Triple Solo Bill:
FYP, In the Elvis Mirror, & Doll Valley
June 25th at 7:00 PM
Doll Valley
Written and performed by Scout Davis
Zack Lobel - Lights
Camila Ortiz - Sound
Doll Valley is a meditation on a cornerstone of iconic queer camp pop culture endowed with the mythic tale of women attempting to navigate concepts of gaze and authorship in a volatile field/industry. This meditation takes the shape of a long form lip-sync in which I, Scout as sole performer, embodies a small group of performers giving a cold reading of the original book in a basement rehearsal studio in the midst of the winter of 2020 at a prestigious conservatory. This is paired with recorded audio from that very reading.
TW: Strong Language
In the Elvis Mirror
Written and performed by Stephen Dym
The Team at AKMA, Anne Pasquale, Keith Herron, Kandu Productions
"In the Elvis Mirror" is the personal reflection of a young boy growing up in the Bronx and sharing a room and an unusually close relationship with his teenage sister in the 1950s and 60s. "In the Elvis Mirror" explores sexual and gender development, queer consciousness, bi and pan sexuality. "Telling stories from our lives is healing and revealing. When I turned 70 years old I began telling stories from my life to my colleagues in an actors’ and writers cooperative workshop. I made audio recordings of the talks and from those transcripts completed fifteen twenty minute solo pieces".
TW: Sexual content
FYP
Written and performed by Adin Lenahan
FYP is a solo show that takes the performance-of-self we practice on social media and contorts it through the abstraction of voice and movement. An endless parade of contrasting voices ranging from Disney Adults to dying teenagers to ghost-hunting surfers to true crime enthusiasts to viral dancers to ASMR Reiki practitioners to Nicole Kidman all speak in no more than one-minute intervals and converge to tell a story about nothing (but nothing is ever about nothing).
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to display proof of two doses of an approved covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.