Pataphysics Penyeach is an evening of irreverent theater (a la Alfred Jarry) written and directed by avant-garde legend Lee Breuer:  Summa Dramatica – a spiritual acting lesson, and Porco Morto – an elegy for Ponzi Porco PhD, pig of the avant-garde.

Delivered as a lecture/postscript to William James’ “Varieties of Religious Experience”, Summa sends up and up and up into the ionosphere “Acting-in-Itself”.  Porco Morto is a post mortem for Ponzi Porco PhD, avant-garde pig and author of "The Lonely Planet Guide to Heaven on Earth".  Porco is resurrected, via a bunraku puppet, to rhapsodize upon his sexual attraction for The New York Times. 

OBIE award-winners Ruth Maleczech and Greg Mehrten star as the four-armed bovine Goddess and the old pot-head pig…an intimate of Hunter Thompson…who fell in Love with The New York Times when he realized he had always wanted to screw the system.

Development workshops: 

• The Flea Theater - February-March, 2005
• Brown University - April, 2005
• The Actors' Studio - March, 2008

Premiere:

• ToRoNaDa (Mabou Mines' Studio)- As part of Under the Radar Festival January 8-18, 2009

Touring:

• 4th Street Theatre of NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP January 13-31, 2010 (A Project of the Jonathan Larson Lab)

Special Funding for Pataphysics Penyeach was provided by: The Jim Henson Foundation, Piece by Piece Productions, Inc. and The Natalie Zinn Haar Foundation.