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I saw the Neo-Futurists<\/a> doing their show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind last Saturday night, courtesy of Unstoppable David Clark<\/a>. I am going to see them again next weekend, at the 2:30 matinee on either Saturday or Sunday. Tickets are $25-$28 and you, you personally,<\/i> had damn well better come with me. We can get a 10% discount if we scrape together ten people.<\/p>\n

The Neo-Futurists are fucking amazing.<\/p>\n

You can find all this out by going to their website, but because other humans are apparently lazy about clicking, here’s what happens: there are five performers and thirty (original) plays. They do, or try to do, all thirty plays in sixty minutes. They’re microplays. You understand why I am smitten.<\/p>\n

The thirty plays may happen in any order, because they’re numbered and the troupe will do whatever number they hear the audience yell out as soon as the previous play is over. They also swap out 1d6<\/acronym> plays every night and replace them from a larger pool, so by this Saturday it might be a completely different show from what I saw.<\/p>\n

As if this wasn’t enough, there is a seven-item checklist that I personally keep for determining whether or not any given show qualifies as performance art. The list is as follows:<\/p>\n