Not Yet Rated: An Improvised Movie
In a world filled with movies… this one has not been made. Using movie tropes and your suggestions this elite group will embark on a mission some of them may not survive- to create a completely improvised movie right before your eyes! Action, Horror, Sci-fi, Western, it’s all on the table in a movie you definitely won’t see in theaters! The heroes and villains, the twists and turns, the special effects,…
Into the Absurd: A Virtually Existential Dinner Conversation
For the last 16 years, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium has staged unique interpretations of classic absurdist plays including Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs, Rhinoceros, Exit the King and Franz Kafka’s The Castle along with fresh interpretations of classic works The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams and Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge. In June 2020, we began gathering virtually with creators and artists around the table to delve…
Soundscape Visualz
Come join me and immerse into a world of sound where emotion is evoked, pushed and pulled in so many different directions. Stories told but through music in which it translates, bodies in motion curating moves and rhythms connecting to what’s in the room around them allowing sound to take hold, take space, create change and build a sense of understanding of one’s self and those around them.
Sketch Buffet: A Sketch Comedy Showcase
It’s like Saturday Night Live, but it’s Friday, it’s live right in front of you, and Alec Baldwin is nowhere to be seen! Come check out some of Philly’s best sketch comedy groups put up an hour of sketch hilarity you won’t see anywhere else!
Of A Feather
An exploration of our collective human experiences from the past several months. Also a show about birds. We share a planet with them, they are always present in every part of our lives, but how often do we spend time with them? Join us for a dance-theatre-music show about processing, healing and observing. We are here together: us and the birds.
Only Bones v.1.6
Lanky loidlings.Squishy Schloompings. Spiky Spa-doo-dlings. Marina Cherry squeaks, zooms, and tiptoes through a micro-space. Fragmenting pieces of a spunky personal universe puddle over the stage for her solo performance, Only Bones v1.6. Intriguingly engulfing, sporadically disturbing, this quirky conglomeration creates a mishmash of corporal and cerebral manipulations- a follow-up project to the original Only Bones (v.1.0) created by Thomas Monckton. Bursting the bubbles of banality, in a balance between theatrical…
On Buried Ground
In the wake of continued loss artists Emily Bate and Shayla-Vie Jenkins each present new meditations in the Christ Church Burial Ground. Each work, sited in one of the oldest resting places in Philadelphia, considers grief and communal gatherings of public healing. Bate and Jenkins each acknowledge the burial ground as a tender and troubled place that holds layers of the city’s history — casting it as a space that…
No Diggity: Improv Inspired By Old School Hip Hop and R&B
No Diggity host, Tia Kemp, curates a playlist of old school hip hop and R&B music videos which inspire the hilarious scenes. Audience members will be quizzed on their old school knowledge. Guess correctly and you might get to pick which video inspires the cast! Early reviews include: “Never trust a big butt & a smile, but trust this show gon be off the hizzy!” – Alonzo from high school…
S.E.L.F.
S.E.L.F. A virtual, interactive, autobiographical, roust about S.E.L.F… MY-S.E.L.F. How does who we are and how we think about S.E.L.F and how others perceive us affect who we are and how we function in the world. This virtual roust of S.E.L.F will take you on a wild ride of reflection and meditation on who you think you are inside and out. Reflection. Assumption. Perception. REALITY…THE REALITY OF ONES S.E.L.F. This…
Nuptial Blitz
Sitting on a couch in Portland, OR I flipped through my brother’s wedding album, fascinated by the story being told through these images, clearly directed by the photographer. I began researching wedding photography and became obsessed with how certain positions and gestures appeared so frequently. For example, the suit-wearing partner standing behind the gown-wearing partner and hugging ‘her’ waist (a trope I call “The Protector”). Due to my personal views…
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