GRINDHOUSE

This event has passed. Sorry you missed it!
When
Apr. 12–14, 2024
Daily, Times vary
Cost: Sliding Scale
Where
The Mansion
Secret Location

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Late at night, one house stands out from the others: its glowing door taunting you — like an enormous chewing mouth. “Come inside,” it jeers — and you do. 

This is GRINDHOUSE, an original site-specific theater piece produced for the 2024 Fertile Ground Festival by the creative minds of Basement Stair Collective, Rachel Lindsey Routh, Kora Link, Becca Wirta, and Claire Elizabeth Aldridge — with projection and video design by Clifton Holznagel and props design by Gwyneth Bushman. In the bowels of a living monster home, societal archetypes are on the menu tonight. Once inside, you meet the residents of the belly of the beast: a doll-like family trapped in a stomach-churning clockwork cycle of desperation marked by the ticking away of a measured soundscape building to a boiling point. Using a design-forward process, heightened repetition, and grotesque movement at a dinner party setting, GRINDHOUSE exposes that the environment we live in may be consuming us while asking the question: Could we survive outside of it?

(address will be shared upon ticket purchase)