Time Passes (for Ellen Brody)

The Goat Exchange

Presented by UTR in partnership with The Public Theater

#NYC-Based Artist, #70 Minutes or Less

photo credit: Abigail Sage

Time is passing strangely for Ellen Brody. The long night seemed to have set in. That’s just the way it goes when you’re the wife from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

The Goat Exchange brings together two great texts from 20th-century women: “Time Passes”, the astonishing central section of Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse and all of Ellen Brody’s lines in Jaws.

But what, after all, is one night? Coffee?

“A bizarro frolic” – The New York Times

Created by The Goat Exchange
Co-Director and Cast: Chloe Claudel
Co-Director, Sound and Media: Mitchell Polonsky
Voiceover: Emily Davis
Scenic: Forest Entsminger
Costumes: Olivia Vaughn Hern
Choreography: Lena Engelstein
Producer: Kerrigan Quenemoen

The Goat Exchange is an NYC-based experimental performance ensemble creating work across theater, film, live art and installation. Now entering their tenth year as an ensemble, they have developed over twenty original productions to be staged everywhere from traditional theaters to museums, a swimming pool, a football stadium and a kitchen sponge. Their performances rework familiar texts alongside original writing and found or verbatim material through a collaborative devising process. Recent productions include Two Girls (Cherry Lane Theatre), Dad Don’t Read This (St. Luke’s Theatre, Greenwich House Theater, NYT Critic’s Pick), Time Passes (for Ellen Brody) (Target Margin, Mabou Mines), Deadclass, Ohio (The Tank), Sweet Bird (The Barn at Lee & Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival), and Escaped Alone (not not not not not enough oxygen) (Torn Page). Time Passes (for Ellen Brody) was recently named by The New York Times among the most “mind-altering theater moments” of 2026.

Time Passes (for Ellen Brody) is made possible by Exponential Festival, RE/VENUE NYC, Target Margin Theater and ALab Theater Festival.

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
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Appropriate Age Range
Recommended for Audiences Ages 10 and up

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, January 6 at 7pm
Thursday, January 7 at 7pm
Friday, January 8 at 9pm
Saturday, January 9 at 6pm
Sunday, January 10 at 4pm

Tuesday, January 12 at 6pm
Wednesday, January 13 at 9pm
Thursday, January 14 at 6pm
Friday, January 15 at 1pm

VENUE

Martinson Hall
The Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
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Accessibility
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Run Time:
60 minutes

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