Maya Martinez + willow wildrenesshour
Thursday, August 21
Doors: 7:30pm
Event: 8pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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willow wildrenesshour and Maya Martinez present
The Play
from Theatrics
with: Sophie Appel, Aasir Cherot, Tierney Finster, Kari Destiny-Spears and Chloe Watlington
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Please join us for the LA launch of Theatrics. Theatrics is a full length collection of experimental plays written by Maya Martinez and published by Wonder Press. The night will consist of poets performing their own work, and some performing pieces from Theatrics. Maya and willow are on a book tour to promote Theatrics and will be performing The Play from the collection. We hope you will join us for a special evening of poetry, performance, and theatrics!
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In Theatrics, the debut full length collection of writing by Maya Martinez, many stories take place. A pig and a lamb contend with dreams and mortality. A party girl confronts rapture in a parking lot. A man accused of vehicular manslaughter pleads to understand humility. A housewife suffers ego death and becomes a motivational speaker.
Aggregating influences like Molly Shannon, Cookie Mueller and Ryan Trecartin, Maya Martinez’s collection builds moments from language heard in restaurants, conversations with friends, and the rhetorical talk of pyramid schemes. Her memorable characters grapple with the reality of the mundane, revealing themselves as their own flaws, passions and shortcomings unravel, all while making the audience laugh.