Just as awards season hits high gear – signaling the end of one theatrical season – another is already underway. I'm touching base a second time with some shows and also heading out to catch new productions. This weekend, for instance, I'm going to be off to P.S. 122 for what's being described as a high-octane indie rock musical, LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son. Press notes describe it as being Rocky Horror meets Greek Tragedy meets Baz Luhrmann in this savage send-up of a country hell bent on escapism, voyeurism and very carnal pleasures – even when all around it things are falling apart. It's Phaedra as seen by the eyes of The Shalimar, and this one played to sold-out houses last year at FringeNYC. You have just through the 24th to catch this one.
Starting up while "FEMME" is running is a show from Dublin’s Pan Pan Theatre which is presenting the New York premiere of Oedipus Loves You, a wicked, funny take on the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Seneca and their legacy, Freudian psychology. To give you a sense of what this award-winning and globe-trotting – they're coming to NYC fresh from Beijing of all places – is about, this comes from press materials: "Oedipus is still counseled by the wise Tiresias, but the sightless sage is now a Freudian analyst and ex-Glam Rocker. Sexual desire still runs unchecked and tensions bubble away, but now the backdrop is the barbecue grill of Oedipus’s suburban hideaway." "Loves You" is going to play at P.S. 122 from May 21 through June 1.
Like I said, I'll be catchin' "Femme" this weekend, and expect to catch "Loves You" right after the Memorial Day holiday. For anyone stayin' in town, the two together sound like a great rockin' way to spend that unofficial beginning of summer.
QUICK LINK: www.ps122.org
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