Not For Resale Written by Jess Barbagallo & Alexis Powell in collaboration with the Ensemble
About This Show
Not for Resale is a play that explores queer identities, queer communities and, the implications of queerness in socially constructed spaces.
A high-spirited, comedic, at times irreverent and other times vulnerable music-filled production that examines queerness as a place of personal and cultural innovation. And, like any place of innovation and experimentation that has strong aesthetics at work, there is the ever-present danger for appropriation and commodification by capitalist, patriarchal systems. With any visibility comes the danger of this commodification and the play wrestles with identities being marketed and examines “what is being sold”. It suggests that, potentially, queerness may only successfully exist outside of capitalist structures and asks us to consider if it can operate within them. It was devised by queer-identifying performers and drama therapists in NYU’s As Performance research series and written by actor and playwright Jess Barbagallo and directed by Alexis Powell.
about the artists
Jess Barbagallo is a writer, director, performer, arts journalist and teacher based in New York City–with a long history at Dixon Place. Playwriting credits include: Melissa, So Far, My Old Man (and Other Stories), Sentence Fetish, Joe Ranono’s Yuletide Log and Other Fruitcakes , Karen Davis Does …, Good Year for Hunters), Room for Cream: A Live Lesbian Serial, Saturn Nights, and Grey-Eyed Dogs. And he moonlights as an actor, currently performing in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre. BFA: New York University, MFA: Brooklyn College.
Alexis Powell is a multidisciplinary performer making original work with her ensemble, Hearsay & Hyperbole (OK, GURGLE, All Them That Weave The Wind, An Invitation to Sleep, Thank You For Calling). She has composed and performed music in Sibyl Kempson’s 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens at the Whitney Museum and, most recently, Sasquatch Rituals at The Kitchen. BA: Sarah Lawrence College, MA in Drama Therapy from New York University. www.hearsayandhyperbole.com
Saturday, July 7, 2018 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
60 minutes
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Credits
Ensemble:
Jess Barbagallo, Nick Brunner, Dylan Goodman, Aunree J. Houston, s.o. O’Brien, Jess Orense, Alexis Powell, Yel Rennals, Roxy Schoenfeld, Adam Stevens, Dana George Trottier
Director:
Alexis Powell
Assistant Director:
Roxy Schoenfeld
Video Design:
s.o. O’Brien
Sound Designer:
Lauren Girouard
Choreography:
Joyah Love Spangler, Maria Hodermarska
Puppets, Animation and Unicorn Horn Supervision:
Annie Sicherman