Links Hall presents a very special performance by Tim Miller

Advance registration STRONGLY recommended – to make reservations please call Links Hall at 773.281.0824

Tim Miller
Us
Friday & Saturday, July 25 & 26, 8pm
$15

Us ricochets between a love affair with Broadway musicals crosscut to an exploration of home, exile and the injustices lesbian and gay couples face in the good ol' USA. Us is a funny, sassy and pissed-off exploration of American contradictions as the piece careens from memories of a ten year old's plan to flee to Canada to escape the war in Vietnam, to a meditation on why a Southern California child spoke in an English accent, to a surreal tug-of-war at the edge of America as the Niagara Falls rushes between his legs.

Tim Miller

Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed solo performer. Hailed for its humor and passion, Miller's solo theater works have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, an anthology of his performances and essays which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. Since 1990, Miller has taught performance in the theater department at UCLA. Miller has also taught performance at NYU and the Claremont School of Theology. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. hometown.aol.com/millertale

Timelier than ever…Us boils with Miller's distinctive mix of anger and humor, literate intelligence, and rock-star stage presence. Moving with relentless energy around the space, including the seats… Miller is here acerbic, sweet, self-righteous, exhibitionist, and celebratory. -Albert Williams, Chicago Reader

…a droll and engaging new show that blends wit and emotionalism with a coherent and radical political message -Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

These performances are in conjunction with Tim Miller’s week long intensive workshop at Links Hall entitled Charged Bodies/Borders: A Solo Performance Intensive, taking place Monday-Thursday, July 21-24, 1pm-5pm; Saturday, July 26, 11am-3pm; with a culminating Student Performance Sunday, July 27, 7pm. Tickets to the performance on July 27 are $5.

Tim Miller