Aztec Economy's Battleplays

Thursday, May 7
Friday, May 8
Admission: $10, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30pm
reservations are recommended

Aztec Economy’s Battleplays (Installment 1 & 2) w/ Everybody Row’s The Queen is Dead: An examination on the masculine and feminine psyche-in-crisis, BATTLE plays vol. 2 employs an elaborate mixture of video and soundscape to explore the relationship between isolation, obsession, live performance, American myth, and popular culture. Two mediums. Two actors. Two American classics reconstructed in 60 minutes.

Bring Me The Head Of John Ford (approx. 30 min)

Bring Me The Head of John Ford is a one-man, one-act production that uses video projection and live performance to examine the effects of isolation, obsession, and the relationship between fantasy and reality, voyeurism and spectacle, and the male psyche in crisis. Confined in an area of 6 X 6 feet square, Fid enacts a ritual of mono-maniacal obsession with a classic Spaghetti Western. Like a director’s commentary gone mad, Bring Me The Head of John Ford is both a humorous and dark examination of cinephilia and the oedipus complex on the frontier of culture in America.

AntiGone With the Wind (approx. 30 min)


Mixing densely layered audio sequences including voiceovers, classical scores, environmental compositions, battle field sound effects, and a chorus of barking dogs, Antigone With the Wind is a one-woman live performance that explores mythology and American culture through the prism of the feminine psyche-in-crisis. Like a psychological audio-book of romance, fantasy humor and suffering, this short performance plays out on a thin peripheral boundary and meditates on slavery, isolation, and sound.

The Queen is Dead (approx. 20 min)

Ace sends the Queen to see the King and his Jack. Mayhem ensues: bourbon, horses, heroin, Bette Midler, and Belorussian roulette. A short film premiere by Everybody Row films.

Links:
www.newyorkisdead.net
www.everybodyrowfilms.com