Untitled Peter Tripp Project comes to Pi Theatre from May 4 to 6

Cautionary tale based on radio DJ’s undoing explores hallucination, fugue states, and doppelgänger paranoia

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Untitled Peter Tripp Project. Photo by Lee Henderson

Pi Theatre, as part of its Pi Provocateurs Series, presents Untitled Peter Tripp Project from May 4 to 6 at a secret location which will be announced to ticket holders a week before the performance. Showings are at 7:30 pm with an additional matinee at 2 pm on May 6.

Peter Tripp, a once-celebrated radio DJ, performed a publicity stunt in 1959 wherein he broadcast continuously for 201 hours from a glass booth in Times Square. This act was his undoing—he suffered psychological complications from prolonged sleep deprivation, and he was indicted for commercial bribery in the 1960 “payola” scandal.

Untitled Peter Tripp Project is a physical and poetic interpretation of Tripp’s dilemma that combines endurance-based movement, improvisational and written text, image projection, radio frequency programming, and looping sound recordings in order to conjure paranoia.

Produced by Regina-based theatre company Curtain Razors, the show is the creation of artists Johanna Bundon, Jayden Pfeifer, and Lee Henderson, and will be performed by the trio along with Tess Degenstein.

Tickets and more information are at Pi Theatre.

Post sponsored by Pi Theatre.

Untitled Peter Tripp Project. Photo by Lee Henderson