What happens after a dream doesn’t go quite as planned? For Sam Kissajukian, it’s finding another one.
Created and skillfully performed by dynamic Australian talent Sam Kissajukian, American Repertory Theater continues 300 Paintings live and in person at Farkas Hall at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts through Saturday, October 25. This cleverly executed production runs 90 minutes with no intermission. Click here for more information and for tickets.
300 Paintings carefully balances insight and humor in a zig zag autobiographical and educational journey about making a new start when your initial dream goes awry. Allowing the audience into his captivating methodology and thought patterns, Sam intimately reflects on this time with a step-by-step skewed and spontaneous comic logic that might be farfetched if it wasn’t for his unwavering confidence. Warmly yet dryly tracing out his often outlandish and complex ideas, you will marvel at his resourcefulness as Sam reflects upon his choices in the aftermath of his decisions. For example, Sam takes apart the art of doing business through the Museum of Modernia in such an interesting and unpredictable manner that one might wonder why no one has ever thought of that before. As Sam reflects, ‘A manic person will never do something the way you expect them to do it.’
Part comedy and part fascinating art exhibition, this personal portrait has a sense of urgency as it tackles art, comedy, business, and mental health with sincerity and self deprecation while keeping the majority of his zany storytelling lighthearted and humorous.
300 Paintings also contains a sense of adventure, gusto and discovery as the story unfolds behind these 300 Paintings. As Sam states, ‘No one would ever expect’ and I do think that is a deft description of this entire journey. With a mix of humor and surprise, Sam shows that discovering what you are meant to do is as significant as the journey toward it.
American Repertory Theater continues 300 Paintings live and in person at Farkas Hall at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts through Saturday, October 25. Click here for more information and for tickets.