ERS' ode to Mission Impossible and turn of the century New York City, McGurk unfolds in The Bowery's legendary saloon, "McGurk's Suicide Hall." In a ploy to expose a corrupt politician from the past, a crack team of imposters recreate the infamous bar where prostitutes and other low life came to poison themselves. Gambling, carribean-style demon-possession, burlesque performances by a mason jar and, finally, a fixed election ensue before the clueless mark, Alexander Washington Plinkett, is undone.

PAST PERFORMANCES

• 1993 Ontological-at-St-Mark's Theater
• 1994 Here Theater

PRESS

Village Voice 20 Sep 1994
McGurk: A Cautionary Tale by Brian Parks

CAST

• Bradley Glenn
• Rinne Groff
• James Hannaham
• Leo Marks
• Steven Ratazzi
• Scott Shepherd
• Susie Sokol
• Colleen Werthmann

• Directed by John Collins, with Steve Bodow
• Lighting by Clay Shirky
• Sound by Blake Koh
• Costumes by Colleen Werthmann
• Set by Eric Liftin
• Stage Managed by Nan Strauss