Peter is sitting on a park bench reading a book. Jerry enters: “I’ve been to the zoo.”
In honor of our 25th birthday, let’s start the year with our very first pub-reading ever.
The Zoo Story kicked things off at an Irish pub in New York’s West Village (called Mr. Dennehy’s), and then in Tivoli (formerly The Black Swan) in 2009. We’ve read it a few times since and fully produced it with a rotating cast in 2011. Now it’s time to experience this modern classic – and a Tangent classic – once again.

The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
with Jeffrey Doornbos* as Peter
and Michael Rhodes* as Jerry
An exploration of loneliness, the struggle to connect and the underlying tensions between social classes – as two unlikely New Yorkers meet on a Central Park bench.

Sunday, February 2

@ Village Hall
86 Broadway, 3rd floor, Tivoli New York
5pm reading | doors 4pm | general seating
▪️FREE | donations welcome
▪️RSVP required: kindly email us and we’ll send back a confirmation.
RSVP: The Zoo Story
▪️ the play runs about an hour and is performed without an intermission
▪️ the 3rd floor is accessible via stairs or elevator (back entrance)
▪️ parking is available in the lot adjacent to village hall, on-street, or in the West Municipal lot past the building, across from the stone church.
Join us at Traghaven Whiskey Pub after the show for cheer and conversation (the old Black Swan!), located @ 66 Broadway, Tivoli.
*member Actor’s Equity

Keith Teller & Michael Rhodes read The Zoo Story at the Black Swan in Tivoli, Nov. 22, 2009
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