Catastrophic Theatre
THEY DO NOT MOVE by Brian Jucha with the Catastrophic ensemble
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesUsing found text, music, stylized physicality, and an abundance of pop culture references, THEY DO NOT MOVE winds its way through an imagined American future in which democracy has been defeated and a disorganized band of vagrants, waifs, and strays are hunted by monarchist forces. Their only defense? An expressionist cavalcade of song and dance. …
CLEANSED by Sarah Kane (Regional Premiere) at The Catastrophic Theatre
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Catastrophic Theatre presents CLEANSED by Sarah Kane. In a former university, society’s “undesirables” are subjected to a series of tortures designed to test the limits of human love on the battlefield of the human body. Explosively aching, hauntingly poetic, and disarmingly tender, CLEANSED is a fever-dream fable of unimaginable brutality and miraculous beauty. CLEANSED …
It Is Magic
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Catastrophic Theatre presents the Houston premiere of IT IS MAGIC by Mickle Maher. “Things are getting crazy at the local Playhouse…” Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in an adult adaptation of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic …
Spirits to Enforce
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Catastrophic Theatre presents SPIRITS TO ENFORCE by Mickle Maher. A group of telefundraisers attempt to raise money for an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, to be performed by local superhero team “The Fathom Town Enforcers.” Things aren’t looking good at the phone bank. They haven’t raised a dime, rehearsals are a disaster, and …