Listen in as A Beast/A Burden writer and director Billy Ray Brewton, along with the portrayer of Chris Burden, Ben Hethcoat, discuss what distinguishes Burden from idiots on YouTube, sculpture in performance, exploring the creator’s complicated history, why you might have a photo of yourself in front of his work and not even realize it, and how to bring a controversial performance artist’s work to life in a theatrical stage play.

“…we sort of go behind the scenes of what it takes to put some of these performance pieces…and some of them, too, we recreate in our own way…”

A Beast/A Burden

written & directed by Billy Ray Brewton

in rep with Pollock: A Frequency Parable, written & performed by Matthew Marcum

January 3–6, 2019

SoHo Playhouse

tickets: $30, available via SoHo Playhouse’s website ($15 tix available via TodayTix)