Former Brattleboro Resident Jason Wachtelhausen returns to the Hooker-Dunham theater with a new autobiographical monologue.
Hello, Goodbye takes listeners on another darkly-comic trip through Wachtelhausen’s warped hall of recollections. With pit-stops at a failed marriage, a nasty addiction, a unique mental breakdown and a tiny village high in Guatemala’s Cuchumatanes mountains, this lively, touching monologue manages to be shocking, sad, laugh-out-loud hilarious and ultimately, uplifting.
Jason Wachtelhausen has written for magazines including Wired, Adbusters, ReadyMade, Skope and Bleed and has been performing spoken word since the early nineties. Recently he’s shared the stage with novelist Elise Miller, gay-disabled-wunderkind Greg Walloch and Comedy Central’s Todd Levin.
He is currently at work on a new monologue which (with Mass and Rendina) he will be taking on a thirteen city tour this Spring. Called, Always Coming Home, this new piece is inspired in large part by the five years he spent in Brattleboro.
While living in Brattleboro Wachtelhausen worked at Mocha Joe’s, the Mole’s Eye, the Winston L. Prouty Center and Meridians Music which he bought, renamed the Dog Museum, and then promptly closed when it became apparent that he, in his own words, “Had no idea how to run a music store.” He's also been a poultry factory worker, meat cutter, fish monger, preschool teacher, award-winning copy writer, bouncer, a doorman, a DJ and spent a few years drunk in Central America.
He lives with his wife Jessina and his daughter Lila May in New York City.
Also on the evening’s bill are Jeremy Rendina, and Brattleboro’s own Tyler Maas.
Jeremy Rendina's films have screened in Los Angeles, Rome, at the Harvard Film Archive, and on various walls in between. He lives in Brooklyn NY with his wife Yvonne and their dog and is co-editor of the literary journal, The NightJar Review. Rendina spent a year in Underhill, Vermont where he began work on his current project, How Snowflakes Sat for their Picture, a documentary of Wilson Bentley, Vermont's Snowflake Man.
Born in rural Ohio, Tyler Maas has received the Thomas J. Benham award for effective speaking, and in 1997 was selected to represent Hampshire College at the Glasscock poetry competition. Called, “The only living poet that doesn’t make me want to punch somebody in the face,“ by Jason Wachtelhausen, Maas is currently serving a sentence of karmic dept in Brattleboro, VT.. He may never leave.
HELLO, GOODBYE
December 17
8:00 pm
Hooker-Dunham Theater
139 Main St. Brattleboro, VT
(802) 254-7847
$7