The Tyranny of Structurelessness Tom Cole

About This Show

People would try to use the structureless groups out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive.

 — Jo Freeman

After a series of escalating sado-masochistic relationships, he embarks upon a ‘normal’ relationship. What ensues is far more terrifying than anything that came before….

‘I imagine myself splitting into two — leaving one of me behind with the Leather Family while the real me, the me who goes back to work carrying a bottle of crimson vitamin water — his heart draws back at the power of the other’s will and its engagement with disaster — this nihilism, it’s real, call Ripley, he won’t believe it.’

About the Artist

Tom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side.  His work has been presented at Participant Inc, Petit Versailles, Thread Waxing Space, Art on Air, Dixon Place, Clocktower Gallery, ICA Boston, Performa, and the Boston Center for the Arts.  He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow and a 2015 Edward Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. He heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Craig Lucas, and Sheila Callaghan, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders, a literary series at Dixon Place.  He has collaborated extensively with Anohni, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at the Kitchen.

Saturday, July 20,2019 at 7:30PM

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students/Seniors/IDNYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Estimated Runtime
70 minutes

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