Welcome to the inaugural NEXUS FESTIVAL! Please join us in experiencing three new works from brilliant playwrights across the US. Each show will be playing twice through the weekend.
ADMISSION: FREE. Please reserve your seat online, walk-in seating not guaranteed. We'll see you there!
N E X U S F E S T I V A L 2 0 2 2 L I N E U P:
SATURDAY: 12pm: HALO-HALO, 3:30pm: WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS, 7:30pm: HALO-HALO
SUNDAY: 12pm: TREAT ME SOFTLY, 3:30pm: WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS, 7:30pm: TREAT ME SOFTLY
A B O U T T H E S H O W S:
TREAT ME SOFTLY by THALIA SABLON, directed by PAGES MATAM
--------PERFORMANCES on SUNDAY 12/18 at 12pm and 7:30pm--------
Treat Me Softly takes place in a not-so-distant future where society has decided to take control and study sex, intimacy, and desire through black people (in a world of just black people). Through two lenses - a sexual re-education class, and a controlled envorionment in which two people's intimacy habits are being studied - these characters, as well as we, the audience, will be part of the grand experiment to dive deeper into our intimate selves.
HALO HALO: A MIX MIX OF MYTHOLOGIES by SARAH LINA SPARKS, directed by GIOVANNI ORTEGA
--------PERFORMANCES on SATURDAY 12/17 at 12pm and 7:30pm--------
Halo-Halo: A Mix-Mix of Mythologies tells the story of a young mixed-race Filipino girl named Mary who struggles to grasp her sense of self and identity. The fantastical Happy Bird appears and leads Mary through a series of fractured and forgotten Filipino folk tales and myths told through various American and Filipino storytelling styles. Mary is faced with interludes of doubt when a clerk's office questions her credibility as a Filipino and an American. Throughout her journey, Mary discovers the story of her ancestors and learns how to embrace who she is and her community.
WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS, by CHRISTIAN ST. CROIX, directed by CHAUNTICE GREEN and JOY MARIE THOMAS
--------PERFORMANCES on SATURDAY 12/17 at 3:30pm and SUNDAY 12/18 at 3:30pm--------
On a scorching summer night at a Riverside, California motel, Archie, a queer Black man reaching the ends of several ropes, upends his life (yet again) to save his half-brother Nick from the rock bottom of a cross-county bender. As the heat rises and painful memories of their shared past begin to surface, the brothers recall an imaginary world they’d created together as children, and meet other motel residents with troubled pasts and imaginary worlds of their own. Drama and comedy blend with pirate tales, alien adventures and fantasy creatures in "We Are the Forgotten Beasts", a fantastical tale about fathers and brothers, trauma, childhood and the imagination.
A B O U T N E X U S: The meeting place between differing things, a nexus is a point of connection. Stemming from Third Culture’s mission to unite our artists and company with our audience and larger community to form a new, mutual (Third) culture, the nexus festival will enable us to promote new works that help unite ideas and communities for our audiences. We want to foster the development of emerging theatre artists and provide them space and resources to create art that speaks to our current moment and the ongoing challenges that face our world.