Attention Hoarders and Theatre Go-ers!

For the last six years I have been curating a wardrobe for You, our audience. Each of these items were purchased in the heat of blind spontaneous ecstasy and I’m not saying they were mistakes I’m just saying they need to belong to somebody else now.

It began six years ago, when a friend-in-the-know took me to the Ragstock on Belmont. There I discovered the inaugural piece; a pair of vintage high-waisted men’s biking shorts. Maroon. Then I went back for black and then a mustard pair. The collection has grown steadily ever since. I’ve been housing it on the floor of my closet beside my single piece of luggage and the winter gear. There’s a long-sleeved button-up belly shirt with a back panel made of Highlighter yellow satin that I purchased on a feverish whim to “get back into clubbing again.” I wore it exactly once five years ago. Since then I have moved to three different apartments and it’s draped over my lap as I write this.

I have attachments to my things.

So I wrote a play where the things are brought to the theatre and at the theatre the people take the things away. It’s a One Way Clothing Swap and so far it’s been really successful. So successful, in fact, that now I’m out of clothes.

This is the part where I ask you to help me:

Do you also have a collection of items stuck between being Yours and Not Yours? If so, bring them over to the Neo-Futurarium this weekend! We’ll have a big box in the downstairs lobby marked SWAP where you can drop ’em off for recycling anytime during the week or on your way into one of our gang-busters shows this weekend* . YOU’RE GOING TO THANK ME FOR THIS. It’s spring time after all! Make some room on the floor of your closet for the rompers and crop tops.

Speaking of room, you’ll need to make some in your heart for the ONE and ONLY Neo-Futurist Caitlin Stainkin. She’s back for the fist timein four years and she brought something for you from the sweeping grasslands on the interior of a Red Line train car (known also as the state of Montana). Also, killer-queen Brenda Arellano is on her last week with us before she heads back West. You definitely don’t want to miss this lethal combination.

Six world premieres this week that just might change your life. One will, at the very least, save you a trip to the Buffalo Exchange.