Eszter Balint: I Hate Memory!

I Hate Memory! is an anti-musical which co-stars the Streets of New York and the Late 20th Century, and features appearances by family, film and fame, immigration, joy, theater and shame, dance floors, open doors, papaya ice cream and the Shah of Iran’s wife. It is a reluctant memoir served on bed of song and dirt, with a punk aperitif and Jimmy Carter for dessert.

Songs co-written by EB and Stew

Eszter Balint  (writer and lead performer) is a singer-songwriter violinist and actor, with four critically-acclaimed solo albums. She grew up as a performing member of the legendary avant-garde theater company Squat Theatre. She has had featured or starring roles in films by Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, The Dead Don’t Die), Woody Allen, and Steve Buscemi, has co-starred alongside David Bowie. She was featured as lead in a six-episode arc in Season 4 of Louis CK’s critically acclaimed TV show Louie.

Jon Pareles of The New York Times has said of her songwriting: “Miss Balint has her own film noir sensibility as a songwriter. She slips inside her characters to project their restlessness and longing.”

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