Get Out Next Week: Sister Taking Nap @ OtB

Wynne Greenwood in Sister Taking Nap: a meditation on human evolution. Photo courtesy of On the Boards.

Wynne Greenwood's solo electro-pop trio Tracy + the Plastics was one of the most brilliantly conceived and executed performance art projects to come out of the Northwest that we know of, ever. Really--just think of how contorted that last sentence is. Greenwood played all three characters of her band: onstage, she performed as Tracy, interacting with herself (via pre-recorded video) as both of her own backup singers, Nikki Romanos and Cola ("the Plastics"). Her Stranger Genius Award last year was well-deserved, but Greenwood's always been more than Tracy + the Plastics: her performance art and video installations have been seen around the world, from the Tate Modern to the Moscow Biennale. And now she's returning to the stage with Sister Taking Nap: a meditation about human evolution, next week at On the Boards. A work exploring the rather painful-sounding question--"What must we give up in order to survive?"--Greenwood has apparently transformed OtB's entire studio theatre into a mixed-media sculpture gallery/video installation/performance space. The work promises to be a brilliant piece of interactive art.

8 p.m., Weds.-Sat., April 15-18 // On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St. // $18