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James Scruggs, Disposable Men |
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First broadcast February 14, 2008
How far would you go to feel something?
The intimate, psychosexual mystery of one man, his wife, and another -- each yearning to feel something they can't feel anymore -- drawn together towards a final fall. Piece together a fragmented memory trail that reveals an underworld of extreme pleasure, set to throbbing Latin beats.
James Scruggs wrote and produced a multi-channel video installation called Disposable Men, a piece about the mayor approved NYC police shootings of unarmed black men. It had a private showing in DUMBO in May of 2000. In 2002, Men became a performance piece, performed at BAX and selected to participate in a Summer Institute for emerging performance artists at The Kitchen. In 2003, he was selected for the HERE Artist Residency Program. Men was fully produced at HERE in February 2005, and it was brought back by popular demand for a limited engagement in June 2005. Men received a 2005 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Solo Performance. Other works include Touchscape, (2002 Queer@HERE festival, The 2002 Voices from the Edge festival) and Thuggish, was one of seven plays chosen to be part of Naked Angels Writers Lab in 2003. His newest work, (RUS)H, is being developed through the Mabou Mines/SUITE program. He has received grants from Franklin Furnace, Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation (for his video design), and from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
February 27 - March 23, 2008 @ 8 PM
3-Legged Dog
80 Greenwich St., near Rector St.
$18.00 / Ticket
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