Iceland
February 26 - March 7 at PS 122

Obie and Bessie Award winning writer-director Roger Guenveur Smith brings his new work-in-progress Iceland to P.S. 122 beginning February. The latest collaboration between Smith and composer Marc Anthony Thompson, Iceland takes us volcano-hopping, from the tropics to the Arctic and back home to Brooklyn to confront man-made disasters. Smith’s seamless movement and poetic language tell a hypnotic story of lovers and love gone awry in a theatrical "meditation on exile, the cataclysmic terror of nature, and the no-less-catastrophic terror of man."

Iceland is presented as a work-in-progress in association with the Joseph Papp Public Theater/ New York Shakespeare Festival (George C. Wolfe, producer); Luna Ray Films and Steven Adams Entertainment. Iceland was read for 651 Arts at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), and staged as a work-in-progress at MCA, Mark Taper Forum and Grand Performances (Los Angeles, CA), Calabash Festival (Jamaica), National Black Arts Festival (Atlanta), and the Joseph Papp Public.

Roger Guenveur Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson have collaborated on Christopher Columbus 1992, Two Fires, and A Huey P. Newton Story, for which they both earned the Obie and Audelco Awards. Smith's televised adaptation of Huey, scored by Thompson, was honored with the Peabody Award. Frederick Douglass Now, Inside the Creole Mafia, and the Bessie Award-winning Radio Mambo, directed by Smith, are also among his work for the stage. Smith will make his directorial debut for the screen this year with Who Killed Bon Marley, produced by Steven Soderbergh(with whom he collaborated on the innovative K Street series for HBO last fall). Roger's other screen credits include King of New York, Deep Cover, All About The Benjamins, Final Destination, Eve’s Bayou and seven films with Spike Lee including Do The Right Thing. The feature film Shade, co-starring Smith, Thandie Newton and Gabriel Byrne, will premiere in March.

Iceland runs February 26 - March 7, Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm with and additional show on Sunday, March 7 at 5pm. Tickets are $20. P.S. 122 is located at 150 First Avenue at 9th St. (accessible from the #6 at Astor Place or the L at First Avenue). For reservations or more information, call 212-477-5288 or visit ps122.org.