Sydney Maresca (Costume Design) recently designed costumes for Buddy Cop 2 (The Debate Society, Ontological/Hysteric), Red-Haired Thomas(Soho Think Tank, Ohio Theater), Strangers (Ontological/Hysteric) andMilkMilkLemonade. She is a resident designer with The Debate Society and her other work with them includes You’re Welcome (The Brick), Cape Disappointment (PS 122), The Eaten Heart (Ontological/Hysteric), A Thought about Raya, and The Snow Hen. Sydney has an MFA from NYU Tisch and is also part of the The Hazzards, New York ‘s baddest ukulele band.
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The Little Death: Vol. 1, Matt Marks' post-Christian nihilist pop opera, is an ambitious new work that fuses bombastic electro-pop hooks, frenetically chopped break beats, hypnotic lyrics, and apocalyptic Christian imagery. Holding these disparate elements together is a unconventional narrative that follows two characters, Boy (Matt Marks) and Girl (Mellissa Hughes), on a journey through the world of Fundamentalist Evangelism, as they cope with repressed sexuality in a modern world.
The sample-heavy work draws on musical references that echo the character's sexual-religious confusion, including pop songs and gospel standards with evocative titles ("He Touched Me" and "When God Dips His Love In My Heart"). Marks took most of the sampled material from his own collection of 1970s gospel albums and classic hip-hop and soul recordings. Using a DIY approach, he produced the album using only a couple of microphones and a laptop running Ableton Live.
The stage show as directed by Rafael Gallegos takes inspiration from a number of sources, including The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and church lock-ins.
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