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    Live Arts - Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre Company + Toshiki Okada

    Live Arts - Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre Company + Toshiki Okada

    Presented by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe at University of the Arts - Arts Bank

    September 5-September 22, 2012


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    A dream of radical change, thinks Toshiki Okada, reading Walden from his home in Tokyo. A beautiful book, but only a dream. Then 3/11 happens— those numbers will, for a generation of Japanese people, stand in for the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear disaster at Fukushima. In Tokyo, “unconfirmed” urban radiation levels are reported and milk is removed from supermarket shelves. In this atmosphere of deadly weirdness an architect who studies the homes of the homeless declares himself Prime Minister of Japan from his artist’s refuge in Kumamoto, far outside the city in Western Japan. For Toshiki, the Walden fantasy is becoming a necessity.

    Bring Toshiki Okada’s sly, personal, and idiosyncratic writing together with Pig Iron’s raucous performance spirit, and you have Zero Cost House, a time- and space-bending autobiographical production about drastic relocations, rereading Walden, remaking government, and the freedom and heaviness of that moment when what’s impossible becomes concrete.

    In short: self-appointed prime minister, coded gestures, Walden, duck suit.


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      • Venue Info

        University of the Arts - Arts Bank

        601 S. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19102

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      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        $28-$35 (General Admission)
        $23-$28 (Preview Ticket)
        $18 (Student, 25-and-under)(student and 25-and-under tickets $18)


        Info Phone: 215-413-1318

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        September 5-September 22, 2012

        Times:

        Wednesday, September 5th @ 7 pm (preview)
        Thursday, September 6th @ 7 pm (preview)
        Friday, September 7th @ 7 pm (previews)
        Saturday, September 8th @ 2 pm (preview)
        Saturday, September 8th @ 8 pm (opening)
        Sunday, September 9th @  2 pm
        Tuesday, September 11th @ 7 pm
        Wednesday, September 12th @ 7 pm (Post-show discussion)
        Thursday, September 13th @ 7 pm
        Friday, September 14th @ 7 pm
        Saturday, September 15h @ 2 pm and 9 pm
        Sunday, September 16th @ 2 pm
        Tuesday, September 18th @ 7 pm
        Wednesday, September 19th @ at 7pm
        Thursday, September 20th @ 7 pm
        Friday, September 21st @ 9 pm
        Saturday, September 22nd @ 2 pm and 9 pm

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