Princes of Darkness is a jack-in-the-box of existential angst, a Lynchian montage of lonely neuroses colored in grays, light and bright red sins. The production incorporates a film noir style of redundant action -- a cruel microscope on the creased cheek of lost vitality, empathy, sanity -- and the visual elements of a moth-eaten vaudevillian trunk show.

Meanwhile, as we attempt to dissect the patterns his uneasy soft-shoe has left in the dust, or guess the next magician's shop trick (perhaps a rabbit from a hat?) he will next deploy, we discover that we have dropped our guard in this sacred space to a conniving entity we thought benign and obsolete. He has caused us to let him into our minds, if only for a moment, and let him dance around that voyeuristic center of human fecundity, his songs ringing sharply between our teeth. (Cue evil laugh. Lights flicker and fade. Darkness.)
Princes of Darkness
Written and Performed by Bill Connington
Director and Choreographer: Rachel Klein
Lighting Design: Kia Rogers
Sound Design: Sean Gill
Costume Design: Rachel Klein
Theatre for the New City
155 1st Avenue
Sunday, August 8: 7:00pm
Wednesday, August 11: 9:00pm
Thursday, August 12: 9:00pm
Friday, August 13: 9:00pm
Saturday, August 14: 7:00pm
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