"Improbable Theatre suggests, in an eloquent, original, and purely theatrical language…that the rawest materials of life are themselves so pregnant with mystery and the capacity for change that disguising them is beside the point."
—The New York Times

The Hanging Man
Improbable Theatre
Directed, designed, and scripted by Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson, and Julian Crouch
Co-designed by Phil Eddolls

VENUE
BAM Harvey Theater

DATE/ TIME
Nov 4—8 at 7:30pm
Nov 9 at 3pm

TICKETS
$20, 30, 45

BAM DIALOGUE
BAMdialogue with Improbable Theatre creative team
Nov 5 at 6pm

DESCRIPTION
Architect Edward Braff dangles by his neck in midair. His dreams of completing a dazzling cathedral leave him caught, literally, between heaven and hell. Amid a kind of architectural purgatory of raw beams, columns, and flapping ropes, a peculiar troupe of performers launches into marvelous riffs on a single story—his story: the story of the Hanging Man, his unrealized potential, and the hopeless and hilarious struggle to earn his death.
Medieval and modern, ridiculous and raw, The Hanging Man's bitter-sweet-bitter tale is conceived and realized by London's aptly named Improbable Theatre (New Yorkers will recall their singular visual style and intimate improvisational storytelling in the Obie-winning 70 Hill Lane, Off-Broadway's "instant biography" Lifegame, and the deliciously grisly "junk opera" Shockheaded Peter), a troupe widely recognized as one of the most original voices at work on the international stage.

Lighting design by Colin Grenfell
Sound design by Darron L West
Costume design by Stephen Snell

A co-production with The West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, the Walker Art Center, The Lyric Hammersmith, and the Wiener Festwochen. Produced in association with Pomegranate Arts.