Shut Up I Tell You draws on two wildly divergent sources and stirs them together. A collection of obscure radio horror stories which found its way fortuitouslly into the company's hands forms the basis for part one of the piece. A series of stage adaptations of these radio plays, part one is a slapstick romp through a set piled with forgotten furniture, electric garbage cans and old dot-matrix printers that play "cats" and talk back when spoken to.

Part Two takes the awkard, amateurish and hilariously twisted style of part one and applies it to a narrative of the company's own making. The plot, laced with details uncovered in the group's research into secret societies, revolves around a hapless architect stumbling on to a masonic sect. The second act resolves itself in a battle to the death between our hero the architect and her very unlikely foe, the Worshipful Master of the local lodge.

PAST PERFORMANCES

• 1995 Ontological-at-St-Mark's Theater (as "Boulevard of Broken")
• 1996 Performance Space 122

PRESS

Artforum Mar 1996
Shut Up I Tell You (I Said Shut Up I Tell You) by Steven Drukman

CAST

• Rinne Groff
• James Hannaham
• Scott Shepherd
• Susie Sokol
• and John Collins

• Directed by John Collins and Steve Bodow
• Lighting by Clay Shirky
• Sound by Blake Koh and John Collins
• Choreography by Katherine Profeta and ERS
• Costumes by Colleen Werthmann
• Stage Managed by Susan Bowen