Floorwork Arts Collective to stage immersive play ‘Private Nature’ at Box of Moonlight in December
Floorwork Arts Collective stages "Private Nature," an immersive play set in an animal sanctuary that is a swingers club by night, at Box of Moonlight in Bed-Stuy from December 4 through December 13. Tickets are $25 to $55.
Floorwork Arts Collective to stage immersive play ‘Private Nature’ at Box of Moonlight in December
Floorwork Arts Collective stages "Private Nature," an immersive play set in an animal sanctuary that is a swingers club by night, at Box of Moonlight in Bed-Stuy from December 4 through December 13. Tickets are $25 to $55.
Floorwork Arts Collective is staging “Private Nature,” a site-specific immersive play written by Matti Parone, at Box of Moonlight, 17 Saratoga Ave. in Bed-Stuy, with six performances from December 4 through December 13. Each show runs from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and tickets are $25 to $55.
The play unfolds inside a fictional Colorado venue called The Ranch, described as an animal sanctuary by day and a swingers club by night. The story drops the audience into an “animal instincts” fundraiser thrown to save The Ranch as a megachurch across the highway, watchful police and a community steeped in family values close in on what the collective calls “The Lifestyle.” Six local hedonists carry the evening’s secrets, gossip and sabotage. The premise is based on an actual squirrel rehab center in Parone’s hometown, and the collective describes the piece as “a satiric tragicomedy about the white suburbs, shame, and the lengths we’ll take to feed the beasts of uncompromised comfort.”
“Private Nature” is Parone’s debut and is directed by Mara Einson and Sarah Powers, with an ensemble of Floorwork creatives. The production uses flashes…
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