The Wooster Group

The Wooster Group is a company working in theatre, dance and media. The company is based in New York and was started in 1975.

At Sceneweb you can find an overview of the productions by The Wooster Group which has been played in Norway.

Information

(Objekt ID 27618)
Object type Organization
Organization type Artist company
Established 1975
Email mail@thewoostergroup.org
Website The Wooster group

Contact information

Address Box 654, Canal Street Station, NY 10013 New York, United States
Email mail@thewoostergroup.org
Telefon 212-966-9796

Other information

Legal entity Other
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The Wooster Group has always been based in The Performing Garage. The garage was bought during the 1970es, when Soho was still abounding with empty warehouses. The Wooster Group owns part of the garage and is a part of Grand Street Artists Co-op.

In the spring program of BIT Teatergarasjen 2000 the following is written:

"The Wooster Group's productions are complex and technically brilliant, with performative elements found in the contemporary as well as in tradition. (...) Between the musical mastodons of Broadway and the contemporary mainstream off-Broadway, The Wooster Group has worked in New York's more experimental theatre community, often referred to as off-off-Broadway, a prolongation of the new American theatre avant garde of the 1950es and 60es. Among these The Wooster Group is the very spearhead, in the metropolis as well as the world."

The company has visited Norway twice; with House/Lights in 2000, and with Vieux Carré in 2011.

Sources:

The Wooster Group, thewoostergroup.org, 18.03.2012,

http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?history

Spring program, 2000, BIT Teatergarasjen

Press release from The National Theatre of Norway 2011, http://www.nationaltheatret.no/Nationaltheateret/Presserom/PRESSEBILDER/N-A/Vieux_Carr/b7zFFBB7Z9S_VTT9xE2N13jIpwJDO2U.ips

Own productions (2)
Title Premiere
Vieux Carré – Navember 6, 2009
House/Lights – May 27, 2000
Performance dates
Title Premiere
Vieux Carré – Navember 12, 2011 – The Wooster Group
Vieux Carré – Navember 11, 2011 – The Wooster Group
Vieux Carré – Navember 6, 2009 – The Wooster Group
House/Lights – May 31, 2000 – The Wooster Group
House/Lights – May 30, 2000 – The Wooster Group
House/Lights – May 29, 2000 – The Wooster Group
House/Lights – May 28, 2000 – The Wooster Group
House/Lights – May 27, 2000 – The Wooster Group