The Mushroom
Normandy Sherwood & Nikki Calonge
at Target Margin's The Doxsee Theater
January 8 - 9 at 5pm and 8pm
January 10 at 2pm, 5pm, and 8pm
January 11 at 2pm and 5pm
The Mushroom. It is a radial play with spokes pointing outward. Or an explosion of spores in the form of an evening at the theater. It is a pageant that gives a micro view of the forest floor. It has to do with awe and decadence and the question: "What knows it's alive?"
Co-directed by Normandy Sherwood and Nikki Calonge
Writing and Production Design by Normandy Sherwood
Choreography by Nikki Calonge
Lighting Design by Christina Tang
Lead Image Credits: Nikki Calonge & Normandy Sherwood
Find them: @normandyraven @nikkicalonge www.thedrunkardswife.com
The Mushroom shape-shifts from a pageant that gives a micro view of the forest floor, to an incantation, to an inchworm tap-dance and on to many other mushroom tragedies and horrors, which add up to a larger display of our fascination and fear of porousness and fragmentation. It features dancing, successions of lacy meshes, and costumes that are scenic pieces.
CW: This show contains audience walking upstairs during performance.
The Mushroom would like to thank Foundation For Contemporary Arts Creative Research Fund, A.R.T./ New York Fund for Small Theaters.