A THICK DESCRIPTION OF HARRY SMITH, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, takes a wild ride through the life, work and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith's peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th Century. In the form of an old time radio variety show, the performance uses reworked folk songs, radio vignettes of real, speculative and imagined episodes of Harry Smith's life, foley work, and more to reveal an alternative conception of American identity.

PRESS
"To feel so deeply affected by a work of art, to feel as if it changed you and the way you see the world, means that you just want to grab people by the shoulders and tell them to see it." — Priya Devanesan, The Daily

CREATIVE TEAM
Directed by Nick O’Leary