United Solo Theatre Festival

Name: United Solo Theatre Festival
Start: 2024-11-15T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Theatre Row

Friday, Nov 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. EST

Theatre Row

410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036

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The 17th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival

Featuring shows from across the country and around the globe, the world's largest solo theatre festival is entering our seventeenth season!

7pm: You Can't Be Serious - Starring Andrea Parson

A final bow in Germany, a cancer diagnosis, a death, a cookie, a conversation with God. In this evening of solo dance and storytelling Andrea Parson responds to the loss of her sister to breast cancer in 2020. "You Can't Be Serious" is a tragic and comedic story about witnessing, and grappling with death. Andrea sinks to the bottom, attempts a stand up routine and shines a light into the deepest waters of the ocean. The audience is pulled toward Andrea as she asks them questions about death and love. A dance between down and up, between the weight of tears and the levity of laughter, each movement of this story collides into the next in a captivating collage of grief, and brings death fully to life.

Originally developed in a residency program in Portland, OR with From the Ground UP (2021), "You Can't Be Serious" made its world premier at BodyVox Dance Center in 2023 with direction and dramaturgy by Katherine Murphy Lewis, and an original sound score by Joe Kye. Since then the show has been presented at the Oregon Fringe Festival, Hollywood Fringe Festival and will make its NYC debut at the United Solo Festival Fall 2024.

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