617 Productions presents Joe Peracchio in POLLOCK

A new play from Broadway director and founding member of the Juilliard Drama School, Moni Yakim of Jerusalem, and playwright David D’Agostino, POLLOCK is a multi-media tour de force one-man piece featuring original music by jazz legend Ornette Coleman and performed by Joe Peracchio.

Taking their cue from the very abstract expressionist movement and Action Painting that Pollock made famous, the production team, including Broadway video designer David Tirosh of Israel, two-time Emmy nominated composer Gary Stockdale, and award-winning lighting designer Jason Mullen, leads the audience on a ferocious and provocative journey through the heart and mind of Jackson Pollock. Set somewhere between the artist’s barn-studio on Long Island and the vastness of his playful and tormented internal world, POLLOCK drags us kicking, laughing, and screaming through the history, memories, desires, and influences that created this opinionated, childlike, often violent, and always wildly brilliant icon of art!

“I’ve learned that art is coming face to face with yourself. It’s about truth. And you’ve got to destroy a hell of a lot to get at truth.” – Jackson Pollock from POLLOCK.

Special Thanks to these organizations and individuals for their support of the 2010 World Premiere of POLLOCK:

The Juilliard School of Drama, Pasadena Playhouse, California International Theatre Festival & Linda Purl, Rubicon Theatre, Tricklock Company, University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts, and Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Southwest Belaynesh Zevadia and Cultural Officer Ben Stinsman.

Premiere production developed & produced by 617 Productions in collaboration with Tricklock Company’s Revolutions International Theatre Festival 2010.