Under A Montana Moon at the Performance Factory

'The Performance Factory - The Garment District Theater' - the newly built professional theater venue in midtown Manhattan - kicks off its first season with Under A Montana Moon, a mime show created and performed by Bill Bowers, playing from the 3 - 18 Dec 2005.

Under A Montana Moon: Through the medium of mime, the play takes place in the bucolic American Western frontier and portrays how 'silence' as a force affects us all: to remain silent, to be silenced, and to silence someone else.

Under A Montana Moon is currently on tour in the western U.S. with shows in cities throughout Colorado and Montana, and travels to New York City for a limited three-week engagement.

Margo Jefferson of the New York Times writes, "To watch Bill Bowers' collection of silent stories, Under A Montana Moon, is to see the technical elements of a style that brings Marcel Marceau readily to mind, joined to the American West.... Mime can be wonderful--the air between him and us was his palette."

Bill Bower's is recognised as a master Mime artist having trained under Marcel Marceau.

"To launch a brand new theater with an artist of Bill's caliber, along with his unique expertise in mime, is an artistic director's dream," says Janice Orlandi, artistic director of Performance Factory - The Garment District Theater. "Bill performs this show all over the U.S., but never in New York. This NYC premiere is an example of the work we want to produce here and even invite at Performance Factory."