Who: Martin Dockery’s
Wanderlust: From Here to Timbuktu
When: Thursday-Saturday,
January 22-24, 2015 • 8:00pm
Where: Intersections Series in The Forum at Diana Wortham
Theatre
Ticket Prices: Regular $28; Student $15; Child $15
Student Rush
day-of-the-show (with valid ID) $10
$ 2 discount available
for Fringe Festival Freak Pass holders.
Inquire at box office.
Info/Tickets: Box
Office (828) 257-4530 ·
www.dwtheatre.com
Artist Website: www.martindockery.com
WANDERLUST: FROM HERE
TO TIMBUKTU IS MARTIN DOCKERY’S ODE TO TRAVEL, EPIPHANY, AND THE HUMAN
SPIRIT – WITH A THREE NIGHT FRINGE
FESTIVAL RUN IN THE FORUM AT DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE, THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY,
JANUARY 22-24
Winner of “Best of Fest” awards at North America’s two
biggest fringe festivals in Winnipeg and Edmonton, Martin Dockery’s Wanderlust:
From Here to Timbuku transports audiences from a world of daily grind to a
5-month solo trek across West Africa, with three performances in The Forum at
Diana Wortham Theatre, January 22-24, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. The show is part of the theatre’s Intersections Series and is a special
event in conjunction with the 2015 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival.
In this comical, multi-award winning, true-life odyssey, playwright and performer Martin Dockery brings listeners
along with him on his own seemingly directionless journey when he quits his dead-end job as an office
temp in New York City and buys a one-way ticket to an unknown land on another
continent. It’s a voyage that takes him from a stingray-infested island off the
coast of Africa, through the Sahara, to a barren hut outside of Timbuktu, as
Dockery believes that fate will necessarily reward him with an epiphany — any
epiphany at all. “As rivetingly hilarious as they
are,” says Ottawa’s Fully Fringed,
“Dockery’s stories also illustrate many basic, beautiful, uplifting human
truths.”
There is no script for Wanderlust;
rather it is a tale told extemporaneously each night. Dockery uses a full stage
to perform the story while simultaneously narrating it. “He acts out his
adventures (as opposed to simply recounting them) with enormous energy,
immediacy, and physicality,” describes NYTheatre.com. “He brings his
experiences entirely to life, supplying a thrill that feels more actual than
vicarious.” The audience is taken along for the ride
as Dockery negotiates the terrors, the absurdities, and the giddy moments
inherent in traveling far from home, on an ever-more-desperate search for love,
meaning, and a compass.
Wanderlust: From
Here to Timbuktu is the first of six (so far) solo storytelling pieces created
by New York performer Martin Dockery. After five years of honing his short-form
storytelling craft at open mics all around New York City, Dockery was
approached by Jean-Michele Gregory with the idea of creating an full-length
solo piece. After a series of workshop performances, Dockery took Wanderlust on the road in 2009, and the
show has been a success ever since. In the past four years, Wanderlust has been performed over 200
times in cities all across the US, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Wanderlust has garnered innumerable 4
and 5 star reviews, plus “Best of Fest” awards at North America’s two biggest
fringe festivals, Winnipeg and Edmonton. In 2011, Wanderlust also won the prestigious Critics Circle Award at the
world’s 2nd largest theater festival, the Adelaide Fringe.
Martin
Dockery’s Asheville performances are made possible by Media Sponsor WCQS.
Tickets are available through the
Diana Wortham Theatre box office at www.dwtheatre.com
and (828) 257-4530.
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