The Race of the Ark Tattoo

The Race of The Ark Tattoo is a lecture, a game, a ghost story, an autopsy of white male poverty, a ritual invested in putting the dead to rest but only after first waking them up. One teller at the center lost inside a tragicomic purgatory. And it's a flea market the size of a folding table.

Race is a dangerous bargain. One might remember something they'd hoped to forget, might get a little too close to someone radically different from them, might laugh while another is holding back sadness, might remember what's possible in the act of being together and bearing witness.

And it's an Obie award winning play by W. David Hancock originally performed in the late 90s in the gallery space at the old PS122, before it played in parking garages and rehearsal studios across the country - as a kind of mysterious growth on the side of a LORT theater.

This revival of Ark is performed by Fisher Neal, and co-created by Sunder Ganglani, Fisher Neal, and Kristen Robinson. The creators came together for no other reason but to remember what theater is and can be in its most essential and intimate state.

Host or Publisher Fisher Neal