Super Nothing
In the world premiere of Miguel Gutierrez’s “Super Nothing,” the quartet of performers fly through the vast, empty black box theater at New York Live Arts, small forms cast out like particles of light.
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He is the love of your life. You are his one-and-only. The pair of you is doomed: Obligations to the social order make your relationship impossible. The only way out—double suicide. Actually, this being eighteenth-century Japan, you let him literally do it all; still, you are his forever and there is no turning back. How gorgeous the world seems here in the quiet forest, on this bridge among the flowering trees, the robin’s-egg blue sky above. How handsome he is as he brings himself to standing; you sink into your kimono at his manly wonderfulness. He looks at you and speaks of his memories of making love, of the softness of your skin. But the hour is late; the bells toll.
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What a riveting, beautiful read!