Martin Dockery in The Bike Trip
Nominated in 2009 for two IT Awards: Outstanding Solo Performer and Outstanding Short Play for his critically-acclaimed work,
The Surprise,
Martin Dockery
is a frequent performer in New York's storytelling scene, appearing on
the stages of The Moth, Speakeasy, The Liar Show, Told, Risk!, LES
Stories, and Sideshow Goshko.
His previous theatrical monologues (developed with director Jean-Michele Gregory)
Wanderlust and
The Surprise,
received critical success in New York as well as in San Francisco,
Orlando, London, Toronto, and Winnipeg and garnered numerous awards.
Dockery was also a co-creator of the play
C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which ran on Broadway as
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (heard of it?) and is a seven-time finalist in The Moth's bi-annual Grandslam Storytelling Championship.
This month Dockery returns to Off-Off-Broadway and we look forward with great interest to his newest solo work,
The Bike Trip, debuting on February 25 at the Kraine Theatre as a part of the FRIGID Festival. Martin describes
The Bike Trip
as is his quest "to understand why the drug LSD has enthralled and
terrified so many thousands of people." On his search to uncover the
nature of the psychedelic experience, Dockery journeys through the
psychedelic scenes of San Francisco, India and Switzerland. To
replicate history's first ever acid trip, he recreates the bizarre
bicycle ride of a Swiss pharmacologist 65 years ago that unexpectedly
introduced the world to LSD and altered the way millions of people
perceive the nature of consciousness. "The public perception of LSD is
frozen in a 1960s tie-dyed haze, and yet its use is as prevalent - and
as secretive - as ever," Dockery explains.
The Bike Trip tells a very personal tale as it attempts to look anew at this most powerful of all psychotropic substances...like
The Surprise,
it's an autobiographical storytelling show, performed without a script,
making each night unique." After FRIGID, Dockery will then bring to
festivals in Fresno, Phoenix, Orlando, London, Winnipeg, Victoria,
& Vancouver among others.
For more information on Martin check out his website
www.martindockery.com.
For tickets to
The Bike Trip go to the FRIGID Festival website
www.FRIGIDnewyork.info.____________________
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