A séance in the intimate (by off-Broadway standards) Peter Jay Sharp Theater? Max agreed to suspend his disbelief long enough to join Kirill for “The Thin Place,” a haunting new play by Lucas Hnath running through January 5th at Playwrights Horizons. From there they retired to Astoria watering hole and RfU stomping ground The Local […]
Author: Max Raab
Born in newly reunified Berlin in ’89, spent most of his childhood drawing on the walls of Kunsthaus Tacheles while his mother tended bar, wrote Marxist poetry, and had love affairs with bouncers and sculptors who formed his early ideas about bouncing and art. Enrolled at the Akademie der Künste at her urging, but walked out of the first lecture and never went back. Between shifts as a bouncer at legendary Bar 25, made a name for himself carving chunks of the Berlin Wall into giant animal crackers and hosting Shreiereien, a series of performance pieces eventually shut down by noise complaints from the neighbors. Co-founder, with Kirill, of Warum Denn?, a sporadic samizdat newspaper that cataloged Berlin’s burgeoning arts scene. Recently moved to New York on a grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation and began writing reviews to pad his visa application.
Appetite for Deconstruction or A Culinary Guide to ‘Pataphysics: Max and Kirill Review “Now Serving” and “The Infinite Wrench”
Two plays with culinary themes and a pataphysical bent. Two reviewers with appetites for deconstruction and a taste for Alfred Jarry’s science of imaginary solutions. In the theatrical equivalent of a pub crawl, Max and Kirill bicycled from Radiohole’s Now Serving: A Guide to Aesthetic Etiquette in Four Courses at The Collapsible Hole to the […]
An Ontological Argument: Max and Kirill Review “Crushing Baby Animals”
Who better to review a play about two headbutting artists than two headbutting critics? Max Raab and Kirill Antonin Zakharov talk cookies, sadomasochism, and the ontological argument in their joint review of Crushing Baby Animals, an immersive theatre piece running at The Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, Queens through July 21. Max: The problem […]