A tree when no moon shines
She left behind a body a mile back: large, imposing, almost completely hidden in the reeds. The crickets were loud. They would tell her secrets to anyone who would listen. She stood now in overgrown grass, looking back at what was home, in the tandem tension between the past and present, between the sweet smell of honeysuckle and of red dirt clinging to her legs and bared feet. She remembered…
/red room/
There’s a room and everything is red.“You mean you’ve been locked up in this stupid room since yesterday making nothing?”They’re painting, they’ve been painting, and everything is red.“Yes.”it’s them it’s them it’s themit’s–everything is–They stare at the self-portrait, and everything is red. /red room/ is: a live reading, an interactive gallery, a world-premiere; a place to reveal, find, destroy, and let go. /red room/ is a multi-meta-physical experience encompassing poetry,…
A Scar is Born
A Scar is Born is the humorous story of one misfit’s hopeful audition. She reviews for the casting director important moments of her life and her journey from France to America. In the face of rejection, she never gives up her passion for performing the music of words and language. A cycle of songs recounting life in Marseille, Paris, New York and Florida, intertwined with sketches about the absurdity of…
707 Hazardous Moves
707 Hazardous MovesWritten and Performed by Whit MacLaughlinBased on A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance by Stèphane Mallarmé. Premiered in 2021. A veteran experimental theatre director takes to the stage with words, moves, and compulsive counting to expose his obsessive love affair with a poem that gives zero love in return. Whit MacLaughlin throws caution to the wind. He fell painfully in love with Stéphane Mallarmé’s puzzling poem A…
5 locks 5 keys
An evening of short plays.Consciousness collapses to dreaming. Words take you hostage. Uncle Blues in a Buick Love Luv Written and Directed by Dennis Moritz.Actors: Beverly Gunn, Effie Kammer, Daralyse Lyons and Paul Prozi (aka Wharton Tract).
‘City Sway’ Film Premiere
Chill Room Records Presents: ‘City Sway’ Premiere Come join us at the premiere viewing for the short film, City Sway. Trinidadian-styled food by Candice’s will be provided with donations welcomed. You don’t wanna miss it! Doors will open at 9:15 at the Yellow Bicycle Theatre located across from Love Park at 1435 Arch St. Fl. 2, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Tickets are $10 online; $15 at the door About the Film:…
Bugboro
Grab the kids and get in, we’re going into town! Come visit Bugboro, the buzziest, busiest bug colony this side of the Schuylkill, and meet the big personalities of our tiny community. We’re a small, simple settlement built by the bugs who live here, from Momma Mary Spider and her home-grown hand-picked market, to Gillian Grasshopper’s library shack of stories, to Stinky Stinkbug’s Tiny Trash Truck, to a slew of…
Circus Phantasmagoria
What transpires in the human mind during the final seconds of life? Step into Circus Phantasmagoria, an odyssey into the profound mysteries of life, death, and the boundless universe of the mind. This immersive and interactive experience, created by Alterra Productions in collaboration with the Friends of Laurel Hill, is an invitation to wander the labyrinthine corridors of the human mind via the physical pathways of Laurel Hill East Cemetery….
Banana
Is he man? Or is he banana? The Cavendish banana is stuck in a shipping box, with only his sexy, more flavorful cousin Gros Michel to help him escape. But does the Cavendish even want to leave? Stand-up, physical comedy, magic, striptease and more in this OffFest-nominated “comedic tour de force” (The Interrobang), a solo absurdist clown show exploring themes of isolation, denial, and human connection, using comedy as a…
Cheetah Banks
Treading the peripheries of narrative and performance, Cheetah Banks is a 60-minute solo where three different characters embody codes of power, gender, and desire using dance, movement, sound, and objects, paving a path that is equal parts absurd, harrowing, and unpredictable. Born in Florida in the 1980s, Cheetah Banks has gone to Barcelona to visit, but since their driver’s license has expired, cannot return to Florida. Cheetah’s sister asks what…
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