Last Chance Traveling Medicine Show

The Last Chance Traveling Medicine Show is a site-specific cabaret staged in dead-end streets and hidden corners of New York City. Set in a not-so-distant future where authoritarianism has taken hold and public gatherings are forbidden, a troupe of musicians, storytellers, and performers travels under cover of darkness offering an illegal medicine show—not miracle cures, but songs, stories, rituals, and collective remedies for fear, isolation, propaganda, and historical amnesia. Drawing from American folk traditions, vaudeville, labor theater, protest music, and dark cabaret, the performance asks: How do ordinary people remain human inside systems designed to make them afraid of one another?

NOTE: Each performance is at a different dead end location. 

Thursday June 18th, 8pm Lower East Side, Manhattan: Stanton and Attorney Streets

Friday June 19th, 8pm Gowanus, Brooklyn: 2nd Ave. and 5th St.

Saturday June 20th, 8pm Bushwick, Brooklyn: Meserole St. and Gardener Ave.

Accessibility: Some seats will be available.  Most tickets are for standing room outside.

Age: 15+

Created and Directed by Monica Dudárov Hunken

Featuring and Devised with:
Tom Ross
Bry Payne
Philip Santos Schaffer (banjo and percussion)
Phil Andrews (guitar, banjo and trombone)
Monica Dudárov Hunken (concertina and ukulele)

Musical Accompaniment:
Heather Cole (violin)

Special Guest Appearance:
Anna Tsomo Leidecker