This 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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