Performance Space 122

Named one of the TOP TEN PLAYS of 2009 (New York Post and Time Out New York)

"The funniest onstage nudity in recent memory."
-Variety

"A sharply observed, classically constructed and written show by Derek Ahonen. ...Considerably smart and complex. ...What I particularly loved about the show is that Ahonen takes these four people and their dreams serious."
-The New York Post

"The young company's deep commitment and contagious exuberance brings to mind the vitality that distinguished the early Off-Off Broadway work of artists like Sam Shepard only a generation ago." -The New Yorker

"The happiest surprise of the season. Ahonen has written full, complex characters, and the committed cast approaches them with sincerity and heart. This is exciting work, fresh and refreshing: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side makes you want to follow the Amoralists wherever they go next." -Time Out New York


"Fast, funny, raucous and in-your-face. I'll certainly follow the Amoralists' work from now on." - NY Post

An extraordinary gathering of young idealists live as a modern day urban tribe above a vegan restaurant in NYC. Billy, Dawn, Dear and Wyatt are an extended sexual family battling their fears and addictions in order to live their utopian dream. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side is a celebration of love and the search for human grandness.

Run time: 2 hours 45 minutes

"Tune into your curious side, baby"
-Dawn, Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side

Join us following the August 8th evening performance for a special one-night-only talk back discussion with the Amoralists!

This Coney Island soap opera - complete with mob heavies, ragingly flirtatious women and a lothario mailman, has a knockabout physicality that grabs your attention. But what holds it is the working-class poetry of Derek Ahonen's script. Mr. Ahonen brings the populist instincts of a born entertainer. He might be a contender yet.”
-The New York Times

"Playwright Derek Ahonen's exuberant follow-up, (To The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side), Happy in the Poorhouse has the same profusion of vulgarity, violence and overabundant wit. There's enough in Poorhouse to make any evening rich."
-Time Out New York

"My gut is that part of the future of American theatre rests with these guys, which is why I keep coming back to see what they're cooking up."
-NYTheatre.com

"This gleefully crass comedy by the Amoralists is like a shotgun blast, with a charming cast, a favorable rate of funny jokes, and an undercurrent of genuine warmth."
-The New Yorker

Paulie "The Pug" is a Coney Island dreamer... Just one MMA fight away from the big time. If only he could keep his wife from screwing her ex-husband, his brother-in-law from going to the slammer and his best friend from taking a bite out of his neck, he'd be on top of the world. A comedy full of weak wrists and strong hearts, Happy in the Poorhouse is an unsanitized story of love and sex that will make you think twice about not pulling out!

Run Time: 2 hours

ADULT: $40 PER TICKET PER SHOW
STUDENT: $20 PER TICKET PER SHOW

The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
Downstairs
JULY 29 - AUGUST 9
THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, MONDAYS, @ 7PM
SUNDAYS @ 5PM
TUESDAY AUGUST 3RD @ 1PM

Happy in the Poorhouse
Downstairs
AUGUST 12 - 23
THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS, MONDAYS @ 7PM
SUNDAYS @ 5PM
TUESDAY AUGUST 17TH @ 1PM

The Amoralists: Two shows for $70:
Package holders enjoy 1 ticket to both "The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side" and "Happy in the Poorhouse" both presented by The Amoralists at PS122 in August 2010.

Note: PS122 Passports do not apply to any performances of The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side or Happy in the Poorhouse