THEATER
MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019
9:00 PM

Mallory Catlett: DECODER: Ticket That Exploded
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

$10 advance; $15 door
https://pioneerworks.org/programs/decoder-ticket-that-exploded/

William Burroughs wrote his Nova Trilogy in the 1960s using the "cut-up technique", in which texts from various sources (including but very much not limited to Burroughs himself) were cut up and then reassembled at random. So how did it turn out to be so prophetic? The Chocolate Factory in Queens has commissioned a set of theatrical performances/interpretations of the whole trilogy, which will be staged there next year. This is the middle piece (the second of the three novels), conceived and directed by the redoubtable Mallory Catlett, who is fully able to fully match Burroughs's hallucinatory, disjointed manner.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb cocktails at Fort Defiance. And Monday is Burger Night!