The funny thing is, Mankins is probably right. He's got the audience hooked. His performance may not be profound, but it is flip, ironic, and unlike anything you'll find playing at the more staid venues in town. Billie Jo Joy is a member of Performance Cult, which stages an evening of short, individual performances every other Sunday. She wore workboots, a tutu, pigtails, and a nasty frown.
Theater has actors playing out a story on stage.
People are coming without the grid of expectation that they take to a piece heralded as theater. The performance could involve solo work, improvisation, storytelling, audience participation - or all those things. We've collected imagery that forms the basis of the work. There is no plot. And we're improvising the performance based on the stories we collect.