Goblin Town Microplays
During this pandemic, we started making digital microplays, inspired by the Neofuturists!
The Neos are a network of performance ensembles that practice “non-illusory theatre”: performance that does not ask the audience to suspend any disbelief. Performers do what they say they are doing, they tend to write from personal experience, and they are playing themselves in the real context of the performance.
We’ve been drawn to this idea for a long time now. Christina even auditioned for the SF troupe when she lived there! Their flagship show, The Infinite Wrench, consists of mainly very short plays, 2 minutes on average, that are funny, poetic, absurd, political, personal, experimental, dumb, etc. As zinesters, professional amateurs, goblins, and life artists, this format speaks to us. What we do at Mt Caz is inspired by that kind of prolific practice, to experiment generously with our ideas and present our process as the art itself.
So, as the pandemic changed our lives and the Neos started creating work to share online, and we’ve been able to follow along, we got off our butts and started making some of our own.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSZmemb4UL8p0tfVNfEUlCA_aMRsry99RApXtPKhdAaeDGXipJc-SolwFaAW2S2hE4P39l36lZxcWAE/pub
You can click here to watch our rotating slate of microplays. They will be smart, somber, powerful, boring, strange, poetic, etc. Hopefully not all at once. They’ll expire regularly, so check back every few weeks and we should have a completely new set! And if you’re interested in joining our ensemble, get in touch!
The Neofuturists make amazing beautiful work and we are so grateful they are continuing to share it during the pandemic. Learn more about them, watch the plays they’re making right now, and support them materially if you can.
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