A reading of a play by Edgar Oliver with sets by Helen Oliver

“Edgar is, without doubt, the greatest raconteur in the world,” says George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.

Howl Arts is pleased to present a reading of The Seven Year Vacation, by renowned poet and playwright Edgar Oliver, starring Carine Montbertrand, Angela Rogers, Michael Laurence, Alexandra Wolkowicz, and Edgar Oliver.

Edgar Oliver (b. October 31, 1956) is a legend of the Lower East Side and has lived there since 1977. Oliver made his debut in New York City’s Pyramid Club in the mid 1980s and is a mainstay at La MaMa. He has written at least a dozen plays, including The Poetry Killer, The Ghost of Brooklyn, When She Had Blood Lust, The Master of Monstrosity, I Am a Coffin, My Green Hades, and Chop Off Your Ear. Oliver has published two poetry collections, A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There, Summer, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants.