June 9-12, 2011 - 8pm Thurs-Sat, 4pm Sun
PURCHASE TICKETS

Z Space Presents Pig Iron Theatre Company's
CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN

Z Space and Philadelphia's best "dance-clown-theatre ensemble," Pig Iron Theatre, is bringing it's award winning production, CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN, to San Francisco. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the top ten theatre events in 2008 in New York," CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN is a startling, poignant amalgam of Russian tragicomedy and contemporary brain science.

A lonely, mildly-autistic botanist conjures up a parade of unsettling and comic recollections in an attempt to shape his fractured memories into a comforting fiction. Pig Iron's virtuosic physical performers spin a web of memory, vaudeville, and the impossible task of telling a story straight.

Pig Iron's website

Press coverage: 7x7, SF Chronicle

“A bold new work that shows Philly’s most adventurous company has lost none
of its zeal for theatrical exploration… With the experimental Lizardbrain Pig Iron
takes more risks than most companies do in an entire season… Pig Iron’s
examination of the human mind is never less than captivating…”
-The Philadelphia Weekly

This project is presented in association with the FURY Factory Theater Festival

For the three weeks in June 2011 the many theater spaces in the Project Artaud building in San Francisco’s Mission district will become home to an outpouring of performance, artistic exchange and cross pollination, panel discussions, and training events open to everyone. This year, 31 innovative theater companies from all over the country will converge in San Francisco from June 7-26 for FoolsFURY's acclaimed biennial theater festival, co-hosted by Z Space and Theatre of Yugen.