Author: Jennifer Cayer
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A Humble Utopia: Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s Dinner Party 1960-2000s with chef Kristin Worrall at New York Live Arts, March 10th 2019
Feminist philosopher Grosz asks: “How can we understand space differently, in order to organize, inhabit, and structure our living arrangements differently?” Dirks-Goodman takes this as provocation for her homespun meal and her other, more intangible, offerings.
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Sex Werk: Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play
If fantasy has the power to instantiate, and maintain such debilitating power structures, could it also be the very force required to undo them?
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Talk to me. It’s been hard.
What would it mean, Café Play wonders, if we could be more present– less tweets, phones off, open to chance strangers seated nearby, ears attuned to those around us, and to the creatures and objects outside of our usual frequencies?
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More Muscle! Liza Birkenmeier’s ‘the hollower’ (director Kristy Dodson) presented by New Light Theater Project
One woman’s refusal to participate in the social straightjackets necessitates another’s sacrifice; the hollower’s women are negatively bound to each other in a zero sum game.
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Life On (the way to) Mars: Loading Dock Theatre’s Spaceman with the Wild Project
The unknown and imagined expanse of space becomes synonymous at times with something like Heaven.
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Stranger Things: Dane Terry’s Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons, directed and developed by Ellie Heyman, Performance Space 122, Coil Festival
Terry shepherds us through storytelling, theater, and song on an absurdist Lynchian dive into the creepy under belly of the suburban Midwest town.
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Pastoral Paradox
A response to “Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor” at the 2017 BAM Next Wave Festival
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To the Lighthouse: Sara Juli’s TENSE VAGINA: AN ACTUAL DIAGNOSIS at The Chocolate Factory
it’s the rare conversation that ventures into the silence surrounding all of the strange aspects of postpartum recovery and the illusion, for many, of the six-week, go-forth-and-fornicate appointment
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In Real Time: MILES FOR MARY, The Mad Ones in Collaboration with Amy Staats and Stacey Yen
It’s funny, like a more restrained, extended version of Saturday Night Live’s NPR spoof, “Delicious Dish.” But there’s more to it.
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Deathlandia: THE UNDERTAKING, Steven Cosson, The Civilians in collaboration with Jessica Mitrani, BAM Next Wave
I wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and check if my partner is still breathing.
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
There’s something inherently destabilizing (and super fun) when particular performance genres are encountered out of their habitual, safe havens.
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The Funks
Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings at New York Live Arts