Reggie Watts

TRANSITION, Directed by Tommy Smith

Utilizing sonic manipulation, stereophonic effects, live video interactions, geometric movement sequences, disinformationist storytelling and onstage BMX acrobatics, Reggie Watts and his theatrical consorts employ visual and linguistic tricks to destabilize the mind and render it open to suggestion, continually baiting the viewer into believing that a form of reality will stabilize, a belief the piece constantly denies. TRANSITION is an amorphic experience that, once understood, radicalizes the notion of how we perceive time. The completion of the total awareness of the time-stream renders the mind complete, thus causing the perfect opportunity for the autonomous mindgrid to dismantle itself.

A staple of the international performance scene, Watts has appeared at Madison Square Garden, The Box, Moonwork, Hudson Theatre (LA), Moore Theatre (Seattle), Roundhouse Theatre (London), Design Indaba at Dexter Hall (South Africa), and Blue Note (Tokyo), among others. He co-created (with Tommy Smith) and performed DISINFORMATION at the 2008 Under The Radar Theatre Festival and TBA:07, with showings at MCA Chicago, Painted Bride (Philadephia) and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh). Watts received the 2006 Andy Kaufman Award for comedic performance.

This project was made possible by the National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of the NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.org.

www.reggiewatts.com

Moves seamlessly from skits to songs to off-kilter stand-up, while talking in a subway train full of accents. The New York Times