Language Instruction profiles the late comedian Andy Kaufman in a suitably Kaufmanesque fashion. Elevator Repair Service often inhabits a universe where the ghost of Andy Kaufman — whose strange and remarkable career ranged from stand-up clubs to Taxi to the professional wrestling ring — would feel right at home. Language Instruction unwinds as a dynamic semi-narrative that puts a seemingly hapless Kaufman on stage with a team of bizarro-Berlitz instructors, whose mission, for some reason, is to teach badly fractured Dutch, German, Japanese and pure nonsense to whomever will listen.

PAST PERFORMANCES

• 1993 Performance Space 122
• 1993 Here Theater
• 1994 Here Theater
• 1999 Flea Theater

PRESS

New York Post 10 Feb 1994
Kaufman's Bastard Child by Donna Coe

New York Daily News 31 Jan 1994
Shtik It to the Guy by Michael Musto

CAST

• Bradley Glenn
• Rinne Groff
• James Hannaham
• Leo Marks
• Susie Sokol
• Colleen Werthmann

Wendy Johnson created the role played by Colleen Werthmann

• Lighting by Clay Shirky
• Sound by Blake Koh
• Choreography by Katherine Profeta and ERS
• Costumes by Colleen Werthmann
• Stage Managed by Nan Strauss