Event

Necromancers of the Public Domain

Each month, THEATER OF THE APES plucks a long forgotten volume from the shelves of the New York Society Library and resurrects it as a low budget variety show.
COMING UP:
Physical Training for Women by Japanese Methods (1904)
by H. Irving Hancock

FROM THE BOOK:

One of the phrases that should be stricken from the English language is "the weaker sex". After a long experience in Japanese athletics, the writer has no patience with women who consider that merely because of their sex they should be weaker than men. In Japan, the women are not weaker, and in this country they have no right to be..

WITH:

Iossy Freud
Milo Kotis
Quintin Harris
Shelton Pritchard Lindsay
Lisa Lim
Pearl Rhein
Nate Shaw
Stephanie Summerville
Paul Young

Hosted by Queen of the Apes, Ayun Halliday (No Touch Monkey! / The East Village Inky)

Read the full text here: https://archive.org/details/trainingphysical00hancrich
Relive the glory of Necromancers Past here: http://www.theater-of-the-apes.com/current-productions/past-productions/necromancers-public-domain-past-editions/
Bio: Theater of the Apes is an East Harlem-based theater company dedicated to affordable ticket prices, fresh takes, and the comedy of existence. Join the Apes this holiday season for the 10th anniversary of Greg Kotis' The Truth About Santa, a co-production of Theater of the Apes and The Tank. Human see, Human do