September 2022 | The New Ohio Theater

My Onliness, presented in American Sign Language and English, is a fable/cabaret/circus entertainment about a mad King’s desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner. (The poor Writer is simply collateral damage!) Is this a glimpse of our dystopian future? Or just the structure of human consciousness? 

 Laced with songs of torture, truth, and tenderness; with fully integrated American Sign Language performed by two “Mediums” of the royal court; this is sexy, visceral, dark buffoonery reimagined as The New Absurd. An homage to Stanislaw Witkacy and his theories of “pure theatre”.

Directed by Daniel Irizarry, One-Eighth Theater
Written Robert Lyons

Photos by Suzanne Fiore