Okwui Okpokwasili’s breakthrough work is fully realized for the first time at New York Live Arts as part of a multi-year collaboration. Okpokwasili’s intensely physical performance pushes against extremes—and reverberates with a potency that threatens to break the body—in this partially-true chronicle of one woman’s past.
Created in collaboration with Peter Born, Bronx Gothic draws inspiration from Victorian-era novels and West African griot storytelling to reveal a dark and powerful tale of sexual self-discovery, the (brown) body in transformation and the humor, love, strangeness and even terror that accompany it.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
Age Guidance: 13
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
NO LATE SEATING. Engagement is SOLD OUT