicking around for a while -- and boy am I excited about it.  The text is Uncle Vanya -- but performed by four Actors Of A Certain Age, decades older than the characters in Chekhov's play, vivifying the sense of perpetual entrapment that permeates the work, and layering on meditations on memory and the constant presence of the past.  This is Mabou Mines, though, so this isn't a simple traversal of the (edited) text:  there's a video DJ doing a live video remix of the stage action as it proceeds -- projected on a wall recovered from Mabou Mines's old demolished studio in this same recently renovated building.  Audience Members Of A Certain Age will be thrilled to learn that the Actors Of A Certain Age include NYC experimental theater legend Paul Zimet as well as (!!!) Black Eyed Susan of the Ridiculous Theater Company.  Mallory Catlett conceived and directs.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Everybody loves Superiority Burger.  So I guess my own skepticism about vegetarian hamburgers can be disregarded.