Your Hair Looked Great (2017)

 
 

DESCRIPTION
A wild mashup of motivational speeches, keynote presentations and TED-style talks turned on their head, Your Hair Looked Great asks how American society defines success, and just what counts as a life well lived.

CREDITS
Abrons Arts Center - World Premiere Production - NYC, 2017
Made by Tiny Little Band
Text by Jerry Lieblich
Direction by Stefanie Abel Horowitz
Featuring Janice Amaya, Alex Hanna, Emma Meltzer, Ryann Weir, Merlin Whitehawk
Set by Brittney Vasta
Lights by Amith Chandrashaker
Sound and music by Trevor New

Developed with Bix Bettwy and Agnes Borinsky


PRESS
”[Lieblich’s] ear is uncannily precise…A fugue on emptiness, a theme-and-variations composition on the meaninglessness of our quest for success…There's quite a bit of extremely good writing, and as a production, Great is a lovely object: beautifully performed, smartly scored by ambient composer Trevor New and well staged.”
-Helen Shaw, TimeOut NY

“Remarkable…Subtle magic... It ever so gently leads its audience members into a truly uncomfortable decision: Distrust one’s own life choices or distrust the charming and apparently successful actors on the stage…The impressive ache of this show, then, is its structural admission that there might not be any failsafe pathway toward success—or, indeed, that success might not be achievable in the first place.”
-Corinne Donly, Culturebot