By McFeely Sam Goodman
Directed by Sarah Hughes
Co-created by Limited Liability Theater Company (McFeely Sam Goodman, Sarah Hughes and Lucy Kaminsky)
New Ohio Theater
July 2019
Read more about the artists and ideas behind the piece in Culturebot.
With Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez, Lucy Kaminsky, Narea Kang, Rachel Lin, Mike Mikos, Rad Pereira
Scenic & Props Designer Ryan Goff
Lighting Designer Cha See
Sound Designer Emily Auciello
Stage Manager Allie York
Producer Alyssa Simmons
Production Management Pleiades Theater Collective
If robots are taking our jobs, why are we all still working so hard? A group of actors (actually at work onstage) delve into a dialectical exchange about Universal Basic Income, the Green New Deal, and the American economy while completing a series of strange, repetitive, and entertaining tasks that may or may not be accomplishing anything. The Drinking Bird is the first in a trilogy of plays exploring the meaning of work and the value of humans in an increasingly automated age.
This workshop showing of The Drinking Bird was presented as part of New Ohio’s 2019 Ice Factory Festival. It was previously workshopped as part of The Brick’s This Is Not Normal Festival, featuring Agnes Borinsky, Lanxing Fu, Lucy Kaminsky, J Moliêre, Stephanie Regina, and Sam Breslin Wright.
Limited Liability Theater Company uses original, unconventional, dialectical texts to create highly theatrical works addressing vital contemporary questions, myths and assumptions. The company has shown work at The Brick, chashama, Signature Theatre, Prelude, CATCH, The Invisible Dog, Little Theatre at Dixon Place, and more. Like the business structure from which it draws its name, this collaboration of McFeely Sam Goodman, Sarah Hughes, and Lucy Kaminsky is a pass-through entity; it has no offices, no staff, no annual budgets, and no bylaws.
Photos by Brian G. Aramayo.