FLIGHT 18
2010-2011 Swing Space Resident, 210 Front Street
Taking place within a 6,000 square foot former retail store donated to Swing Space by General Growth Properties FLIGHT 18, conceived, directed, and piloted by theatre artist Eric Wallach is an interactive performance that invites its passengers on board a spaceship voyaging toward the outer limits of space.
FLIGHT 18 is an environmental entertainment experience and public forum where performers and audience can interact and freely express themselves. Never the same flight twice!
The event begins at the ticketing counter where each passenger is photographed and briefly interviewed. With their boarding passes, passengers go through security check, then down the jet way and onto the groovy boarding lounge. Ensemble members are interspersed amongst the public and with the provocative flight crew as well as the pilots in the cockpit, passengers interact through song, dance, and the meeting of minds. Everyone is welcome to participate or simply enjoy the exchange.
Eric Wallach (Captain) is an independent theatre artist who directs, writes, and produces live performance. Always crossing the boundaries that divide the audience from the show, Eric continues to create innovative theatre with a progressive edge that is inclusive, audacious and joyful. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Eric arrived to New York in 1994 where he has directed at Performance Space 122, The Culture Project, chashama, Knitting Factory, HERE, Dixon Place, and Bowery Poetry Club among many others. Most recently, he was an associate director for two workshop productions at Dixon Place; Chris Rael!s Araby and Penny Arcade!s Old Queen. In 2008 he produced, directed, choreographed and co-wrote The Jack of Tarts: A Bittersweet Musical at La MaMa E.T.C. He has written and directed plays such as Interview or Who!s Afraid of Edward Albee?, Radical Jew: 33, The Didi Plays, Cain, and Millesgården. Wallach has worked closely with theatre greats including Joseph Chaikin, Jack O!Brien, and Robert Wilson. Wallach received his BA in Theatre from San Diego State University in 1994 and was a recipient of an Edward Albee Writing Fellowship in 2003.
FLIGHT 18 will be presented March 5-7, 11-14, 18-21, 25-28; April 1-4; Thursdays at 7:29PM, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:29PM and 9:27PM; Sundays at 4:59PM.
