Tyson vs. Ali OFF-BROADWAY REVIEWS

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WSJ
EXETUNT
EW
AMNY

Opening Night:: January 3, 2014
Closing:: January 25, 2014

Theater: 3LD Art & Technology Center / 80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, 10006

Synopsis:

Harrowing and unpredictable, TYSON vs. ALI brings the debate heard in hundreds of barbershops across America to life – placing these two giants in the ring together in a way no one has previously imagined. A volatile combination of dance, theater, and new-media stagecraft, the palpable emotional and physical experience of boxing is examined through the larger-than-life personas of Iron Mike and The Greatest. With choreography by Laura K. Nicoll and script by Frank Boudreaux, leather hits flesh for 9 rounds of action as the boxers spar with each other, interpreting these men and their myths.

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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF Tyson vs. Ali

A Dream Fight Made Real Onstage
Charles Isherwood

January 7, 2014: The sweat, the combativeness and even the body blows feel mighty real, but the fight itself is pure fantasy in Tyson vs. Ali, a sleek mixed-media meditation on a boxing bout that never was, and never could have been. Currently bobbing and weaving around a simulated ring at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, the production is conceived and directed by Reid Farrington, who deftly splices together video footage and live performance to offer a prismatic take on a theoretical matchup of Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali, two of the great names in boxing history.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW OF Tyson vs. Ali

Dream Bout at Last, in a Ring Performance
Pia Catton

January 7, 2014: It is one of the most enduring questions in boxing: Who would win if Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson could face off? In their primes at different times, the heavyweight champions never met in the ring. A multimedia performance opening Friday at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, Tyson vs. Ali, imagines what might have been.
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EXETUNT REVIEW OF Tyson vs. Ali

Tyson vs. Ali at 3LD Arts & Technology Center
Molly Grogan

January 7, 2014: Prizefighters aren’t usually revered for the richness of their interior lives. It’s a stereotype that Tyson vs. Ali wants to put on the ropes. Kicking off the 2014 edition of PS 122’s COIL festival, this production from 3-Legged Dog knows how to throw a punch, in more ways than one.
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