Sunday, March 15
7 pm sharp
Free, no RSVP required
Please join us for the first New York performance of two plays in development: Diagnosis, co-written by Eleanor Ivory Weber and Cassandra Seltman, and HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA, written and directed by Erika Landström. The evening’s program sets the theatrical conventions of dialogue and monologue side by side as literary and dramatic forms irreducible to the physical presence of one or two bodies on stage.
We open with Diagnosis, followed by a brief intermission, and close with HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA. Each act runs approximately 30 minutes.
Diagnosis
Written by Eleanor Ivory Weber and Cassandra Seltman
Read by Zaid Arshad and Kai Lovelace
The time of diagnosis is perfect noon; the moment when one becomes two. The stakes are high. We’re on a world tour; we drink everything; we want to be at sea. We find ourselves looking for work, and working to locate the place of the break. Noon doesn’t arrive but dogs speech as repetition, contradiction, and waiting.
HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA
Written and directed by Erika Landström
Performed by Tess Sahara
To write without the guarantee of a receiver is to probe the re-inscription of experience in language. When an actor recalls and delivers memorized text, an excess emerges that can never be fully returned to the page, and that is her speech. HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA is a monologue reflecting on the parallels between remembering and forgetting on and off stage.