CIRCLE JERK
CONCEIVED AND WRITTEN BY MICHAEL BRESLIN AND PATRICK FOLEY
DIRECTED BY RORY PELSUE
IN COLLABORATION WITH CAT RODRÍGUEZ, ARIEL SIBERT
ABOUT
It’s winter on Gayman Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and fame-ish. It’s off-season, but two White Gay internet trolls hatch a plot to get the world turned on. Cancelations, meme schemes, and political and erotical flip flops abound as three actors play out this chaotic quick-change, live-streamed descent into the high-energy, low-brow shitpit of the internet.
Drawing on Ridiculous Theater conventions and SciFi tropes, the show also features everything that's hot nowadays: Identity politics, TikTok, radical ideology, and, gasp, a plot!
IN DEVELOPMENT
Ars Nova’s Makers Lab 2019-2020
Prelude Festival at CUNY Graduate Center (October 2019)
Little Theater at Dixon Place
(February 2020)