By turns tenacious and tender, this world premiere performance at the Bushwick Starr reimagines the economies of power between friends, families, and wrestlers. More…
Drawing on a host of influences—spanning Genet’s 'The Maids,' celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel’s available-on-Audible couples counseling sessions, 'Notes on a Scandal,' Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Quartet and Precious Moments® Collectible Dolls — this kaleidoscopic production grapples with the desire, rivalry, vulnerability, and subterfuge that bind two people together and maps the bonds and hysteria of earned intimacy.
See it if You enjoy theatre that plays with form.
Don't see it if You need strictly linear story-telling.
See it if you want to see GOOD fringe theater
Don't see it if you need to understand what's going on on stage at all times
See it if you're in the mood for a series of sometimes zany vignettes that are more about mood/intensity than plot
Don't see it if you want a linear storyline; you're in the mood for something with a big cast (this is a two-actor show)
See it if you want something offbeat, funny, unusual that contains vignettes of humor, dance, song, w/allusions to sexual attraction, gender
Don't see it if you want a straightforward linear play