Title: Circle Jerk
Venue and Format: Filmed and streamed live
Innovation: Circle Jerk combines quick changes and live chat, theatricality and the post-COVID live-stream, to take on the laptop-orchestrated shitshow that is online life and its political discontents. It will be a new form made of old parts: An experimental film. A hijacked Instagram story. A queer, deranged live-audience sitcom featuring Gen-Z TikToks. The mark of a bunch of queer theater artists working together in the time of COVID, of uprising, of our lives.
It’s winter on Gaymen Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and fame-ish. This off-season, two White Gay internet trolls hatch a plot to take back what’s wrongfully theirs. Cancellations, meme schemes, and political and erotical flip flops abound as three actors playing nine parts play out this chaotic live-streamed descent into the high-energy, low-brow, quick-change shitpit of the internet.
THEATRE/COMPANY: Fake Friends
ARTISTS:
Writers: Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
Director: Rory Pelsue
Actors: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Catherine Maria “Cat” Rodriguez
DATE OF PREMIERE: October 18, 2020
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: Online, Livestream, Interactive, Social Media
