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?" 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.
Audience Role
Moving from one space to another during the performance.
Ages: 13 +
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About THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL
THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL JANUARY’S BROOKLYN-BASED THEATRE FESTIVAL ~ A pleasure, a mess, a thrill, and a dream. ~ Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields.