LOVE TRADE is an exploration of gender and cultural assumptions in upheaval.
The piece uncovers a love tangle between the Western goddess Demeter—frozen in eternal springtime—and Persephone—her restless daughter—who wanders away from the Motherland. Somewhere in No Man’s Land she encounters the Eastern god, Shiva—intense and mysterious—and is immediately attracted to his exotic ‘otherness.’
Persephone and Shiva hunger for connection, but Demeter, disguised as the Eastern goddess Dhumavati—the beholder of smoke—infects their meeting. They descend into the Underworld where they undergo the death of false dreams, as Persephone morphs into the Eastern goddess Kali—ruler of creation and destruction—and Shiva into Hades—king of the Underworld.
All three are finally released into their full humanity through the experience of love, and emerge from the depths transformed and transfigured.
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Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (9/30 - 12/30) | |
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Down Once More
Teatro Latea (12/15 - 12/21) | |
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A Marble Christmas Concert: Everlasting Joy, Narrated by Simon Jones
Marble Collegiate Church (12/14 - 12/14) | |
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Lobby Hero
Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (1/9 - 1/25)
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Strawberry Fields: Berry Christmas, Darling
Green Room 42 (12/18 - 12/18) HOLIDAY SHOW | |
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Dance, Edita, Dance!
The Factory Series @ The Chain Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
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A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
Hampton Theatre Company (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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Señor Bolero The Musical - Concert
54 Below (2/3 - 2/3) | |
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The Sun Up Close: Community Chat & Telescope Viewing
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (12/15 - 12/15) | |
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Webtoons Animation: Bringing Digital Comics to Life
Flop House Comedy Club (7/24 - 5/1) | |
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Selected Shorts: O. Henry Prize Stories with Edward P. Jones
Symphony Space (1/28 - 1/28) | |
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The Room of Falsehood!
Under St Marks (10/10 - 1/1) | |
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