ArtsEmerson Presents 'The Old Man and the Old Moon'

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage announces "The Old Man and the Old Moon" by New York's Pig Pen Theatre Co. for a one?week limited engagement.

Performances take place November 19 through 23, 2014 at the Emerson/Paramount Center Main Stage (559 Washington Street in Boston's historic Theatre District). Tickets, from $25?$75, are on sale now at www.artsemerson.org or by phone at 617?824?8400. Group, student, and senior discounts are available.

The endlessly imaginative PigPen Theatre Co. comes to Boston with a luminously lo?fi spectacle that elevates traditional storytelling to high art. Their fantastical, song?filled tale takes us to the end of the world when an old man abandons his duty of filling the moon with liquid light to search for his missing wife. With a rollicking array of ever?changing characters, inventive theatrical effects and an infectious contemporary folk sound, these seven young actor?musicians transform the seemingly ordinary into sheer wonder.

The award?winning PigPen Theatre Co. began creating their unique brand of music, film and theatre as freshmen at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 2007. Their original plays "The Nightmare Story," "The Mountain Song" and "The Old Man and The Old Moon" have been produced Off?Broadway and around the US, earning them accolades from The New York Times, Time Out New York, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and The Boston Globe.