The Little Death

The Little DeathThis Friday, musician Matt Marks’s “post-Christian nihilist pop opera” The Little Death will be staged at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn.  Directed by Rafael Gallegos, The Little Death has been described by New Amsterdam Records as:

an ambitious new work that fuses bombastic electro-pop hooks, frenetically chopped break beats, hypnotic lyrics, and apocalyptic Christian imagery, all in the service of a bizarre narrative that follows two characters, a boy and a girl, on a journey through the world of Fundamentalist Evangelism, as they cope with repressed sexuality in a modern world, including pop songs and gospel standards with evocative titles[….]

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Lydia Brawner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, where she studies intersections of religion and art, and a regular contributor to here & there. She serves on the editorial board of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

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