Time is passing strangely for Ellen Brody. The long night seemed to have set in. That’s just the way it goes when you’re the wife from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. TIME PASSES is a new work grafted together from the unlikely combination of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and the movie Jaws. 

 

"The bizarro frolic 'Time Passes' takes much of its language from the second part of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. The directors, Chloe Claudel and Mitchell Polonsky, constructed their oddball mash-up by confronting their Woolf with another beast entirely: the shark from Jaws. In one of the season’s great surprise entrances, a big gray blob in the middle of the Target Margin warehouse space inflates, expanding, over the course of several long minutes, into a life-size Great White. (It keeps getting bigger. Do we need a bigger theater?) . . . Why are these radically different texts so weirdly comfortable together? The simultaneous sense of environmental fragility and threat in the two pieces might be one point of comparison; the corrosion of salt air and the way it quickens death is another." – Helen Shaw, The New York Times

 

THE GOAT EXCHANGE is an interdisciplinary performance company founded in 2016. They bring together artists from across disciplines to create live art, film, public installation, and experimental theater. They enjoy working with old films, new plays, verbatim transcripts, classic texts, and ladybugs. Their work is interdisciplinary and collaborative, incorporating wide-ranging influences from opera, dance, literature, classic cinema, vaudeville, slapstick, pop-culture, and public art. The company has developed over 20 original productions in traditional theaters and a range of site-specific venues, from a museum gallery to a swimming pool to a football stadium to a kitchen sponge. Find out more about the company at thegoatexchange.com.

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This performance is brought to you in partnership with The University of Virginia's College at Wise and The Town of Wise.

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Pro-Art partners with a variety of venues, for accessibility inquiries or general questions, call (276) 376-4520 or email contact@proartva.org. For weather related updates, patrons are encouraged to check proartva.org for real-time information.

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Pro-Art is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly. Pro-Art is additionally supported in part by the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Smith Vicars Family Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.