This wacky and delightfully daring show at The Annoyance Theatre in Williamsburg may feature an alien, but don’t worry, you’re not in danger of being probed. Instead, you’ll watch two naked people learn about their bodies in a world that seems an awful lot like our own, but with a lot more hot dogs. Written and performed by Brian Fiddyment, Edy Modica, and Rick Swenson. Directed by Jo Firestone.
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Rick Swenson, Brian Fiddyment, and Edy Modica in ‘Body.’ (photo: Madeline Manning)
Picture this: you’re at a small performance space underneath a neon-lit jazz club, amidst a pink-lit bar and decorative mannequins. After a few moments of mingling and sipping PBR, a man comes onstage and informs everyone that if they didn’t already know, this show involves fully nude bodies. If we are so shocked by this horrid fact and want a refund, they are available at the door.
Rick Swenson, the Bushwick-based NYU film student who punked Gothamist with a half-naked woman performing in a kiddie pool full of milk, just sent over his latest work. It’s a parody of a perfume commercial, also filmed in Bushwick, and it’s pretty great. In fact, we may just have to steal it for our garbage-juice scent.