"Everybody today is a Rauschenbergian, whether they know it or not….Rauschenberg is who we would like to be as Americans at our best, with this spirit of egalitarianism and openness to life."
-Charles L. Mee

bobrauschenbergamerica
Created and performed by SITI Company
Written by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Anne Bogart

VENUE
BAM Harvey Theater

DATE/ TIME
Oct 14—18 at 7:30pm

PRICE
Tickets: $20, 35, 50

BAM DIALOGUE
BAMdialogue with Anne Bogart, Charles L. Mee, and Mel Gussow
Oct 14 at 6pm

DESCRIPTION
"Isn't it something how he can see the beauty in almost anything!" A mother's loving, and stunningly astute words define both the theme and subject of bobrauschenbergamerica, a spirited tribute to one of America's greatest living artists by Charles L. Mee, whose Obie Award-winning Big Love (2001 Next Wave), put a modern-day spin on Greek tragedy.

In collaboration with director Anne Bogart (War of the Worlds, 2000 Next Wave) and SITI Company, Mee takes us on a wild road trip through both the light and dark sides of our American landscape in a play that Robert Rauschenberg might have conceived if he had been a playwright instead of a painter: a collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and violent shootings and chicken jokes, and of the sheer exhilaration—and anxiety—of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.

Costumes and set design by James Schuette
Lighting design by Brian H. Scott
Sound design by Darron L West
Produced in association with True Love Productions