Elevator Repair Service
Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is a New York based theatre company founded by director John Collins and a group of actors in 1991. The group works in collective processes and often performs audience viewings during the process to receive reactions. Elevator Repair Service tours USA and Europe with its productions.
Information
(Objekt ID 4736)| Object type | Organization |
| Also known as | ERS |
| Organization type | Theatre company |
| Main focus | Theatre |
| Website | ERS |
Contact information
| Address | New York, United States |
Other information
| Legal entity | Other |
Elevator Repair Service guarantees original theatre performances based on literature, film, television and existing text material. ERS' style combines traditional drama with slapstick comedy, hi- and lo-tech design and a very refined, peculiar approach of choreography.
The company's most recent work focuses on classical literature, with an adaptation of Henry James’ Turn of the Screw, and now also F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Under the artistic direction of the co-directors John Collins and Steve Bodow, the company could be seen about all over New York and has also been touring extensively in Europe and North America.
ERS has become a standard in the experimental theatre history of New York and has been praised many times by the national and international press. In 1998 ERS was at the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts with Cab Legs, a show that was much applauded by the audience and the reviewers.
| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Gatz | – December 7, 2006 |
| Title | Premiere |
|---|---|
| Gatz | – December 17, 2006 – Elevator Repair Service |
| Gatz | – December 16, 2006 – Elevator Repair Service |
| Gatz | – December 13, 2006 – Elevator Repair Service |
| Gatz | – December 12, 2006 – Elevator Repair Service |
| Gatz | – December 8, 2006 – Elevator Repair Service |
| Gatz | – December 7, 2006 – Elevator Repair Service |
| John Collins | – Artistic director |
| Liza Zapol | – Administrative head |