12/09 @ 8:00pm - Binibon – free reading by Elliott Sharp and Jack Womack

Tuesday, December 9

A Free Preview Reading by Elliott Sharp and Jack Womack

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Deborah Harry, Alanna Heiss, William Gibson, Robert Longo, Tony Conrad, Toni Dove, Jonathan Lethem and ISSUE Project Room invite you to a special free reading of excerpts of BINIBON, the new music-theater piece by Elliott Sharp with text by Jack Womack and direction by Tea Alagic that will premiere at The Kitchen in May 2009.

BINIBON is a work of both musical theater and alternative history based on the 1981 murder by Jack Henry Abbott of Richard Adan. Richard was a waiter and the night manager at the Binibon, a cafe and 24-hour hangout on 2nd Avenue at 5th Street in the East Village, a nexus for artists, musicians,neighborhood characters and bohemians true and faux. It was a place that E# spent many an hour drinking bottomless cups of terrible coffee during 1979-81.

Abbott was a talented writer, as well as an imprisoned killer who became the protege of famed author Norman Mailer (Mailer sponsored his release into a halfway house on 3rd Street.) The killing was a an important cusp-point in the history of the neighborhood, its culture, its daily life, its real-estate, and its future. E#’s music draws upon his own compositional and performance innovations that he developed during the time of these events with ties to punk, No Wave, noise, dance, industrial and exotic sounds. Jack Womack is famed for his “Dryco Series” of novels portraying a post-Apocalypse NYC.

free, 8pm