The Glass Bang
“Premiere:
Originally presented as THE FLORIDA ROOM by Cannonball, Miami, FL
April 2013
As THE GLASS BANG:
Presented first at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture’s R.M. Schindler house in THE MACHINE PROJECT’S FIELD GUIDE TO L.A. ARCHITECTURE, a part of the Getty’s initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in Los Angeles; and in San Francisco by Southern Exposure
June 2013
Written and directed by Asher Hartman
Assistant director: Zuty Lorz
Created in collaboration with Franc Baliton, Rochelle Fabb, Michael Morrissey, Paul Outlaw and Joe Seely; Lauren Baba (violin), Jake Rosenzweig (bass), Jasmine Orpilla (percussion)
Musical direction by Jasmine Orpilla
Costume consultation by Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
Graphic design by Haruko Tanaka”
Gavin Rose (Outlaw) comes home from a long journey to find his house-sitters Evan and Byron have taken his furniture, redecorated, and are living with a barfly, Brian, in his now unrecognizable home. They throw a party for Gavin’s return, inviting his ex-wife, Cheyenne, and twenty strangers (the audience). During the course of the party, Bryon slowly becomes a bird-god, altering the course of the evening from cocktails to an interweaving of subtexts around money, class, possession and murder.