photo credit: 600 HIGHWAYMEN
Flags and guns, ice storms, pleasure, rage. For five years, Michael drove around rural New York with a camera. Auction houses, state fairs, rallies, diners, abandoned churches. Thousands of moving photographs from one small pocket of the country. From this archive, Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone (600 HIGHWAYMEN) make FIVE YEARS: a sprawling, unruly live performance for four enormous screens. Images and sound collide, overlap, accumulate. Somewhere in the middle, a child is born. An America comes into view: its beauty and violence, its absurdity and tenderness. The portrait grows stranger, thornier, harder to resolve. An epic of intimacy. This is a home movie.
“I wish to hear anything that 600 HIGHWAYMEN has to say…
their guilelessness is central to their beautiful art.” – THE NEW YORKER
CREDITS
Created by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
Photography: Michael Silverstone
Text and Editing: Abigail Browde
Original Music and Sound Design: Ryan Gamblin
Projection Design and Additional Editing: Attilio Rigotti
Lighting Design: Eric Southern
Dramaturgy: Andrew Kircher
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone (600 HIGHWAYMEN) have worked together since 2009. Their work has been presented internationally at Centre Pompidou, Salzburg Festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Onassis Stegi, Bristol Old Vic, Dublin Theatre Festival, Volkstheater Wien, and NYU Abu Dhabi, and in the U.S. at The Public Theater, American Repertory Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Walker Art Center, among others. Their work has been translated into seven languages. Browde and Silverstone are Guggenheim Fellows and recipients of an Obie Award, Switzerland’s ZKB Patronage Prize, and a Rauschenberg Residency. The Guardian has described them as “quietly shaking up American theatre since 2009.”
FUNDING + SUPPORT
Production design support was made possible by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.
FIVE YEARS was commissioned by PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance and developed with support from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Mitu’s Artists-At-Home Program.
VENUE NOTES + ACCESSIBILITY
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003
By Subway: West Side – R/W to the 8th Street Station; East Side – 6 to Astor Place Station
By Bus: M2, M3, or M8 to 8th Street and 4th Avenue; M5 or M6 to 8th Street and Broadway; M15 to 2nd Avenue and 9th Street; M101 or M102 to 8th Street and Cooper Union
By Car: Exit the FDR Drive at Houston Street, drive west to Lafayette Street and turn right. Or, drive down Broadway to 4th Street, turn left on 4th Street and then again on Lafayette Street
Venue Access
Learn more about Accessibility Services for People with Disabilities. If you have additional questions, need assistance, or an accommodation, please feel free to speak to a member of our staff at any point during your visit or contact us at accessibility@publictheater.org.
Appropriate Age Range
Recommended for audience members aged 13 and older
SCHEDULE
Saturday, January 16 at 6pm
Saturday, January 16 at 9pm
Sunday, January 17 at 1pm
Sunday, January 17 at 4pm
VENUE
Martinson Hall
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
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