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THIS IS ONLY A HYPOTHESIS

© 2017 Daniel Mirsky, featuring Daniel Mirsky, Katy-May Hudson, Dan McCoy, Hilary Asare, and Mike Puckett.

© 2017 Kyra Sims The Infinite Fright 2017

Stage picture: lights @ 50%. Neos enter one at a time from different locations and walk backwards in slow motion as the text is V.O. Our final position at the end of the V.O. will be in a line across the lip of the stage.

KYRA: credits roll

MIRSKY: credits roll

KRYS: credits roll down instead of up

CONNOR: question mark. the end?

T: camera fades back in and pans across a swat team looking down at a dead 64 year old white man

DAN: a dead 64 year old white man.

ALEX: the swat team flings itself out of the room

KYRA: the door lifts, its splinters finding their original homes. it rights itself.

MIRSKY: the blood returns to the man’s head as his skull comes back together

KRYS: the man stands, he stands and he turns his head back to the tvs showing a swat team rushing backwards

CONNOR: a swat team rushing backwards.

T: a man’s bullets return to him like chickens to roost. so fast. so easy.

DAN: bodies below uncrumple. rivers of blood find their sources.

ALEX: people float to their feet in defiance of gravity. They stand. They smile.

KYRA: They sip their drinks

MIRSKY: watching as the musicians gather notes back into their instruments

KRYS: this is not a film

CONNOR: but if it were

T: people, families, and lovers would stroll unseeing, backs facing the past

DAN: And the sun would rise in the west

ALEX: over another normal day

KYRA: just like any other.

Front lights come up to 100% on Neos at lip of stage. They smile, and raise up their hands to the audience in greeting.

CURTAIN.

THE INFINITE FRIGHT $20 in Advance – Buy now. $20 at the door. $15 at the door if you come in costume.

THE INFINITE FRIGHT

THE NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS ANNOUNCE A PRODUCTION OF SIGHT, SOUND, AND YOU AT YOUR MOST BEAUTIFUL HAPPY TO SEE YOU

An Interactive Media Performance By Cara Francis Performed by Cara Francis, Daniel Mirsky, and You. Technical Collaborator: Daniel Mirsky General Manager: Emily Pojman

The award-winning New York Neo-Futurists are pleased to announce the New York premiere of Happy To See You, created and directed by Cara Francis. It will run at the The Collapsable Hole in October.

A meditation on the complex relationships that humans develop with the virtual spaces they inhabit, pass through, and engage with every day, Happy To See You interviews its audience members on their social media habits, their feelings about artificial intelligence and their experience living a virtual life in a physical world. Selected participants, engaged in conversation with the disembodied voice of an open-ended dialogue system, will see themselves reflected by cameras beginning with the ones used by their own smart phone apps. In addition to an opportunity to “be truly seen by your friends, your peers, your strangers, and an invisible network of algorithms collecting your data directly from your mind’s eye”, audience members will receive the chance to enter a virtual reality paradise of their choosing in front of the remaining audience for an unreproducible interactive media experience.

The Infinite Wrench is our theatrical mechanism that unleashes a barrage of two-minute plays. Each play offers something different–funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or a song; all tackle the here-and-now and are inspired by the experiences of the performers. It is the Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and we are doing so many things, things in plays, that you should come and check it out for yourself.

New plays every week; different show every time! If you’ve seen the show once, you’ve seen the show once.

thirteen, or I wanted to throw the company a bar mitzvah but I'm not Jewish :( feat. Mirsky as The New York Neo-Futurists (the company), and the rest of the cast as bored 13-year-olds slow dancing middle school-style © 2017 Kyra Sims

Kyra sits on a block down center. At Go, Mirsky comes and sits in her lap. Maybe Mirsky has a babyhead taped to his face. He's wearing a party hat and holding a wrench. The rest of the Neos are slow dancing middle school-style upstage. Purpleish lights upstage. “As Long As You Love Me” by the Backstreet Boys starts to play, and drops down very low after 10 seconds. Front special on KS & DM as music fades down.

KYRA: There’s my special little bubbeleh.

MIRSKY: Hi, Kyra.

KYRA: It's a special day/Tomorrow's a special day, my son.

MIRSKY: Yes, I, The New York Neo-Futurists, the company, am turning 13.

Kyra boops Mirsky on the nose.

KYRA: That's right. You're a man now, bubbeleh. Well, as much of a man as an experimental theatre company can be. Now, my little mensch- you might have noticed that you've been going through some changes.

MIRSKY: My show has a new name.

KYRA: Yes, that’s true. You are a blind baby no more! Now you are strong, wrench-wielding company!

MIRSKY: (looks down as if shy) I have a halftime show now, too...

KYRA: Yes, it is completely normal to experience some unexpected growths in that area (gestures at the clothesline). Now, little boychik, I wanted to throw you a nice bar mitzvah, but I don't own a Torah.

MIRSKY: And I can't read Hebrew.

KYRA: Yes.

MIRSKY: And you've never been to a bar mitzvah.

KYRA: I saw one once, briefly.

MIRSKY: And you're not Jewish.

KYRA: Not even a little. But I've lived in New York for nearly eight years now, and Judaism fascinates me! I wanted to find a way to acknowledge your metaphorical manhood without being too appropriative.

MIRSKY: But you are using random Yiddish words.

KYRA: YIDDISH IS COOL OK? No one is perfect. I'll stop.

Kyra picks up a cupcake and hands it to Mirsky.

KYRA: Happy Birthday, New York Neo-Futurists. I love you so much.

MIRSKY: Thanks.

Mirsky shoves the cupcake in his mouth.