M-34 Productions and La MaMa ETC invite you to work-in-progress #5:
VERY FINE PEOPLE
THE TRIAL OF THE TIKI TORCH NAZIS
November 14+15
2:00pm
La MaMa ETC
47 Great Jones St.
August 2017. Unite The Right: a who's-who of the American Alt-Right, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, White Nationalists, and Aryan Identitarians gather in Charlottesville, Virginia. They carry tiki torches and chant “Jews will not replace us.” Violence and pandemonium. One attendee drives his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing one woman and injuring dozens. Then-president Donald Trump says that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
October 2021. Sines v. Kessler: the event organizers are sued in civil court by nine injured parties. They are accused of “conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence.” The trial is a baffling, chaotic farce.
Please join us November 14th & 15th at La MaMa for our SEVENTH work-in-progress
drawn from the verbatim trial transcripts:
"JURY SELECTION"
in which ordinary C'villians share their political beliefs
Featuring performances by Jacq Gregg, Marty Keiser, Patrick Harrison, Yael Haskal, Alexander Reed, David Skeist,
Reya Sehgal, Claudia Minor Troyer, and maybe you!
If you are unavailable for the presentation dates but would still like to attend,
there is an open rehearsal the afternoon of Friday, November 13th.
Please email m34productions@gmail.com for details.
During this performance, a few audience members will be interviewed as though they were potential jurors for the Sines v. Kessler trial. Please check the box below if you are willing to participate in this fashion.