Get Your Ass In the Water and Swim Like Me 2022

See the newest collaboration between The Wooster Group and Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me. This original work for the theater explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts, via a record album of the same name recorded and edited by folklorist Bruce Jackson (LP cover below).

The Wooster Group/Berryman collaboration features performances by Eric Berryman and drummer Jharis Yokley. Kate Valk directs. The production design is by Elizabeth LeCompte, with sound design by Eric Sluyter and video design by Irfan Brkovic.