Speakeasy Go-go
Welcome to the underground, a sensual discotheque club. Your ticket is an invitation you to indulge in tiny pleasures. Speakeasy Go-go thrusts you out of isolation into the ecstatic joys and gyrations of the dance floor. Choinacky shakes it all: go-go-ing through dreamy sunsets, kinky parties, and curious duct tape outfits with their iconic interdisciplinary style. All are shameless provocations to celebrate our truest selves. Let’s get the party started….
The Consciousness
What does it mean for art if an artist’s consciousness carries on after death? In “The Consciousness,” Reece – a struggling music composition student – tries to extract and then plagiarize a symphony from the digitized consciousness of Theo Price, a dead and (mostly) forgotten composer. But the composer’s creative prowess has not thrived in the afterlife, forcing Reece to reconstruct Theo’s memories.
Say It Ain’t So
In an effort to lift our understanding of the world as it exists to meet the classical texts with newfound fire, Revolution Shakespeare presents the newly commissioned work “Say It Ain’t So” by Nikki Brake-Sillá. This play will be presented in a workshop capacity for Fringe 2021 — staged (virtual) reading, minimal costume, in flux script — to allow the playwright and artistic team freedom to explore the work and…
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…
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