When: June 14–16
Where: The Plaxall Gallery, 5–25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
Price: $25
Tags: #theatre, #surreal, #inthesurround, #interactive, #promenade, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
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PEACE, A MASSACRE, AND THE UMBRELLA, supported by Long Island City Artists, Inc. and the Plaxall Gallery, aims to question the idea of us versus the other. The production is directed by Ali Jamali with a cast featuring Isaac J. Conner, Marie Dinolan, Louise Heller, Ali Jamali, Feryal Kilisli, Jonas Kobberdal, Andy Lachman, Anuj Parikh, Giselle Samson, and Danny Schwarz.
In the first play of the trilogy, THE ELBISNOPSRES!, breaking news about a distant civilization turns the prosaic tedium of a middle-class households day to a tempest in a teapot. Their attempt to overcome their fear-inducing ignorance by turning to their limited resources results in a farcical event.
In the second play, A MASSACRE, discovering a pile of dead bodies in the middle of an office, work colleagues become embroiled in repetitive, predetermined, and nonnegotiable discussions.
In the final play, LOVE IS A CARROT! OR CAN YOU LOVE THE UMBRELLA?, six pseudo-intellectual housemates get into endless groundless arguments, contradicting themselves and creating a cacophony of mad unreason. Unable to listen to each other or think outside of their very limited open minds, the characters are truer to our own world than we would like to believe.
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Office facilities provided by Thymele Arts, in Los Angeles, CA.
Contact Level: Light (Business/Acquaintance); audiences are invited to interact with performers and fellow patrons through activities such as holding hands or accepting drinks.
Content Advisories: Discussions of genocide, massacre, mass murder, and suicide. Moments of darkness.
Venue is wheelchair accessible. Audiences are guided to move around between each play and are seated at the close proximity of the performers. While some seats are located against the wall, some are located such that the performance takes place around them.
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