Profiles & Interviews • Press
- Vulture March 19, 2020
- The Times of London May 10, 2012
- The New York Times December 16, 2010
- The New Yorker September 27, 2010
- ArtForum: Best of 2007 December 2007
- The Point Magazine Spring 2009
- The New York Times Magazine December 9, 2007
- TheatreForum Issue 23
- TheatreForum Issue 23
- Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Issue 24
- Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Issue 24
- The Village Voice May 28, 2002
- Bomb Spring 1999
- The Village Voice May 26, 1998
- American Theatre September 1997
- The Village Voice September 16, 1997
- Paper December 1994
Best Experimental Theater Troupe
“E.R.S. is the shit!” exclaims Mark Russell, artistic director of Performance Space 122, which the seven-year-old theater troupe calls home. “Among the renaissance of experimental companies happening today, they are the most adventurous, taking their influences from Richard Foreman and the Wooster Group and making their own voice from that history.” Indeed, by day, E.R.S. co-director John Collins, 28, works as a sound designer for the Wooster Group. “More than any particular aesthetic,” says Collins, “I learned from them about the freedom I can have working on plays.” The fifteen-member troupe is presenting an as-yet-identified work-in-progress based on vaudeville and various documentaries May 7 through 10. On its heels, May 14 through 17, comes a return engagement of Cab Legs, an experiment with traditional narative that moves between intimate scenes of whispered dialogue and dance numbers based on Indian cinema and old Cab Calloway cartoons. “We want our audiences to laugh,” says Steve Bodow, 31, Collins’s partner in performance crime, “but not always to be sure why they’re laughing.”