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Make Your Own City Festival Presents No Face
The Make Your Own City Festival is excited to present a special one-night performance by No Face Performance Group. This Philly-based theater company was founded in 2007 by Gedney Barclay, Asa Horvitz, Jaime Maseda, and Mark McCloughan.
The Beautiful Refrigerator is Empty is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the transformative pressures of adolescence. Teena Geist is a perfectly normal fourteen-year-old girl: she has a best friend, Jessica; she has a crush on a boy, Tod; she dreams of going to the prom with that boy and being his prom queen. Except Tod is Jessica's boyfriend. And Jessica has been missing for three days. As Teena relates the events surrounding Jessica's disappearance, the audience is forced to confront the dark realities of teenage angst. Did Teena have something to do with Jessica's disappearance? Would she destroy a lifelong friendship to act on her overpowering lust? As the hour of prom approaches, Teena's stories veer from high school mundanity to dark humor and Grand Guignol horror. What depravity lurks beneath the veneer of high school normalcy? Teena knows, and tonight, on Prom night, she's telling all about it.
Teena is joined onstage by two other performers, who provide live improvised music and design manipulation while sometimes interacting with Teena more directly. Because Teena's text and performance are never quite fixed, Teena and her supporting cast scale dizzying emotional heights in fits of improvisatory synergy. Sometimes supportive of Teena's tone, sometimes resistant to it, the musicians/designers/performers keep the performance in a constant state of play.
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LocationThe Collapsable Hole
146 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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