Playground Lessons Abi Lieff & Mackian Bauman
About This Show
The show focuses on risk-taking on stage as both performer and observer explore the common experiences of envy, pain and shame through a queer lens. As a group of queer artists in a time of severe cultural and political division, we long for self-expression in the face of societal pressures to be ‘normal.’ The show aims to answer the question: how far can we take that expression without alienating the very people we need to lift us up? Is simply being a queer person in 2018 an act of rebellion—and if it is, how can we do that while remaining unified with everyone else around us?
about the artists
Abi Lieff (Director/Producer/Performer)
Abi Lieff is a Brooklyn based actor, writer and physical performer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was a competitive dancer until college, where she there expanded her love of movement through other physical performance techniques. She graduated NYU in May of 2017, and is currently training under Julia Crockett and Nathan Flower to become a specialist of the Williamson technique. What’s more, she is currently starting her own production company.
Mackian Bauman (Director/Performer)
Mackian Bauman is a physical artist from the sun-drenched SoCal. In 2012, he enrolled in NYU where he found his love for devising and the moving body. As an actor, you would have seen him last in “Adonis Memories,” an immersive production set at The Adonis, the famed 70’s gay porn theater. Currently, he is a member of the movement company Julia Crockett & Group and is training to become a specialist of the Williamson Technique.
Monday, July 16 at 9:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
75 minutes
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Credits
Featuring/Collaborators
Abi Lieff (Director)
Mackian Bauman (Director)
Taylor Turner
Allie Shapiro
Ashil Lee
Nate Shinners
Haleyna Kociuk
Tallie Gabriel
Buchanan Highhouse
Margaret Remboski