La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the world premiere of To Build a Soul, a new solo work by downtown playwright and performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre, from Thursday, December 2 through Sunday, December 12, 2021. The new semi-autobiographical play, directed by Dusty Childers, is Sayre’s second piece to debut at La MaMa, following Love’s Refrain in 2016.
To Build a Soul, in Sayre’s words, is “an artistic autobiography, of myself and the artists who’ve guided me, a genre-blending piece that drives at the role of art in our modern age of digital artifice. As the online world is filled more and more with our images of the lives we thought we could live, what does it mean to be an artist creating art in the world? Written during the pandemic, To Build a Soul is a love letter to the theatre if I never made it back.”
With To Build A Soul, Sayre also launches a season of projects including a new play in The Public Theater’s “Under the Radar” festival in January 2022, monthly shows at Joe’s Pub at the Public and a new piece at San Francisco’s Sketchfest, which will move to the Edinburgh International Festival. The publication of Sayre’s new book From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium from Chronicle Books debuts in May, and in June, the 10th annual “Night of a Thousand Judys” Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center continues.
Tickets, which are $25 in advance and $30 day of show, can be purchased at www.lamama.org.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre is located at 66 East 4th Street, basement level New York, NY 10003.
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