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SOHO TELEVISION

RICHARD FOREMAN'S WORK TO PREMIER ON SOHO TV IN MAY

On the Mondays of May 15 and 22, SOHO TV will show Richard Foreman's OUT OF THE BODY TRAVEL in two parts  as part of its regular series, 9 PM on Manhattan Cable and Teleprompter's Channel 10. The program is one of only two works which the prolific heater director as made for television, and it is he first time it has been cablecast. Part 2, which will be shown on May 22, is followed by a substantial commentary by the artist on his work. The commentary was taken from an interview by the drama critic Michael Kirby, and is accompanied by images from Foreman's plays, manifestos and scripts.

OUT OF THE BODY TRAVEL, like all for Foreman's work, is an episodic, richly textured play. In it Foreman places his characters in a series of situations that are related more by their visual and auditory elements than by other conventions of continuity. Produced in 1976 in black and white videotape, the work displays Foreman's sensitivity to the hermetic, concentrating properties of the medium in his use of simple, relatively static shots and periods of silence. 

Richard Foreman has directed two Broadway plays and received acclaim for his directions of the Bertold Brecht/Kurt Weill THREE-PENNY OPERA at Joe Papp's NY Shakespeare Festival Theater. But his principal reputation stems from his original work with his "Ontological Hysteric Theater," which he founded in 1968 and with which he has produced, written and directed more than fourteen original plays.

SOHO TV is a project of the Artists Television Network, Inc. which is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, please call 212 254-4978 or 212 966-2083.

THE ARTISTS TELEVISION NETWORK, INC. 152 WOOSTER ST. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10012 212-254-4978