press release
2009 - 2010 season

The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
Written and performed by Taylor Mac
Opens February 3rd and runs through February 13th 2010
Wednesday through Saturday for two weeks only at Undermain Theatre

Undermain is pleased to bring Taylor Mac to Dallas in The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac. Clad in exotic dress and sequined makeup, Taylor Mac brings a showcase of his recent works to the stage with a multitude of costumes and props from a giant suitcase while accompanying himself on ukelele and mandolin. The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac has played over 40 theatres world wide including: the Sydney Opera House, The Public Theatre (Under the Radar Festival), London’s Soho theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and The Spoleto Festival. A flamboyant chameleon of words, music, and sociopolitical tirades, visual and vocal phenomenon, Mac employs gender-bending surrealism to explore the human condition and challenge the contemporary culture of fear.

“A Pierrot figure for the modern age.”
- The (UK) Daily Telegraph

“One of the most exciting theater artists of our time”
- Time Out NY

“Mac is one of this country’s most exciting, heroic and disarmingly funny playwrights.”
- American Theater Magazine

“Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again and sews sequins along the scars.”
- The Irish Times

“Mac is a spectacularly accomplished performer…a grand showcase for this brave and constantly morphing/evolving pastiche artist”
- NewYorkTheater.com

 

Taylor Mac is a Texas native and world- renowned performer who describes
himself as “a theater artist working in the genre of pastiche.” By any account he is an incredible monologist, playwright and performer who takes the art of drag performance to sublime heights. He has been called one of the country’s best theater artists by American Theater Magazine, the Village Voice, Time Out NY, and The New York Press.

He is the recipient of the Rockefeller Map Grant, The Creative Capital Grant, The James Hammerstein Award for Playwriting, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, A Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Elizabeth Swados) and is currently a HERE Arts Center Resident Artist and a member of New Dramatists.
He most recently performed his epic, The Lily’s Revenge at HERE Arts Center in the fall of 2009. He has performed his plays, The Young Ladies of…, Red Tide Blooming, (Performance Space 122) and The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, in New York at P.S. 122 and HERE Arts Center, The Public Theatre and internationally. Taylor’s upcoming projects include the creation of a two-man show with Mandy Patinkin.

THE BE(A)ST OF TAYLOR MAC
A Performance Showcase
Written and Performed by Taylor Mac
Feb. 3rd—Feb. 13th, 2010
Press night Feb. 3rd
2 Weeks
1 hour and 30 minutes

Undermain Theatre performances are Wednesdays-Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. and Fridays-Saturdays at 8:15 p.m. Tickets are Wednesday and Thursday $15, Friday $20, and Saturday $25. Discounts are available for seniors, students and KERA members.

Undermain Theatre is located at 3200 Main St. in Dallas. Call 214.747.5515 or visit www.undermain.org. For press information: Narciso Tovar, 214-725-4631 or narciso@bignoisecomm.com

ABOUT UNDERMAIN
Undermain Theatre, founded in 1984, is a company of artists that performs new and experimental works in Texas, New York, and Europe. The theater collaborates with playwrights, supports a theater archive and operates a theater under 3200 Main Street in Dallas’ legendary Deep Ellum. Call 214-747-2417 or visit www.undermain.org for more information.

Artistic Director: Katherine Owens. Executive Producer: Bruce DuBose. Associate Producer: Suzanne Thomas.