Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me

See the newest collaboration between the Wooster Group and Eric Berryman. This original work for the theater explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts, via a 1976 record album of the same name recorded and edited by folklorist Bruce Jackson. Toasts are witty, rhyming poems that tell fantastical and obscene stories about legendary street heroes. “The heroes of most of these stories are hard men, criminals, men capable of prodigious sexual feats, bad men, and very clever men (or animals).” – Roger D. Abrahams. Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me features performances by Eric Berryman and drummer Jharis Yokley. Please be advised that this performance contains sexually explicit language.