We are proud to announce that Lust & Liberty will be performing Little Mother, by Katie Green at the New York Fringe Festival
About the Company
Lust & Liberty, a theatre company based in New York City. We are a group of theater artists with a shared vision: to construct new and invigorating pieces of theater based off of the collective imagination, intellect, and skill of our company. We strive for unapologetic and visceral performances that force the audience into a dialogue with the space, performers, and context of our pieces.
About the play
Feathers, fur, skin, or scales?
The tape recorder skips. A memory misfires.
Somewhere a little bird falls from a great height.
A paper tiger crumples in its cage.
A baby is born.
A hermit crab grows too large for his shell.
Little Mother is a living silent film for the stage--a dark fairytale featuring subtitles live acting, shadow puppetry, and an original score.
Praise from the Austin production
"Katie Green's gently melancholy creation is a surprise, less an entertainment or a didactic presentation on injustice and exploitation than a quiet contemplation of desperation...Composer Shawn Jones delivers a score that's reflective and emotional, fully of the calibre of a motion picture soundtrack. The depth, power and unpredictability of the music brought to mind performances by the Kronos Quartet...The mixture of aural, visual and mimed sensations, the deliberately jumbled symbology, constitute an artistic approach that resembles what Josephine Machon has termed 'synaesthetics' or 'visceral performance.'...I look forward to seeing, reading and hearing more of the musings of Katie Green and her friends." --Michael Meigs, Central Texas Live Theatre
"Another criminally under-seen play, this short shadow-play penned by Katie Green was one of the most startling presentations this year. A fable full of whimsy, heartbreak, and horror, it uses clever puppetry, and excellent music and sound design, to tell show us dual stories of a young mother pushed to her limits to make ends meet, and a fable of two circus animals, an elephant and a chicken, whose lives change when they come across an abandoned child. The piece flows over one like a passing dream, at times a nightmare, but it’s a dream this critic simply didn’t want to wake from." -- Ryan Johnson, Austin Lifestyle Magazine (named one of the top 10 theatre productions in Austin, TX of 2013)