***POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC***

In Alexandra Tatarsky’s words, “I am sad, but that is fitting, since the show is called Sad Boys in Harpy Land and is about a boy drinking too much coffee and going crazy doing nothing in his bedroom, trapped in the hellscape of his mind amidst the hellscape of the world. So… the research continues.”

[Sign Felt] Sad Boys in Harpy Land

FringeArts, Philadelphia & Abrons Arts Center, NYC

An ecstatic explosion of melancholy that embraces the insights of splintered thought. Hopefully hysterical.

Alexandra Tatarsky collages narratives of art-making and despair into a deranged meditation on derangement. This unhinged solo piece from “one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around” (ArtSpace) both embraces and mocks the very idea of a one-woman show. Equal parts sad clown, demented cabaret, and extended crisis of meaning, with a sprinkling of drag, toy theater, and nonsense poetry, [SIGN FELT] Sad Boys in Harpy Land is a highly calibrated mess that journeys deep into the Dantean hellscape of the mind to ponder what might we learn from our own monstrosity in a monstrous world. 

This performance comprises one moment in Tatarsky’s SIGN FELT series, a lifelong pseudo-autobiography about nothingness.

PERFORMER/CREATOR: Alexandra Tatarsky
DIRECTOR: Eva Steinmetz
SOUND DESIGN: Adam Stone
SETS, COSTUMES, & PROPS: Andreea Mincic
LIGHTING DESIGN: Kate McGee
DRAMATURG: Basie Allen

[SIGN FELT] Sad Boys in Harpy Land was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center through the Jerome Foundation AIRspace Residency Program, and was developed through the support of the Camp Fringe residency. Research and development made possible in part by The Jilline Ringle Solo Residency Program and the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts.