s t o r y o f m y e y e
is a vaudevillian meta-pageant; it’s a public access variety show; it’s a saturnalia of excessive grotesquery that dips into psuedo-sincerity! It’s food! It’s sex! It’s television! It’s a one-hour romp into media and sexuality, with a 3-channel VHS symphony as a backdrop.
p r e s s
Broad Street Review (1) Broad Street Review (2)
The Morning Call
Performance Is Alive Philadelphia Magazine
Phindie
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h i s t o r yFall 2015: created in residency at Center for PerformanceResearch in Brooklyn, NY and at Towson University
Winter 2015: episode iv: cool as a cucumber premiered at GLASSHOUSE (Brooklyn, NY) as part of the Plays of Domesticity event
April 2016: premiere at Towson University (Towson, MD)
August 2016: Fields Festival (Darlington, MD)
September 2016: Philadelphia Fringe Festival @ Kung Fu Necktie (Philadelphia, PA)
November 2016: Dixon Place (NYC)
January 2017: Psychic Readings Co. (Baltimore, MD)
is a vaudevillian meta-pageant; it’s a public access variety show; it’s a saturnalia of excessive grotesquery that dips into psuedo-sincerity! It’s food! It’s sex! It’s television! It’s a one-hour romp into media and sexuality, with a 3-channel VHS symphony as a backdrop.
p r e s s
Broad Street Review (1) Broad Street Review (2)
The Morning Call
Performance Is Alive Philadelphia Magazine
Phindie
h i s t o r y
Winter 2015: episode iv: cool as a cucumber premiered at GLASSHOUSE (Brooklyn, NY) as part of the Plays of Domesticity event
April 2016: premiere at Towson University (Towson, MD)
August 2016: Fields Festival (Darlington, MD)
September 2016: Philadelphia Fringe Festival @ Kung Fu Necktie (Philadelphia, PA)
November 2016: Dixon Place (NYC)
January 2017: Psychic Readings Co. (Baltimore, MD)
c o n c e p t
& d i r e c t i o n
zach trebino
c r e a t i o n
jenni messner
& zach trebino
p e r f o r m a n c e
jenni messner
& zach trebino
e n v i r o n m e n t
zach trebino
s o u n d & v i d e o
zach trebino
l i g h t s
eric bowers
c o s t u m e s
& m a k e u p
devin o’neill
t h e c h a p b o o k
I made a pamphlet-cum-chapbook-cum-manifesto to ‘explain’ the show but it doesn’t explain much at all. It’s more of a way to continue audience engagement post-experience - composed of original poems and essays, indecipherable quotations, screenshots, and some original images:
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& d i r e c t i o n
zach trebino
c r e a t i o n
jenni messner
& zach trebino
p e r f o r m a n c e
jenni messner
& zach trebino
e n v i r o n m e n t
zach trebino
s o u n d & v i d e o
zach trebino
l i g h t s
eric bowers
c o s t u m e s
& m a k e u p
devin o’neill
t h e c h a p b o o k
I made a pamphlet-cum-chapbook-cum-manifesto to ‘explain’ the show but it doesn’t explain much at all. It’s more of a way to continue audience engagement post-experience - composed of original poems and essays, indecipherable quotations, screenshots, and some original images:
MEDIA GALLERY
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