It’s All True

Posted on December 13, 2017 by LaAdmin

February 08 - February 25, 2018

The Downstairs | 66 E 4th Street

Thursday to Saturday at 9pm; Sunday at 4pm

Running Time: 95 minutes

By Object Collection
Written and Directed by Kara Feely
Composed by Travis Just

It's All True is an opera-in-suspension based on the complete live archives of iconic underground band Fugazi. An obsessive leap into 1500 hours of gig detritus made from only incidental text and sounds, none of Fugazi's actual songs. An ear-body-and-mind-flossing: overloaded, maddening, properly funny, and a radical incitement to action.

Commissioned by Borealis - a festival for experimental music. Presented in collaboration with Bergen National Opera. Composition commission with the support by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

"none of Fugazi’s songs actually appear in It’s All True, meaning that the band thankfully won’t be having its Mamma Mia! or American Idiot moment. Instead, Object Collection’s composer Travis Just and writer/director Kara Feely pulled their material solely from stage banter, feedback, guitar re-stringing, and confrontations between Picciotto, MacKaye, and their audiences—a bewildering mix of incidental and interstitial moments that suggest every performance is in a perpetual state of collapse." - Andy Beta, Pitchfork

This is Happening: See the Fugazi Opera That ‘Utterly Stupefied’ the Band

"All of us were both blown away and disoriented by the work – it was well beyond anything we had anticipated"
-Guy Picciotto, Fugazi

| Click to read the full statement from Fugazi |