I love you, and I want you to be my bird Worry Noise Dirt Heat

About This Show

The eagle evokes patriotism, the pigeon evokes squalor. Storks spread new life, poultry spreads influenza. A single white dove is peace itself, a state almost contrary to nature—and humans have determined the innocent creature carries that impossibility in its fragile wings. We idolize, we demonize—sing songs of birds near and far, actual and mythical, dinosaur and not. And when four birders travel too deep into the feathered minds of their avian encounterees, humanity unravels, becomes beaked and buoyant—then soars. To the call of the carrion crow every life perpetually marches—but before reaching the bird, we can sing along.

About the Artist

Lane Dombois is a theater and recording artist. Credits: SD Acting Lab (producer, with director Daniel Sefik); Bark! or The Gone Trees, and Whatever Else With Them (librettist, with composer Jonathan Russ); Salvador (book & lyrics, with composer Ani Garcia); Madame Zero, On Monsieur’s Departure (composer, producer, performer); Outside In: The Chimes and Love in the Dark (producer); Everlasting (composer, with artist Raina Belleau); Escher’s Fish (co-composer with Edison Hong); Tenderfoot (composer, with Raina Belleau); Addle Me, Fluorescence (composer, producer, performer). MFA Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program NYU Tisch.

Jesse Freedman is a theater director, collaborator & Artistic Director of Meta-Phys Ed. Selected directing credits: Jew vs. Malta (La Mama), Outside In (Worry Noise Dirt Heat/ Dixon Place), Karaoke Bacchae (Meta-Phys Ed./ New Ohio Theater) Paisieu (Target Margin Stein Labs), Vilna’s Got a Golem (Sarah Lawrence College), Chalom: Dream Opera (Meta-Phys. Ed.). Collaborations: Target Margin Theater (Sound Demon), New Yiddish Rep (Production Manager, Stage Manager), Anthropologists (Actor, Dramaturge), Living Theater (Performer), Spicy Witches (Scenic designer). Training: MFA in Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, SITI Company, Tectonic Theater.

Saturday, December 3 at 10pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
75 minutes

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Credits

Written, composed & produced by Lane Dombois

Director & co-developer: Jesse Freedman

Photo credit: Lane Dombois

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