A play about death. Meant to be a comedy.

A play about death. Meant to be a comedy.

LIME FEST: Short Works

Two short works. One cool show.

michaela & you: an indefinite draft and exquisite corpse
A Short Film
Devised by Michaela Escarcega + Eliana Theolodiges-Rodriguez
Directed by Michaela Escarcega

SILENT BEAT
Choreographed and Performed by Denisa Musilova

Silent Beat is an exploration of taking and losing control. From the authenticity of speaking about personal trauma to removing the voice, the work oscillates between a documentary and a performance.

Izzy has never had a lot of friends. Neither has Mira. Izzy needs to get out of her hometown stat. Mira is looking for a place to belong. A love of early 2000s bubblegum pop and an undeniable chemistry launch the two of them into an instant friendship. Mira and a local talent show might be Izzy's ticket out of there. If they can make it to the show.

'The Magdalenes' follows Lily, who has experienced an immaculate conception, as she begins her first year at the Society of Magdalena, an institution for bodies who have been touched by God.

'The Magdalenes' follows Lily, who has experienced an immaculate conception, as she begins her first year at the Society of Magdalena, an institution for bodies who have been touched by God.

'The Magdalenes' follows Lily, who has experienced an immaculate conception, as she begins her first year at the Society of Magdalena, an institution for bodies who have been touched by God.

Sometimes mistakes happen. Sometimes those mistakes involve a playful kitten growing into a 200-foot-tall behemoth and terrorizing a city. Either way, the fur's about to fly.

A play about death. Meant to be a comedy.

Izzy has never had a lot of friends. Neither has Mira. Izzy needs to get out of her hometown stat. Mira is looking for a place to belong. A love of early 2000s bubblegum pop and an undeniable chemistry launch the two of them into an instant friendship. Mira and a local talent show might be Izzy's ticket out of there. If they can make it to the show.

LIME FEST: Short Works

Two short works. One cool outdoor show.

TRIBUTE DANCE FOR LAUREL
by Eliana Theologides-Rodriguez and Katie Walenta
Directed by Michaela Escarcega

Join us for a tribute performance in honor of Laurel.

SILENT BEAT
Choreographed and Performed by Denisa Musilova

Silent Beat is an exploration of taking and losing control. From the authenticity of speaking about personal trauma to removing the voice, the work oscillates between a documentary and a performance.

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You’re invited to Jessica’s tenth birthday bash, a night you’re sure to never forget. Ten year old Willow is an anxious mess. She just moved to New Jersey from Wisconsin, her parents are divorced, and her precociousness makes it difficult for her to make friends her own age. She gets invited to the birthday party of Jessica, the coolest and meanest girl in her class. There, she meets Lily, who she instantly shares a connection with through a mutual love of New York City and American girl dolls. Willow also meets Emily, Jessica’s partner in crime, Rebecca, an insecure girl who developed early, and Blair, the group’s personal punching bag. Jessica wields her power among the girls with malicious glee, as the party eventually ends in tears. We follow these six girls after the night of that fateful party through middle school and eventually to the night of their high school graduation. Anything can happen at Jessica’s house.

A play about death. Meant to be a comedy.

A play about death. Meant to be a comedy.

A play about death. Meant to be a comedy.

You’re invited to Jessica’s tenth birthday bash, a night you’re sure to never forget. Ten year old Willow is an anxious mess. She just moved to New Jersey from Wisconsin, her parents are divorced, and her precociousness makes it difficult for her to make friends her own age. She gets invited to the birthday party of Jessica, the coolest and meanest girl in her class. There, she meets Lily, who she instantly shares a connection with through a mutual love of New York City and American girl dolls. Willow also meets Emily, Jessica’s partner in crime, Rebecca, an insecure girl who developed early, and Blair, the group’s personal punching bag. Jessica wields her power among the girls with malicious glee, as the party eventually ends in tears. We follow these six girls after the night of that fateful party through middle school and eventually to the night of their high school graduation. Anything can happen at Jessica’s house.

“would you set the table if I asked you to?” is an action performance that explores the distinction between human and animal. Made up of dance, ritualistic gestures, illusion, and set with the backdrop of a dinner, “would you set the table if I asked you to?” creates an intimate, unique space where the audience has no choice but to become a participant. Actors scream and grunt, they morph between different roles, through different phases, and different states of being human in order to question the binary of human and animal and ask about the subversive, grief-filled shades in between. What results is a dinner party like no other.

Created by Hillary Gao and presented as a work-in-progress showing in collaboration with movement director Marlaina Garcia Riegelsberger.

BLOOD/SWEAT/TEARS is a horror movie, inside of a musical, inside of a play about Ginny (and her movie and musical counterparts – the show is triple cast across the worlds) – Ginny is a bookwriter & lyricist, who’s fighting to get the final draft of her musical script approved to go into rehearsals. But as Ginny’s creative team insists on changes, she begins rewrites that drastically impact the plot of the musical and therefore the horror movie. Turning a story that should be one of determination and success into a disturbing tale about survival, as reality and fiction begin to blur during Ginny’s final evaluation.

A theatrical installation exploring the relationship between the viewers, the actors, and the performance itself, developed from stimuli generated before the moment, in the moment and after.

What is collaboration? What dictates the devising process? And is that process limited to those artists directly involved, or can it be extended to incorporate the minds of the broader community?

Through this ongoing piece, we invite you into the creative process of devising, and encourage you to curate your own viewing experience through the tools we provide. What you leave behind, may alter the piece for the next viewer.

Can we, when exploring this together, lean into this now all too familiar feeling of sharing a collective experience, alone.

A theatrical installation exploring the relationship between the viewers, the actors, and the performance itself, developed from stimuli generated before the moment, in the moment and after.

What is collaboration? What dictates the devising process? And is that process limited to those artists directly involved, or can it be extended to incorporate the minds of the broader community?

Through this ongoing piece, we invite you into the creative process of devising, and encourage you to curate your own viewing experience through the tools we provide. What you leave behind, may alter the piece for the next viewer.

Can we, when exploring this together, lean into this now all too familiar feeling of sharing a collective experience, alone.