THE MAN WHO ATE MICHAEL ROCKEFELLERARCLIGHT THEATRE
152 West 71st Street
New York, NY 10023
THIS PRODUCTION HAS CLOSED.
OFF-BROADWAY SHOW INFORMATION
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday 8:00pm, Thursday 8:00pm, Friday 8:00pm, Saturday 2:00pm & 8:00pm, Sunday 3:00pm & 7:30pmOFFICIAL WEBSITE
www.dogrunrep.com/RUNNING TIME
1 hr. 10 min.GENRE
Off-Broadway PlayPERFORMANCE DATES
Opening: February 9, 2011Closing: March 11, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Click here for maps, directions, restaurant and hotel recommendations, and more at this venue.SYNOPSIS - ABOUT THE SHOW
The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller
takes a startling and surprisingly humorous, upside-down view of what
happens when the Western world intrudes on an ancient, so-called
primitive culture, telling the story from the native peoples'
point-of-view: set among the Asmat tribe of New Guinea, the play
explores the still-unsolved disappearance in 1961 of Michael C.
Rockefeller, the 23-year-old son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller
and a celebrated anthropologist who collected artifacts from the Asmat
culture during two expeditions there.
The Asmat culture - which developed for thousand of years in isolation before being discovered in the mid-20th century, and whose woodcarving traditions are now world-renowned - expresses its revered, centuries-old spiritual relationship between the living and their dead ancestors in rituals such as head-hunting and cannibalism.
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