In conjunction with the exhibition, The Lunar Landing, by Helen Oliver Adelson, Edgar Oliver, a playwright, poet, and performer who has lived and worked in New York City for the past thirty-five years will perform The Hermit, a monologue, on two evenings, Sundays, Sep 22 and 29, 2013. With a very special opening performance to celebrate the work of Helen Oliver Adelson on Sunday, Sep 29 only: Kembra Pfahler presents the Kats of Karen Black.

Edgar Oliver’s recent spoken memoir, Helen and Edgar, staged at Theater 80 on St. Mark’s Place last fall, described a childhood geography inhabited by Helen, Edgar, and their mother Louise in 1960s Savannah. As Ben Brantley described it in The New York Times, “You might say they lived in their own private Transylvania, a place that has nothing to do with the real country and everything to do with a state of mind in which shadows always threaten to claim you.” This is a place evoked in Helen’s paintings and set pieces, many often made for Edgar’s productions. He notes in Helen and Edgar, “Never were there three more lost children than Mother, Helen and me.” Eventually, Helen and Edgar would run away to New York, where they went on to found Pompeii together. Edgar has noted of his sister’s work, “You enter a world where distance is pulling you away in many directions into the unknown.”