'Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me' Adapts 'Toasts' for the Stage

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 29, 2024

A new show from The Wooster Group adapts Toasts, an historic Black American oral storytelling technique, for the stage. "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" stars Eric Berryman, and is inspired by a folklore record of the same name from the 1970s. Berryman plays a late-night radio DJ, who tells stories alongside live drumming from Jharis Yokley. The show is running at The Performing Garage through February 3. Berryman and director Kate Valk join to discuss their production.

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