Eat Your Mother / Es, es!
June 23rd 2024 at 7:00pm

Sophie Kreitzberg Ruth Geye Corbin Allardice Beila Ungar Sophie Hurwitz Jay Saper Kopl Hirsch KD Dretler Aviv Van Etten

Eat Your Mother is a patchwork performance piece stitching together works from the archive of the Yiddish theater, original compositions, and brand-new translations into Yiddish. Featuring: The Petoskey Breasted Mermaid of Adrienne Rich, a Yiddish-language trans reclamation and recrimination of the poet’s life and afterlife; Jewish Drag Kings; a visit from the Beep-Boop Barry Sisters; a never-before-staged one-act by early 20th century Yiddish playwright Jane Rose; and more. GLYK is a queer Yiddish theatre collective dedicated to fucking around in the archives. Inspired by the tradition of kleynkunst (literally meaning "little art), an early 20th century Yiddish theater mode attempting to overcome the distinctions between amateur/professional, art/life, and audience/performer, GLYK weaves our 21st c. queer sensibility with that of 20th c. shund ("trash") theatre, through short scenes, poems, and songs. Eat Your Mother / Es, es! examines our relationship to queer and feminist lineages, and maybe our actual mothers.

*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.