Hundred Days
Opening Night: January 4, 2017
Closing: January 15, 2017
Theater: The Public Theater
Hundred Days is the uncensored, exhilarating, and heartrending true story of how Abigail and Shaun Bengson met and fell in love, and how that love unleashed their terror of mortality. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, the Bengsons explore the fundamental question of how to make the most of the time that we have.
Hundred Days was created by Abigail and Shaun Bengson with their collaborators Anne Kauffman and Sarah Gancher.
American folk/rock duo The Bengsons have performed their music worldwide. Theatre and Dance: You’ll Still Call Me By Name (NYLA), Anything That Gives Off Light (Edinburgh Theater Festival), The Place We Built (The Flea), Iphigenia in Aulis (CSC). Upcoming: Sun Down, Yellow Moon (Ars Nova, Women’s Project), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), and a LCT commission.
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January 5, 2017
Say, how would you like to spend 90 minutes with a very married young couple telling you all about how they met and fell in love (at first sight!) and took a crazy road trip together? Among prospects for a thrilling night out, this one would appear to rank with watching slides of your accountant’s vacation in Brussels.
But Shaun and Abigail Bengson, singing songwriters who perform as (yep) the Bengsons, turn out to be surprisingly stimulating company. Their concert-style memoir, Hundred Days, part of this year’s Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater, may suggest a musical variation on an anecdote-laden wedding announcements in a Sunday newspaper.
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