Gus and Fred Smash the TV:
A TV Opera for an unclean age.
Written and Directed by Harold Lehmann
Set by Samantha Lopez Uhthoff
Video by Evin Watson
Featuring Jim Ford, Alex Kipp, and Robert Weinstein
Gus and Fred Smash the TV tells the story of a couple of slackers who climb inside their TV set searching for the show that reveals their true identities. Gus and Fred Smash the TV combines elements of Brechtian alienation, physical theatre, and video collage against a driving poetic text.
Performed at CRS
123 4th Avenue, New York
Fridays and Saturdays, June of 2006