minor b

minor b is commissioned by The Shed and presented in association with Ping Chong and Company. The performance will run from August 9-10 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater .

minor b is a play. it's an unfinished play about love. More specifically it's a love letter to my lead actor Jim Fletcher, or perhaps it's a love letter to the white downtown theatrical avantgarde of the early 2000’s or maybe it’s my swan song to the one who got away. The performance follows a Board Member at the Shed who falls in love with a much younger commissioned artist named Nile. Running parallel to this is a fictive gesture of a jazz musician, inspired by the cornetist, Buddy Bolden, who was New Orleans’ innovator of jazz until he went “mad” and spent the remainder of his life in a mental asylum. I’ll play the part of Buddy Bolden, I mean Nile, I mean Bolden and play the clarinet and tell you why I’ve gone mad. What did Solange say in the elevator? “There’s a lot to be mad about”. The black box theater can feel like a cage—I mean a stage. And sometimes these institutional invitations can feel like a trap. Why do I feel like I’m losing my mind? Maybe it’s because I love Him.

For sold out performances, an in-person wait list will be available 15 minutes before the show begins.