kiss me just once more
Michael Breslin

A boy, or a young man, retires to his bedroom but cannot sleep. He awaits his mother’s goodnight kiss. She does not come. He attempts a ritual to summon her presence. He fails.

A meditation on the relationship(s) between a queer son and his mother(s), this piece raises questions about growing up, psycho-sexual identification, and queer failure. The piece draws on a passage from Proust’s Swann’s Way, as well as a collection of classic western dramatic texts, to construct a theatrical ritual of self-revelation.

Malte’s Masks
Patrick Scheid

Malte’s Masks is a short, intimate solo work inspired by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. It investigates the layers we assume and the lengths we go to find serenity amidst urban life. Along with masks and projections illustrating the breadth of the Rilke’s Romantic imagination, our man oscillates between humor, awkwardness, and despair as he shares droll facts, faint translations, and neighbor’s dirty secrets. He will perform whatever he can to reach a desperate hand out in search of connection.

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