6/28/2023 0 Comments Lifeless moonHeyman trusts audiences to catch up with Terry’s whimsy and rejects clean, spoon-fed transitions. These gifted and stunning backup singers serve as the chorus for the entire play and redefine the limits of vocal range, from Drag show to opera aria.Įllie Heyman directed and helped develop the piece. The girls are portrayed by Avery Leigh Draut, Saretta Wesley and Morgan Meadows. You’d think Girls Scouts if their motto was “Be Prepared ” instead, it’s “Be Conniving”. His young, hot and Insta-famous neighbor, Luke, enlists him into a scheme to prove that the zoo owners have been dishonest with the public about Zoe’s fate.ĭane and Luke are guided into the fateful night of the Pepper Heights zoo coup by a trio of young teenage girls. He is the keeper of the keys to Zoe’s pen and therefore wields - unbeknownst to him - enormous power. Will she be euthanized? Should she live? It reminded me of another monochromatic creature that caught the attention of the world a few years ago: Tilikum, the colossal, captive orca of SeaWorld infamy.įor Dane, what could have been a Grindr one-night stand turns into a fantastical one-night saga. We learn that she murdered a 12 year-old. The fate of blood-thirsty Zoe the Zebra is the talk of the town. The zoo - Dane calls it a “nursing home for old money” - is going through a P.R. Is there an inherent kinship of the species? A brotherhood of man that makes no room for, say, a zebra? Dane, too, is confronted with serious Darwinian dilemmas throughout the play. The task given to riders turns out to be somewhat of a social psychology experiment, determining the general morality of humankind. The roller coaster ride serves beautifully as the spine of the show, with the various tangents and adventures Dane experiences jutting out as its giant ribs. His job is to debrief the young riders, whose task is to confirm or deny the presence of Helium on Jupiter’s moons, which they’ve just zoomed past. We meet him as he wakes to a puddle of cum on his belly - a “milky way” that leads us into the wondrous, futuristic Odyssey of his autumn in Ohio.Īfter making a poor impression at his retail job interview, Dane gets hired as a Representative of the Zenark Corporation, working at an indoor roller coaster ride at the Pepper Heights zoo. He’s having a recurring wet dream about a mysterious giant fish. Baptizing this new, old space is Dane Terry’s exciting, magical, musical piece: Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons, 100 minutes of an eccentric and tempting performance that leaves you full of wonder, like a kid after her first big roller coaster.ĭane is occupying a friend’s guest bedroom in Cleveland, OH. ![]() ![]() In its 13th and final edition, the COIL Festival returns to its East Village home, Performance Space 122. A scene from Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons in COIL.
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