Listen in as Tessa Flannery, playwright/performer of the new play Tentacles in the 2018 FRIGID Festival, along with her director, Rebecca Cunningham, discuss naming your characters after your actors, keeping calm in the face of technical difficulties, “on-brand failure,” and how to layer difficult social issues into your show about hentai.
“…I love working on shows that have strong women as the leads, but I also really love when they’re flawed, and the character Tessa is not perfect, and is certainly privileged and is coming at it from that perspective, and so we throw that at her…”
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Voyage Theater Company presents
Tentacles
written by Tessa Flannery
directed by Rebecca Cunningham
remaining performances:
Thu Feb 15, 2018 | 10:30PM
Sat Feb 17, 2018 | 2:10PM
Wed Feb 21, 2018 | 8:50PM
Fri Feb 23, 2018 | 8:50PM
Fri Mar 2, 2018 | 5:30PM
Under St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place
Manhattan
tickets: $10, available via Vendini
photos by Ryan Smith
photos by Jody Christopherson