THE KICK INSIDE to Premiere at HERE Arts Center This Fall

HERE Arts Center and THE MILLION UNDERSCORES _ _  will present the World Premiere of The Kick Inside, aonceived and directed by Nicolás Noreña with text by Penny Arcade, Jess Barbagallo, Ethan Fishbane, Richard Foreman, Hillary Gao, Nazareth Hassan, John Jesurun, Marvin Just, Dhari Noel, Normandy Sherwood, Hayley Stahl, and Fiona Templeton at HERE Arts Center, October 21-November 7. 

The Kick Inside is a Kate Bush-inspired exquisite corpse of a play written by thirteen New York City based playwrights. The story follows Alenka, a woman who grows awfully tired of the way that people talk to one another and begins experimenting with language in every scene of this one-and-a-half-act play. Visually rich and littered with strange phenomena, action sequences, dogs, algorithm possessions, hitmen and a world that speaks back, The Kick Inside uncovers a lost city that tilts language to ask where words come from within us, and how deeply we transform each other's emotional fabrics. 

The creative team will include Set, Props & Costume Design by Normandy Sherwood (Psychic Self Defense at HERE; Permanent Caterpillar at The Brick), Lightning Design by Daisy Long (mi.nority with WP Theater/Colt Coeur; The Ask at wild project), and Sound Design by Robin Margolis (Baby Butcher Choke For Free at The Brick; Actua 1 at The Collapsible Hole) with Creative Producer John Del Gaudio (Producer at The Mercury Store). The performance will run approximately 80 minutes, with no intermission.