Lightning Rod Presents:
Q-Stage: New Works Series
(Curated Rental)
November 2-4 & 10-11, 2023
Week One
Featuring new work from playwright Johanna Keller Flores and multi-disciplinary performer Atim Opoka
Thursday-Saturday, November 2-4, 2023
Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 7:30
Total duration: approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes
There will be a 10-minute intermission between performances.
Masks strongly recommended for audience members.
Tickets: $5-25
Week Two
Featuring a one-night-only durational performance from installation artist MALFLOR (Kieran Myles Andres Tverbakk)
Friday, November 10, 2023
Doors/pre-show at 7:00, performance begins at 7:30. Absolutely no late seating after 7:45.
Duration: 90 minutes. There will be no intermission.
Created and performed by MALFLOR
Directed by Marcela Michelle
Featuring: Creeping Charlie & Arlo Sombor
Tickets: $5-25
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Artist talk with MALFLOR, aegor ray, and Marcela Michelle
Doors open at 5:45 pm, talk begins at 6:00 pm.
Duration: 45-55 minutes. Refreshments served.
Week One
Featuring new work from playwright Johanna Keller Flores and multi-disciplinary performer Atim Opoka
Johanna Keller Flores (Photo: Valerie Oliveiro)
Atim Opoka (Photo: Valerie Oliveiro)
We are excited to return to Red Eye Theater to share two new works from two exciting queer artists.
JOHANNA KELLER FLORES will share a reading of her new play:
ANGELITA
In this play reading we follow Yani across three stages of her life as she confronts her big feelings with the help of an angel and questions what it means to try to be a good person?
With direction from Marcela Michelle, the play will be read by Quinn Avery as Yani and Johanna Keller Flores as Angelita, with Ellis Perez reading stage directions.
ATIM OPOKA will share a new multidisciplinary work:
THE CALL
The Call is a journey that explores finding and living your truth through the lens of the Black Ancestral Experience.
The Call will be performed by Atim Opoka and Gugu Sikosona.
Week Two
Featuring a one-night-only durational performance from installation artist MALFLOR (Kieran Myles Andres Tverbakk)
Kieran Myles Andres Tverbakk (Photo: Valerie Oliveiro)
We are excited to return to Red Eye Theater to present this debut performance from MALFLOR, as well as an artist talk the following day.
We will only be selling 60 presale tickets to this event and holding 20 tickets at the door for walk up.
EQUILIBRIA
a performance exploring the body as a site of constant transition
The earth is a body / in transition / water, air, heat, soil / a corporeal entity of many elements / function in collaboration / to sustain life.
The body is an earth / in transition / organs, water, blood, bones, tissue, muscles / in constant search of equilibrium / to sustain life.
A body is not neutral / a body is in constant experience / a body knows even when the brain does not.
A body is a vessel that holds / memory / stress / anticipation / trauma / love / elongated shifts /
De la tierra emerjo y a la tierra vuelvo / Fra jorden dunker jeg opp og til jorden kommer jeg tilbake
Production Team
Executive Artistic Director: Marcela Michelle
Artistic Co-Director: Keila Anali Saucedo
Stage Manager: Connor Berkompas
Lighting Designer: Von
Assistant Stage Manager: Simone Bernadette Williams
Photographer: nouf saleh
Videographer: Maddie Granlund
Advisory Ensemble: Valerie Oliveiro, aegor ray, Johanna Keller Flores, Maddie Granlund, Keila Anali Saucedo, Marcela Michelle