65 min. each / $15
Hell's Kitchen is made up of a diverse buffet. When walking in its confines one might experience - labels. These labels fall over the poor, the rich, the strong, the weak, the ethnic, the homosexual, the businessman, the civil worker, the successful, and the barely making it. Who are the People in Your Neighborhood? explores ten people, as portrayed by one actor, who make up a community, side by side, without knowing anyone around them. These characters define loneliness, alienation, ambition, tenacity, despair, and strength by the stereotypes they choose to walk in or the individuals they would rather be.
I Love Myself probes the crucial balance of taking one's false mask off to allow one's true self to emerge; as one removes the mask the true self is available to give and experience love. I Love Myself takes Narcissus by the hand, educates him, and allows him to discover unconditional and unobjectified love. Through songs by Queen, Journey, Blitzstein, Lloyd Webber, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, vintage ditties, and patter of life's adventures, the audience and the performer learn the invaluable platitude, "You can't love another without loving yourself."