The Parsnip Ship invites you to Press Play: The Parsnip Podcast Experience, a free in-person day of interactive listening experiences, including two live podcast recordings of radio plays and live music produced with Business Lunch Productions.
Climb aboard and press play with Parsnip on Saturday, June 8th, 2024 at JACK in Brooklyn (20 Putnam Ave), doors open at 11:00 AM. The event kicks off at noon with the launch party of 12 CHAIRS by Jesse Jae Hoon, directed by Charlotte Murray.
Following in the day’s line-up are two live episode recordings: TRENZAS by Janelle Lawrence and directed by Jean Carlo at 4:00 PM; and BIRD OF PREY by Darrel Alejandro Holnes, directed by Phillip Christian Smith at 8:00 PM.
Each intimate event will intentionally have limited audiences and include free food and drink for audience members who attend.
12 CHAIRS - Interactive Listening Launch Party
By Jesse Jae Hoon (He/Him/His)
Directed by Charlotte Murray
Musical Guest Mike O’Malley
Sound Design by Nina Field
Dramaturgy by Gabriella Steinberg and Al Parker
Featuring Brandon Bogle, Amanda Centeno, Arielle Gonzalez, Ben Langhorst, Angel Lin, and Frankie Placidi.
Former nobleman Ippolit Mateyevich Vorobyaninov’s dreary life in the early Soviet Union is about to change forever when he discovers his spiteful mother-in-law hid the family jewels in one of their dining room chairs before the Revolution. Together with a dashing con artist, Vorobyaninov must embark on an epic quest across Russia to recover the lost riches. Based on the 1928 novel by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, 12 Chairs is an epic adventure satire exploring glory, greed, and a country desperate for the advancement of the collective good. It is a commentary on the Soviet Union and nothing else. Yeah, nothing else. You can’t prove otherwise, you haven’t even seen it. Wow, maybe you should see the play before contradicting us, you ever think about that? Wow. There’s always one. Do better.
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TRENZAS
By Janelle Lawrence (They/Them/Theirs)
Directed by Jean Carlo Yunen A.
Musical Guest Two32
Assimilation can be difficult. So can growing up in an Afro-Latinx home with a mother who is holding on to her distorted nationalist Dominican past. Alisha and Carmela both have to learn to navigate their color-influenced worlds with the knowledge and outlook their mother has given them. Assimilation is based on societal influence, but what do we call the expectations passed down by our culture? And what do we do with those messages?
BIRD OF PREY
By Darrel Alejandro Holnes (He/Him/His)
Directed by Phillip Christian Smith
Musical Guest Justice LaBrave
Shaquille's attempt at suicide is disrupted when Jem, the ghost of a fellow soldier killed for being gay, suddenly appears and makes a proposition: Shaq must share his body with Jem's soul instead of sacrificing it to the vultures in exchange for absolution. With an impending hurricane forcing his hand, Shaquille must quickly choose between saving a fellow soldier he failed to save at war or escaping his worldly problems by starting over in the afterlife.
EVENT DETAILS
JACK
20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Saturday, June 8th, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
