Indie Theater Thursday - Re/Venue x Mabou Mines Edition
This year we started a feature on many Thursday where IndieSpace shares upcoming indie theater shows/productions happening in New York City.
These are submitted by members of the IndieSpace community.
RE/VENUE NYC, a performance initiative started by Meghan Finn at The Tank, houses festival-style performance pop-ups where performing artists and hosting venues collaborate to quickly mount work and split ticket revenue. Mabou Mines and RE/VENUE NYC are partnering this July 23 - August 3 for pop-up performances by Mabou Mines affiliated artists.
There are a total of 16 new works being performed over the course of the pop-up.
We are adding this as a supplemental edition of our Indie Theater Thursday series to highlight the show happening for the Re/Venue x Mabou Mines.
See other shows happening in our Indie Theater Thursday – July 24.
more than ENOUGH by Zainab Musa
Sat - July 26 - 6:00PM
More than ENOUGH is a provocative performance exploring identity, culture and societal expectations. Through dynamic movement and frank storytelling watch me divest from the cult in this thought-provoking self love practice. The original work ENOUGH, first performed at the Red Eye Theatre in Minneapolis, celebrates 13 years. This second installment questions ownership of afrocentricity and challenges language boundaries: can ALL blacks use the word NIGGER? Will you continue to worship the god of capital? Free vaccines at the end of the show.
Creature by Tanya/Tamás Marquadt
Sat - July 26 - 8:00PM
Creature explores transmasculinity through 20th century queer writer Count Sándor Vay and the Magyar-Hungarian folk dance legényes or “Lad’s Dance”, an exuberant community dance that men perform with and for each other. Interlinking Magyar identity and genderqueerness, the show is a dance, an oral story, a sex party — all told through ethnography and queer history.
Time Passes, or My Husband Tells Me You're in Sharks by the Goat Exchange
Sun - July 27 - 4:00PM
A new verbatim work-in-progress by The Goat Exchange combining the astonishing 20-page middle section of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 modernist masterpiece “To the Lighthouse” and only Ellen Brody’s lines from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 pulp horror classic “Jaws.”
First Light Sit by Gardiner Comfort
Sun - July 27 - 6:00PM
Two correctional officers try and bag a deer before heading in to work. The challenges they meet in the woods put their professional training to the test and reveal how ill prepared they really are, not just for the task at hand, but for life.
Do You Remember Beaver Animation? by Yoshiko Chuma
Sun - July 27 - 8:00PM; Sat - Aug 2 - 4:00PM; and Sun - Aug 3 - 8:00PM
All Together Different Pop Up; Do You Remember Beaver Animation? may be a concept or working title by Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks. A more significant piece is My Dinner with Morgan at Remedy Diner, a multidisciplinary homage to dramaturg Morgan Jenness, incorporating themes of grief, war, and connection
Strings - dark is generous by Tuce Yasak
Mon - July 28 - 6:30PM
Through my 15 years in the United States, I have questioned the universality of love quite often, I still do to be clear. As one who loves on another land, in another culture and language, it is hard not to contemplate the practice of love and how it changes from geography to geography, culture to culture, language to language. This is applicable to grief as well because wherever there is love, there is grief and vice versa. Strings is an attempt to sit in grief as an act of love – I have owed this to myself, to my years in the US and to love. Strings is an attempt to understand the oneness of love/grief in tangent to the oneness of light/dark. Strings is also an attempt to untie the untie-able. And then what?
Gun Talk by Rachel Gita Karp
Tues - July 29 - 6:30PM
At home. At school. At work. At the movies. Everyone in America has a gun story. GUN TALK blends gun culture with guided conversation, inviting strangers to talk to each other about guns in America: to connect, reflect, and find new ways forward for one of our country’s most paralyzing problems.
Travels with my Best Beloved: Around the World in 80 Countries by Maude Mitchell
Tues - July 29 - 8:30PM and Thurs - July 31 - 8:30PM
Our theater work spanned 6 continents over 2 decades & when traveling we’d arrive early, stay late, & wander . . . thus by the time Lee (Breuer) passed his coin to the ferryman & winked at the dog, we’d touched down together in 80 countries. Spin a globe & choose tales from Borneo to La Comédie Française!
Bodies and Beds by Damayanti Wallace
Thurs - July 31 - 6:30PM
Bodies and Beds by Nadel Henville is a play about the most vulnerable moments that happen in the place we don’t want to give to an audience—the bedroom. Three intertwined couples explore sex and what it is in a means of control, love, exploration, and desperation.
Ace of Swords by Lydia Jialu Li
Fri - Aug 1 - 6:30PM and Sat - Aug 2 - 8:00PM
He strangled Her with extreme force to the point She lost consciousness and completely collapsed. Succumbed to His violences, She disintegrates, her pieces sifted through the cracks between Life and Death, between systems and heartbeats. Choir of deceased Chinese sisters and Black Grandmothers sing: time to draw. A tale of surviving in parts.
First Encounter by Demetris Charlambous & Quique
Fri - Aug 1 - 8:30PM
A banished creature conjures a deity, a hot boyfriend from the bowels of an island. Under terrible bright light, first light inspires desire. A mountain range becomes a shore becomes a core. Pleasuring and annihilating each other, they turn over to the heat and meet as if for the first time, forever.
Untitled/DEI Memorial Service by Perel
Sat - Aug 2 - 6:00PM
Rooted in personal storytelling of love and grief, Perel invites audience members to perform acts of care for their body throughout the theatrical performance in this participatory “”assisted solo.“ Interdisciplinary artist Perel, whose work is centered on disability and queerness, invites those who come to share their own experiences of loss for collective honoring.
Emily Manzo & Shayna Dunkelman perform Triangle Tower by Emily Manzo
Sat - Aug 3 - 4:00PM
Triangle Tower is a 45-minute song cycle by Emily Manzo exploring how relationships shift through birth and loss. Featuring percussionist Shayna Dunkelman, the work blends original music with arrangements of Cage and Cowell, creating a sonic meditation on connection, disconnection, and the emotional landscapes in between.
Prime Time Time: The Music of Ornette Coleman by Aaron Siegel
Sat - Aug 3 - 6:00PM
A Harmolodic exploration of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time music, a riotous and colorful expression of freedom.
