PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY TO PERFORM AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

The Obie Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company will give four performances of its acclaimed Flop. A play without words. Sort of. at Bryn Mawr's Goodhart Theater on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

The company's appearance at Bryn Mawr is part of the College's yearlong Performing Arts Series, featuring some of this country's finest performance artists and musicians.

Tickets to individual events in the series are $15 for the general public, $12.50 for seniors and Bryn Mawr faculty and staff, and $5 for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students. The performance is recommended for children over eight years of age as well as the adult audience; tickets are $10 for children. Subscription packages offer discounts, mix-and-match ticket flexibility and priority seating. For tickets, call the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210. For other events in the series, see http://www.brynmawr.edu/calendar/performing_arts.shtml.

Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a "delight" and by Philadelphia Weekly as a "comic juggernaut" and "60 minutes of theatrical perfection," Flop is a new kind of vaudeville made famous by Cirque du Soleil. It features three of Philadelphia's finest and funniest performers — Nichole Canuso of Headlong Dance Theater; Lee Etzold, a founding member of New Paradise Laboratories; and Parisian clown and cabaret singer Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey — as unlikely heroines racing against time to save the world.

Taking its name from the counterbalance weight used backstage to maneuver scenery and curtains, Pig Iron Theatre Company calls itself a "dance-clown-theater ensemble" dedicated to the creation of new performance works that defy easy categorization. A unique amalgam of indie-rock band, modern-dance troupe, performance seminar and comedy act, the company has created shows ranging from visual spectacles in Philadelphia's Arden Theater to sprawling installations in underground catacombs to tiny puppet presentations at a crêperie. Its performances have been described as "soundscape and spectacle," "cabaret-ballet" and "avant-garde shadow puppet dessert-theater."

Since its founding in 1995, the company has created more than 17 original works and toured festivals and theaters in Brazil, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania and Scotland. Winner of the 2004 Obie and other national and international awards, Pig Iron recently created work during its residencies with Toni Morrison's Atelier Program, the Joseph Papp Theater and Dance Theater Workshop in New York.

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