Friday September 19 at 7pm - Mount Airy Waves, 118 W Phil Ellena Street (a former garage converted to performance space/studio)
Saturday September 20 at 7pm - Mount Airy Waves, 118 W Phil Ellena Street (a former garage converted to performance space/studio)
Monday September 22 at 8pm - House show, 1902 Waterloo Street, Kensington
Thursday September 25 at 7pm - Wyck House Education Shack 6026 Germantown Avenue
Friday September 26 at 7pm - Wyck House Education Shack 6026 Germantown Avenue
From the 1950s through the 1980s, the slideshow was a staple of the American household. SLIDESHOW drops audiences back into the time of Kodachrome colors, weaving a fictional family history around strangers’ real slides of long ago vacations. A funny, disturbing, and deeply felt work about the disconnection between the lives of children and those of their parents, SLIDESHOW recreates a lost ritual and delves into the aspirations of 20th-century American life. First performed in 2014, these will be the first performances of SLIDESHOW since 2017, and kick off a yearlong series of performances throughout the country.
“What if Don Draper’s Carousel pitch was a theatrical experience? That’s kind of the vibe given off by Josh McIlvain‘s Slideshow. This intimate performance uses real slides to unfold a gripping tale of a family as seen through the fleeting images on a screen.” Philebrity.com
“The performance is a brilliant exercise in connecting dots that lead McIlvain’s unnamed character on an epic journey with several loves.“ Mark Cofta, Broad Street Review
“The punchy-colored slides and humorous yet heartfelt prose McIlvain recites is as uncanny and nostalgic as some of our own family scrapbooks.” City Paper
“Ingenious travel down memory lane!” Stage Magazin
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