{"id":6457,"date":"2017-08-03T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:01:21","slug":"edgar-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/edgar-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8354\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6457-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/edgaroliver.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/edgaroliver.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/edgaroliver.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6463\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9140552.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edgar Oliver, photo by Pavel Antonov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years.\u00a0 He started out reading his poems and performing monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>From 1988 to 2001 he wrote and staged a series of autobiographical plays &#8211; premiering a new play almost every year in the Club at LaMama on east 4th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Titles include <i>The Seven Year Vacation, The Ghost of Brooklyn, Mosquito Succulence, Motel Blue 19, <\/i>and <i>The Drowning Pages.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>In recent years he has written and performed a series of one man shows that have won much critical acclaim.<\/div>\n<div>These shows include <i>Helen and Edgar<\/i> &#8211; directed by Catharine Burns of The Moth &#8211; and <i>East 10th Street: self-portrait with empty house, In the Park, <\/i>and<i> Attorney Street<\/i> &#8211; all three directed by Randy Sharp of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axiscompany.org\/\">Axis Theatre Company<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>This October and November (2017) Edgar will be performing <i>East 10th Street, In the Park, <\/i>and <i>Attorney Street<\/i> as a trilogy at the Axis Theatre,\u00a0The trilogy is called \u201cEdgar Oliver\u2019s New York Stories\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hermitcoverweb.jpg?resize=209%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hermitcoverweb.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hermitcoverweb.jpg?w=278&amp;ssl=1 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6465\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images.jpeg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images.jpeg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images.jpeg?resize=664%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images.jpeg?resize=696%2C1074&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images.jpeg?resize=272%2C420&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/images.jpeg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/edgaroliver.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years.\u00a0 He started out reading his poems and performing monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980&#8217;s. 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