another emo adaptation? with lots of murder and messed-up sex? from a CLASSIC OF THE CANON all riled up about WHO IS AND ISN’T A WHORE??? that’s right it’s

PITY WHORE

written by Julia Jarcho, directed by Kedian Keohan, a riff on John Ford’s ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE. Annie waits tables at the Cheesecake Factory while her brother’s away at school; their mom is kind of a slut. Annie’s cute, Gio’s sad, and when she goes up to visit him at college, longing and tenderness tip toward the unthinkable and the grotesque, all laced with humor from somewhere unhinged.

world premiere at NYU Skirball in the Under The Radar festival

more info here

we can’t wait to gross you out some more.

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Girlish, perilous, sexy and bleak…. – (Soloski NYTimes) 

we came, we saw, we danced.

Thank you to all the audience and lovers who came out to Marie It’s Time
we are so proud of this one.

Thank you again to HERE Arts Center, our design and production team, and all the artists who brought Marie to the stage. We did it.

Check out photos and press from the show here. 

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hi dears

it’s been a minute. a weird one.

spent some time in the dark & now we’re working on a play again. we still like you so we wanted to tell you what we’re up to—

our thing  MARIE IT’S TIME is set to premiere next September at HERE Arts Center. it’s 3 of us at mics. there’s songs and some dirty talk about murder. now we’re back in the studio working on it. don’t worry we’re gonna take pictures.

Why do I love sexy stories about my own destruction? What can a mother be but a dead whore? MARIE IT’S TIME is a retort to Woyzeck that pumps hot blood through the veins of theater’s favorite murder-victim. Julia Jarcho and Jenny Seastone embody Marie, Büchner’s doomed baby mama, as the director and star of her own seduction, featuring Kedian Keohan as the backbeat and object of lust. … Read on

we think the world is bad. we want it to be better. like you, we are often very tired and sad. we are often tempted to give up on wanting anything. our society trains us every day to believe that “it is how it is.” that this is as good as it gets. 

as artists, our job is to interfere with the processes of perception and sense-making that support this complacency and this despair. for us, it’s not a matter of showing you what’s wrong with our society, as if you didn’t already know. it’s not a matter of telling you what should happen next, as if you had any good reason to listen to us. what we want to do is make spaces where we can all practice getting attuned to the impossible. 

we don’t want to stage utopia. we don’t want to theater a better world into being. … Read on