356mission – The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity

The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity

March 19 – March 20, 2016

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The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity
An opera by Robert Ashley
Directed by Alex Waterman

with Mary Farley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jibz Cameron, Sean Daly, Kendra Sullivan, and Alex Waterman

video from the first performance: Saturday March 19

The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity
The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity

An opera by Robert Ashley
Directed by Alex Waterman

with Mary Farley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jibz Cameron, Sean Daly, Kendra Sullivan, and Alex Waterman

video from the second performance: Sunday March 20
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"'The Trial' can still be a trial for the squirmish. A few walked out Sunday, but most of the crowd of mostly young people from the art world sat on folding chairs riveted. Rudimentary or not, they couldn't have ever heard anything quite like it, because there is nothing quite like it." – Mark Swed for The Los Angeles Times, March 2016
"In the original ONCE production, of which only a grainy black-and-white video remains, Anne Wehrer was a scintillating conversationalist, and the main thrust of the work was to basically goad her into sharing this skill with an audience. Anne Wehrer died in 2007, so to replace this larger-than-life conversationalist, who is specifically named in the title, Waterman has brought in a rotating group of Annes. For the presentation at Mission Road, the burden of being interrogated fell to Wayne Koestenbaum on the first night and Mary Farley on the second. Farley bristled at questions that were clearly aimed specifically at Anne Wehrer and launched into long entertaining rants in response to other questions." – Steve Kado for CMagazine, Summer 2016
Robert Ashley: Yes, But Is It Edible? book launch and reading

September 30, 2014
The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity

An opera by Robert Ashley
Directed by Alex Waterman

with Mary Farley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jibz Cameron,
Sean Daly, Kendra Sullivan, and Alex Waterman

two seatings:

Saturday March 19, 5:30 PM

Sunday March 20, 5:30 PM

Tickets are free but seating is limited
email rsvp@356mission.com to reserve

UPDATE: Both seatings for this event are at capacity.

WAITLIST: We will take names for the waiting list starting at 5 PM on the day of each performance, for that performance only. To be on the waiting list, individuals must be present at 356 Mission (we cannot take names for the waiting list by phone or email and do not take them prior to 5 PM on the day of the performance). Waiting list does not guarantee a seat, but we will do our best to accommodate everyone who wants to see The Trial.

Tags: Alex Waterman, Jibz Cameron, Kendra Sullivan, Mary Farley, Robert Ashley, Sean Daly, Wayne Koestenbaum

The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer and Unknown Accomplices For Crimes Against Humanity

Robert Ashley: Yes, But Is It Edible? book launch and reading