The Hero of Alexandria ~PLUS~ A Lesson In Being Smothered By A Dragon ~PLUS~ A Gothic Opera ~PLUS~ How a River Carries You at Dixon Place

The Hero of Alexandria
Tomas Del Valle
A young inventor is resting before the next step of his journey when three Gods cross his path. Taking interest, they hurtle into his dreams. They plant images of great innovators and their influence, how simple it all was to attain with just a little help from them. But they are not here to teach or inspire. Wealth and power are what they sell and the price is always low, for you.

A Lesson In Being Smothered By A Dragon
Charlotte Durkee & Lilith Bachelder
Addie is not happy. Addie works at a home movie theater in the city. Addie has a foreboding feeling that a dragon is coming to smother them. Indeed, there is a dragon coming to smother Addie and there is nothing to be done. “A Lesson In Being Smothered By A Dragon“ is a short play about our sometimes keen ability to allow ourselves to be smothered by our own personal dragons.

A Gothic Opera
Fairy Tale Marionettes
A Gothic Opera is a true tale of love, lust, trust, and deceit, set in the seedy underbelly of the 90s club scene in the Lower East Side, as told by marionettes set to an original goth rock score. The soundtrack is influenced by The Smiths, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and other popular new wave, synth pop, and goth rock groups from the 80s and 90s.

How a River Carries You
Hyung Seok Jeon
With the text written by Sifiso Mabena, this poetic piece explores a sense of arrival and departure though minimalist puppetry. A canvas stands on an easel. A whale visits the canvas. The whale floats like a house. This abstract place around an easel will knock on the door of your pre-verbal brain.