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Elliott Sharp and Tea Alagic, Binibon
Originally aired on
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp teamed up with director Tea Alagic and sci-fi writer
Jack Womack to create Binibon, a work of music-theatre and
alternative history that tells a distinctly New York City story. Featuring a cast of four actors playing multiple roles and Sharp performing live on guitars, saxophones and electronics, Binibon - named after the East Village cafe in which Sharp spent a great deal of time - recalls the nexus of artists, musicians and bohemian characters that peopled a grittier moment in New York's history, one in which the young Sharp was intimately involved. It centers around the notorious
1981 murder of the waiter Richard Adan by Jack Henry Abbott, paroled killer and author of In The Belly of the Beast. Amplifying this legend is the fact that Norman Mailer championed Abbott and assisted in getting him released from prison.









