A RARE BIRD*
Breaking the Binary Theater Festival @ Playwrights Horizons
Unboxable Artist, Sonic Ritualist, and Actor Zaza Diana Oh’s (they/them) A Rare Bird is pulled from THE DESIRE ARCHIVES, Oh's year-long personal study on epigenetics, desire, and the brain. A Rare Bird is an interdisciplinary choreo-play, Live Physical Intimacy, and Quiet and Honest Sex Show, as it captures Skye and Gabriel’s date on the carpeted floor against the couch of a studio apartment where neither is willing or able to make the first move. A Rare Bird blends, defies, and subverts Erotic Thriller Cinema, Narrative Play, Stage Sex Show, and finally the Quiet and Slow Sex Education so many of us long for. While seeking Refuge in Ceremony, this is an ode to Introversion, (loud) pauses, and letting less be.
2024 | New York, NY
Production Stage Manager
Writer/Director/Performer: Zaza Diana Oh
Performers: Mei Ann Teo, Akane Little
Assistant Director/Acting Coach: Michi Zaya
Asssistant Director/Movement Coach: Shannon Yu 余香儒
Intimacy Director: Alex Might
Sound Designer: Christopher Darbassie
Photo: MCP Photo
*staged reading