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Jenn Kidwell and the blackening
we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism
Presented by The Flea Theater
photo: Jaamil Olawole
an anti-capitalist ritual comedy in which performers and audience together explore value, labor, and currency.
Eyyyyyy, capitalism is trying to holler at you. Whatever will you say… Fuck around and find out over 90-ish minutes of comedic performance stylings that beg your engagement. An emerging vision instigated and performed by Jenn Kidwell, with Brandon Kazen-Maddox, Jordan McCree, and artistic collective the blackening, this workshop performance of we come to collect melds genres from stand up, to performance art, to carnival, and questions work-life’s inherent imbalance. Come through, you cute little miracle, you.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, January 9th @ 5pm
Friday, January 10 @ 5pm
Saturday, January 11 @ 8pm
Sunday, Jan 12 @ 12pm
Monday, January 13 @ 3pm
Wednesday, January 15 @ 7pm
Thursday, January 16 @ 7pm
Friday January 17 @ 3:30pm
Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
VENUE
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street,
NYC, NY 10007
Access:
We have an elevator that provides access to all our entrances/exits, theaters, and gender-neutral restrooms in the building. There are 14 Listen Technologies Receivers with headsets available for use.
CREDITS
the blackening is Jarvis Benson, Juliette Jones, Jennifer Kidwell, Jaamil Olawole Kosoko, Adam Lazarus, Jordan McCree and Ashlin Parker. They are a nascent collective of artists composed of musicians, clowns and performance artists, discovering how to make public performance works together.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jennifer Kidwell is a performing artist. Recent original projects – Those With 2 Clocks (The Wilma Theater), Underground Railroad Game (2017 Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work; 2018 Edinburgh Fringe First Award; Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes nominations). Recent performances – The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Co.), Ocean Filibuster (PearlDamour), Eternal Life Part 1, Fat Ham (2021 film) and Antigone (The Wilma Theater), jaamil olawole kosoko’s Syllabus for Black Love, Geoff Sobelle’s Home (2018 Bessie Award), Adrienne Truscott’s Still Asking for It (Joe’s Pub), Superterranean, Fire Burns Hot: Little Reno!, I Promised Myself to Live Faster and 99 Break-Ups (Pig Iron Theatre Company). Published in jaamil olawole kosoko’s “Black Body Amnesia” and movement research Performance Journal #45 and at hyperallergic.com. 2020 Visiting Artist Duke University, 2021 Visiting Artist UPenn. 2013 TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, 2015, 2021 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant, 2016 Pew Fellow, 2017 Independence Fellowship, 2020 Ruthie Award & Hodder Fund Grant, 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee.
CREATION + FUNDING
we come to collect was commissioned by Woolly Mammoth’s Weissberg Commission program and developed with support from MCA Chicago, the Ucross Foundation Residency, Under the Radar’s UFO series, Venturous Theatre Fund, Subcircle Residency Program, and The Flea.
