in the lounge Die Again Romeo! Robert Diamond Coates & the Old World Rory Golden

About This Show

Die Again Romeo! is a satirical three-act period fantasy with hilarious contemporary references, inspired by Robert “Romeo” “Diamond” Coates, a 19th Century English Dandy and the world’s most celebrated bad actor. Constructed through a mosaic writing method with borrowed language from innumerable sources from historical research to contemporary verse.  Heckled as a buffoon, pitied as a blackmailed lover, and decried as a confidence man in sparkly shoes, Diamond Coates crafted the definitive dramatic death scene several times in a row after calls for “encore!” from hecklers inspired his bejeweled, foppish Romeo to rise up and die again.

about the artist

Rory Golden’s Duty Free Ranger performative works in public space destabilize colonialism & militarism on a vibrational level. Through rituals & acts of propitiation Golden becomes a transmitter of secret language that enables justice in some fashion. Live Art: La Mama; NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art & Politics “Emerge NYC” intensive; the Performance Laboratory (Detroit, MI); NYU’s Radical Archives Conference; Art in Odd Places in NYC & Sydney, Australia; Itinerant Performance Art Festival; No Longer Empty, & Dixon Place. Rory Golden is a 2017-18 Franklin Furnace Fund Awardee.  Die Again Romeo! is his first three act play.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 7pm

Free Admission

Estimated Runtime
45 minutes

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Credits

Sound & Music

LA Floyd @diamondseed

Other Performers

TBD

Photo credit:

Enrique Ortiz

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