Month: January 2018
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Amelia & Audrey respond to SHEILA
Culturebot contributors Amelia Parenteau and Audrey Moyce in dialogue on SHEILA at A.R.T./New York
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The Wordy Worlds of Mac Wellman
The evening resembles what one might imagine how a Moth Storytelling Hour might play out if it were held at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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On Femme Pathos, with a Joseph Campbell analogy
Moodey tries to save the bird by soaking it in Epsom salts and massaging it, but the inevitability of its death leads to the practicality of it being made into chicken soup.
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Accomplices in the Realness: Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire & NIC Kay
The age of the ally is over, let’s be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.
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Mieke D Responds To PILLOWTALK’s 2nd Long-Table: On Queer and TransMagic in the Werkplace
“Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.” We need money, but money is not the only way to define our value.
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A Timeshare Presentation For Troubled Audience Members
Bizarre, off-putting, and utterly spectacular
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Jason Tseng in response PILLOWTALK’s First Long-table Discussion
Editor’s Note: Jason Tseng attended a long-table discussion following a recent performance of Pillowtalk and provided the following response. Future long-tables will be held on January 18th and January 25th. I have had […]
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Disruptive Cuteness
Responding to CUTE ACTIVIST at the Bushwick Starr: “Does this play want me to ‘like’ it or to ‘crying face’ it?”
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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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Getting Real #1: Michelle Ellsworth’s “The Rehearsal Artist” for American Realness
Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.
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NUMB: thoughts on old school animation
How little it takes to break someone. How quickly their mania breeds.
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Bedroom Conversation – An Intimate Moment with the Collaborators of Pillowtalk
My collaborators on Pillowtalk have pushed me to envision a different time and place: a beautifully queer place that simultaneously grounds us in the deeply dangerous reality of American culture and propels us forward to claim the spaces for an equitable future governed by radical love.
