ASHER HARTMAN: THE MOMMY LEAKS THE FLOOR

THE MOMMY LEAKS THE FLOOR
ASHER HARTMAN

With José Luis Blondet, Michael Bonnabel, Arne Gjelten, and Philip Littell

Friday, May 16, 8PM
Saturday, May 17, 8PM
Sunday, May 18, 8PM
Thursday, May 22, 8PM – EXTRA SHOW
Friday, May 23, 8PM
Saturday, May 24, 8PM
Sunday, May 25, 8PM

The ineluctable ovary sweetens the knob. The eye rests in the trench of the tongue. Mommy knows how to go down. On the parapet She says, sit in my folds, sit by, Let’s do a play. Yes, let’s do a play, She sssssazzz. She holds their hands, before the men leap, before we happen upon their unrecognizable one time bones. Something came out of me, gentlemen, a sticky weeping song.

We used to scribble notes to each other in the theater, star, starfucker, sad, sadder, saddest. Harmless jibes from little players in a theater that always stood by us, even when abandoning Her from the feeling we weren’t getting what we wanted, which was to be noticed. Rarely did we think of her radicality, her force, her deep and holy dark as a container for our own. There are secrets here, ghosts, fumbling embarrassed loves, heartaches. We’d recite her rituals, snatching them from Africa, the global South, Asia, junky Europa. We forgot that she kills you, that her job is to drag you home.

This cannot be a play, only a stuttering ceremonial joke.

Written and Directed by
ASHER HARTMAN

Assistant Direction
LUNA IZPISUA RODRIGUEZ

Sound Design and Live Music
JASMINE ORPILLA

Set Design
OLIVIA MOLE

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Asher Hartman is a visual artist, writer, director, and maker of live performances. His works are dense, visual, poetic embodied texts, infused with clown and cringe humor, evidence of trance and psychic journeying, set in engulfing installations designed to disorient, unnerve, and elicit strong feeling – while grappling with social and political issues in an era of chronic crisis. Hartman is the director and founder of Gawdafful National Theater, a group of visual artists, actors, and performance artists with whom he has created since 2010.

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