The Tank’s Fall 2024 Season
The fall season will include Vile Isle by Justin Halle and directed by Spencer Whale; Sunset, Eclipsed by Seagulls by Deniz Khateri; Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie by Ethan Crystal & Garrett Poladian and directed by Patrick Swailes Caldwell; Deadclass, Ohio by Goat Exchange; and Testing² by Soomi Kim.
VILE ISLE
Written by Justin Halle
Directed by Spencer Whale
Co-Produced by Most Unwanted
SEPTEMBER 13-OCTOBER 6, 2024
In seven days the world will end by Flood—at least according to drag queen Lizzie Fine, who receives a frightening prophecy of Old Testament proportions. Meanwhile, a gaggle of gay "chosen family" considers unchoosing each other. Nathan the Demon Twink seeks transcendence through Kabbalah (and Adderall), Christopher bravely transitions (into a DJ), and Gnocchi the Cat WILL be Bat Mitzvah'd, God willing. Vile Isle is a precocious and party-fueled dark comedy about how we fail and forgive one another and what faith is worth when our limits are existentially tested.
DEADCLASS, OHIO
By The Goat Exchange: Chloe Claudel, Mitchell Polonsky, and Eliya Smith
OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 24, 2024
A Jewish cemetery in Deadclass, Ohio is the place (and time) for a seance. Five generations of E’s family are buried there, as are M’s grandparents, Blue and Luna, who were married 70 years. Blue and Luna met as children fleeing Nazi occupation; later they moved together to Deadclass, Ohio, to build a family. After the war, both had returned to Krakow to find all their relatives were dead – their hometown had become a cemetery.
SUNSET, ECLIPSED BY SEAGULLS
Written By Deniz Khateri
Co-Directed by Siobhàn Carroll and Deniz Khateri
Music Compostions by Bahar Royaee
SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 13, 2024
Sunset, Eclipsed by Seagulls tells a true story of intercontinental love stifled by physical separation due to political frictions between Iran and the US. Jake (an American white man in his 30s) and Leyla (an Iranian woman in her late 20s), who met on a trip to Paris, fall in love and decide to be together although they live oceans away. Just when Jake applies for Leyla’s visa to bring her to the US as his fiancée, Trump’s travel ban goes into effect preventing any Iranians from entering the US. The couple struggle to maintain their relationship through this situation.
TESTING²
Created by Soomi Kim
Choreographed and performed by Laura Peterson and Soomi Kim
DECEMBER 5-DECEMBER 15, 2024
In Testing², dance theater artist Soomi Kim and choreographer Laura Peterson weave together snippets of text, song, anecdotes, and other sound bites from the recording sessions of famous musical duos. Actor/dancers Peterson and Kim toggle the lines between the ridiculous, the profound moments of brilliance, heartbreak and the absurd spaces in between.
GOLEM OWNED A TROPICAL SMOOTHIE
By Ethan Crystal & Garrett Poladian
Directed by Patrick Swailes Caldwell
OCTOBER 17-NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie tells the story of Golem, a non-copyright infringing creature who owns a non-copyright infringing smoothie shop called Tropical Smoothie in Panama City Beach, Florida. All is going well – until Smeegle, the notorious CEO of the mega-corporate Smoothie Kingdom, threatens to drive him out of business with tax loophole trickery. To save the shop, Golem and his loyal employees (Ian, a high school kid; Gabby, his overachieving older sister; and Kyle, a stoner college dropout) must come up with a plan to raise $60,000 in one week – or maybe 5 days? It doesn’t really matter. The point is, Golem owned a Tropical Smoothie.
SPRING 2025 TO BE ANNOUNCED THIS WINTER