The Tank’s 2024/2025 Season
The spring season will include Peregrination; Touch; Deadclass, Ohio; birthday birthday birthday; Astronauts Wanted; and Lobster.
FALL 2024 SEASON
GOLEM OWNED A TROPICAL SMOOTHIE
By Ethan Crystal & Garrett Poladian
Directed by Patrick Swailes Caldwell
OCTOBER 17-NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie tells the story of Golem, a non-copyright infringing creature who owns a non-copyright infringing smoothie shop called Tropical Smoothie in Panama City Beach, Florida. All is going well – until Smeegle, the notorious CEO of the mega-corporate Smoothie Kingdom, threatens to drive him out of business with tax loophole trickery. To save the shop, Golem and his loyal employees (Ian, a high school kid; Gabby, his overachieving older sister; and Kyle, a stoner college dropout) must come up with a plan to raise $60,000 in one week – or maybe 5 days? It doesn’t really matter. The point is, Golem owned a Tropical Smoothie.
TESTING²
Created by Soomi Kim
Choreographed and performed by Laura Peterson and Soomi Kim
DECEMBER 5-DECEMBER 15, 2024
In Testing², dance theater artist Soomi Kim and choreographer Laura Peterson weave together snippets of text, song, anecdotes, and other sound bites from the recording sessions of famous musical duos. Actor/dancers Peterson and Kim toggle the lines between the ridiculous, the profound moments of brilliance, heartbreak and the absurd spaces in between.
SPRING 2025 SEASON
PEREGRINATION
a masked show about People and Borders
co-produced by Dutch Kills Theater and Long Story Short
Performed by Megan Campisi, Julia Cavagna, Jay Dunn, Blake Habermann, Malcolm Opoku, and Angela Parra
Outside Eye: Brendan McMahon
Original Sound Design and Live Sound Performance by Joan Hofmeyr
JANUARY 9-JANUARY 26, 2025
Peregrination is a wordless play with original music and sound design exploring journeys of displacement and migration. It is drawn from interviews with displaced people and personal stories of our international performance collective and performed in masks. Peregrination uses the poetic, metaphoric language of the masks to explore shared experiences of journeys across borders.
TOUCH
A New Comedy
By Lori Goodman
Directed by Janice L. Goldberg
FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 16, 2025
Now in Florida, Betty, a widow, is having a difficult time adjusting to life without her husband. She’s driving her son crazy as she dips her toe into online dating. Bob, a widower, also a Florida transplant, gets a call from his recently divorced daughter: she’s coming to visit. They are too much alike to help each other. With poignancy, pathos, and humor, a cast of seven travels the vicissitudes of navigating life after loss, reaching across the generational divide, getting older, and just being human.
DEADCLASS, OHIO
Devised by The Goat Exchange
Original text by Eliya Smith
Directed by Mitchell Polonsky and Chloe Claudel
March 4-23,2025
Loosely inspired by Tadeusz Kantor’s masterpiece The Dead Class and assembled from original text, recycled memories, family secrets, old photos, live violin score, and verbatim fragments of rediscovered memoirs and voicemails, DEADCLASS, OHIO is a seance for the living and a love song for the dead.
birthday birthday birthday
By Johnny G. Lloyd
Directed by Will Steinberger
MARCH 27-APRIL 19, 2025
Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday. Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday party. And Marissa and Clark plan on doing anything in their power to share that birthday party for the rest of their lives - and then some.. A multi-decade romp through race, class, and time, birthday birthday birthday is about who we choose, how we change, and what it takes to remember it all.
ASTRONAUTS WANTED
By Heloise Wilson (Democra, Fault Line Theatre)
Directed by Saki Kawamura
APRIL 4-APRIL 27, 2025
Inspired by the Mars One Project, which aimed to send the first human beings to Mars, Astronauts Wanted mixes projections and physical theatre. The piece is based on real-life interviews with the Mars One project participants and in collaboration with the scientific community. Three volunteers, Sol, Sorcha and Tallulah are on their way to Mars. Playing with their fate, they push the boundaries of their own humanity and look deep within as they embark on a no-return mission.
LOBSTER
By Kallan Dana
Directed by Hanna Yurfest
Co-Produced by Emma Richmond and Needy Lover
APRIL 24-MAY 15, 2025
Nora loves Patti Smith. Nora is Patti Smith. Nora is stoned out of her mind in the Chelsea Hotel, no, the Chelsea Hotel is her mind, actually, the Chelsea Hotel is an out-of-use portable classroom in the Pacific Northwest, but that portable is a breeding ground for lobsters young women.
PREVIOUS CORE PRODUCTIONS
VILE ISLE
Written by Justin Halle
Directed by Spencer Whale
Co-Produced by Most Unwanted
SEPTEMBER 13-OCTOBER 8, 2024
In seven days the world will end by Flood—at least according to drag queen Lizzie Fine, who receives a frightening prophecy of Old Testament proportions. Meanwhile, a gaggle of gay "chosen family" considers unchoosing each other. Nathan the Demon Twink seeks transcendence through Kabbalah (and Adderall), Christopher bravely transitions (into a DJ), and Gnocchi the Cat WILL be Bat Mitzvah'd, God willing. Vile Isle is a precocious and party-fueled dark comedy about how we fail and forgive one another and what faith is worth when our limits are existentially tested.
SUNSET, ECLIPSED BY SEAGULLS
Written By Deniz Khateri
Co-Directed by Siobhàn Carroll and Deniz Khateri
Music Compostions by Bahar Royaee
SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 13, 2024
Sunset, Eclipsed by Seagulls tells a true story of intercontinental love stifled by physical separation due to political frictions between Iran and the US. Jake (an American white man in his 30s) and Leyla (an Iranian woman in her late 20s), who met on a trip to Paris, fall in love and decide to be together although they live oceans away. Just when Jake applies for Leyla’s visa to bring her to the US as his fiancée, Trump’s travel ban goes into effect preventing any Iranians from entering the US. The couple struggle to maintain their relationship through this situation.