In conjunction with the exhibition Movements Toward Freedom, Brooklyn-based artists Steffani Jemison and writer Quincy Flowers present the newly commissioned performance, Flight Theater, a play about freedom, water, work, and the weather.
Here’s one story: somebody is obsessed with meteorology and the impossibility of accurately predicting the only thing we really want to know—whether it will rain tomorrow. Here’s another: somebody reminisces about a series of bad jobs, near misses, and desperate escapes that lead him to uncharted waters—literally.
Flight Theater is an interdisciplinary meditation on the fantasy of a God’s-eye-view, the possibility of escape, and the enduring seduction of untethering ourselves from Earth. It’s also a journey from Henry “Box” Brown to Dungeons and Dragons, Ousmane Sembène, chaos theory, assembly lines, Henry Doppler, sailing, and whether it’s really so bad to get wet every once in a while.
Flight Theater features Steffani Jemison and Quincy Flowers with music by Cellista and lighting design by Kate Bashore.
Free parking is available at North High School.
