Caden Manson/Big Art Group is a New York City performance company founded in 1999. The company uses the language of media and blended states of performance in a unique form to build culturally transgressive and challenging new works. Since its inception, it has toured nationally and internationally and produced five new major pieces including the 'Real Time Film' trilogy Shelf Life, Flicker, and House of No More

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CLEARCUT CATASTROPHE! (1999)

In Clearcut, catastrophe! themes like the tragic entrapment of nostalgia and the futility of escapist fantasies of the future play out in declining and decaying parallel universes of the Maysles Brothers' film "Grey Gardens" (a grotesquely humorous documentary about Jacqueline Onassis' aunt and a cousin) and of Chekhov's Russian masterpiece "Three Sisters."
 

 

 

PRESS:

"Everything one longs for downtown theater to be. Sharp, irreverent, inventive and utterly preposterous, this scrappy little production by Big Art Group is a crazy idea brought to thoughtful fruition." - Citysearch.com

"A marvel...a bunch of smart, energetic performers letting their ideas loose onstage.." - Back Stage

"It is mighty powerful stuff the Big Art Group serves up in their 'CLEARCUT, catastrophe!" - Theatre Reviews Ltd.

"... full house of staunch (that's s-t-a-u-n-c-h, Masha informs us) supporters." - Curtain Up.com

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