photo credit: Rachel Keane, Marcus Middleton
Pink Fang’s The Table confronts the drives, cravings, and unrelenting impulses that propel us toward accomplishment and apathy. A woman runs, chasing finish lines always pulled out of her grasp, discarding again and again the utensils of living. What would happen if she stopped? Prying open the murky depths of human insatiability, The Table holds a mirror to a body beholden to its own systems. In this liminal fever dream, everything could be a portal to a life force: a lamp, an umbrella, a bowl of rice, the things we desire just out of reach. Ethereal and ever-mutating, in shades of humor and hunger, five performers probe the precarity of the gravitational forces that shape our lives. Lights flicker. Chairs tip. Tables multiply. Flesh morphs into dirt. Exertion causes bleeding orifices, excavation of those inside us. The Table creates and disassembles itself, laying our desperations bare, to live inside the question: what is enough?
“fearless, vulnerable performance”
– Culturebot
CREDITS
Co-Creators: Mei Ann Teo, Erika Chong Shuch
Dramaturg: Tomi Tsunoda
Set and Costume Designer: Peiyi Wong
Lighting Designer: Tuçe Yasak
Sound Designer: Justin Hicks
Projection Designer: Hao Bai
Cast: Ching Valdes-Aran, maura nguyễn donohue, Rami Margron, Shannon Yu, Julia Gu
The Table is presented at The Gym at Judson in partnership with Judson Commons and Judson Memorial Church
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Mei Ann Teo is the Artistic Director of New Work at Pink Fang, where they make formally inventive philosophical work at the intersection of art, civic engagement, and contemplative practice. Teo is an artistic leader, director, dramaturg, and educator who works internationally and across the US in expansive genres including new plays, music theatre, devised documentary performance, and reimagined classics. They are a 2026 USA Fellow.
Erika Chong Shuch is a performance maker whose work spans experimental performance and social practice, inventing unexpected forms of audience engagement. Her work frequently features intergenerational casts of artists and non-artists, centering people whose lives and labor sit outside the spotlight. She is the co-founder of For You, a collective exploring performance as gift-giving and creative mutual aid. She is a Bay Area Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and a Visiting Artist at Stanford University.
VENUE NOTES + ACCESSIBILITY
The Gym at Judson Memorial Church
243 Thompson St.
The Gym at Judson is at the corner of Thompson Street and Washington Square South.
The nearest subway is the ACE at West 4th St.
Access
The Gym at Judson is wheelchair accessible. For further accessibility needs, please contact priyanka@pinkfang.org.
Appropriate Age Range
Recommended for General Audiences
Content Warnings
This production incorporates strobe lighting and partial nudity.
SCHEDULE
Sunday, January 17 at 5 pm
Tuesday, January 19 at 8 pm
Wednesday, January 20 at 1 pm
Thursday, January 21 at 8 pm
Friday, January 22 at 1 pm
Saturday, January 23 at 8 pm
Sunday, January 24 at 4 pm
Performances continue following Under the Radar through January 31.
VENUE
The Gym at Judson Memorial Church
243 Thompson St.
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