ACEDIA
A cheery exploration of the morose and existential.
An interdisciplinary festival of trauma at the end of days.
A celebration of apocalyptic turmoil and the collapse of the inner self.
created by De Gré Cárdenas with lyrics by Reese Anderson
VOLUME I
The Apocalypse Trilogy
…3 theatrical explorations into the lost name for the emotion we're all feeling…
…a state of listlessness or torpor. an inert state without pain or care….
Sappy Tales for a Broken Heart
By De Gré Cárdenas
A broken man listens to tales of romance on an old radio in an isolated cabin for 7 weeks as the world comes to an end. Is that the future, the past, the end of the world, or just another dream, knocking at the door?
Set before The Apocalypse
Developed at:
Yaddo Colony
The Brick Theater
SPACE on Ryder Farm
Mind The Art Entertainment
Fish Food For Feelings
By De Gré Cárdenas & Reese Anderson
Four siblings meet at an abandoned cabin on the 2nd anniversary of their parents’ death. The middle child has recently undergone a procedure to have his feelings removed. As the siblings struggle to reconcile their differences his psychotherapist shows up in the middle of the night along with an eccentric singer who claims to be the physical manifestation of the middle child’s removed feelings. A surrealist dueling sibling dramedy unraveling on the eve of the apocalypse.
Set on the eve of The Apocalypse
“Tsunami” featuring Tony Mowatt
In concert at The Public Theater, 2022
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“Let It Burn” featuring the company of Twisted Operettas, in concert at The Public Theater, 2022
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WINNER:
Audience Favorite / Best Music / Best Acting Ensemble
FRIGID NY, 2020
Developed at:
Yaddo Colony
The Public Theater
The Brick Theater
SPACE on Ryder Farm
The National Opera Center
Mind The Art Entertainment
AMPATHY
miscreated by a non-writer
A Wisp, a Tuft, a Lint and a Dandelion float in a broken, meaningless, post-apocalyptic world as a deranged Listener seeks to reinvent art, purpose and connection. This is their story.
Set after The Apocalypse
WINNER:
Audience Favorite / Best Acting Ensemble
FRIGID NY, 2019
Developed at:
The Brick Theater
SPACE on Ryder Farm
Mind The Art Entertainment
VOLUME II
MONSTRUO
By K(c)abil, 2048
A septet for Balam.
A concerto for human at the end of times.
With Balam’s tales from Larry, Barry and Ralph & Rahuil’s songs from Luna Verde based on the dreams of Kabil.
This is your legacy. My Monstruo Balam.
Larry, Barry & Ralph
By K(c)abil, 2048
Father & son argue over three generations over seven generations of trauma. A debaucherously drizzly pry into the culturally gutted and assimilated meaty journals of maybe bipolar, maybe bicultural, maybe biracial, maybe bisexual, maybe byrannical, certainly broken men.
Concurrent theater in 3 volumes, set in Merida, San Miguel de Allende & Williamsburg from 1848-2048
Developed at:
Yaddo Colony
SPACE on Ryder Farm
Alkimia
WINNER:
Best Play with Music
The New York City Fringe, 2024
LUCINE!
or "birdshit: a human concerto with string & void"
By K(c)abil, 2048
Luna’s daughter unapologetically reorchestrates her glorious phases as she approaches her final dawn. Tame. Offensive. Offensively tamed yet tamed offensively. From the award winning creators of the Acedia trilogy and Twisted Operettas comes a new human concerto set two years and two days before the Apocalypse. Oh Lucine, she was as cruel as she was kind.
created by Christian De Gré Cárdenas;
Luna poética by Joseph Reese Anderson,
concerto constructed for Bethany Geraghty with Sam Quiggins, 2023
Retrospective Concerto, set in NY, Merida & Williamsburg from 1984-2018
Constructed and/or supported by:
Mind The Art Entertainment
Broadway's 54 Below
The Public Theater of New York
FRIGID NY
FringeNYC
The Wild Project / Soho Playhouse
La MaMa Experimental Theater Lab
Spectrum / Drom
HERE Arts
The Lark Play Development Center
The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
Yaddo Colony
SPACE on Ryder Farm
The New York Musical Theater Festival
Maryland Opera Studio
The National Alliance of Musical Theater
The Latiné Musical Theatre Lab
The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York
The National Opera Center
Alkimia
VOLUME III
Ko'ox
Fables from the plebes & gods; blankets of the “event."
Storytime with Mr. Buttermen
By The Alchemists
Dare to join the peculiar class of the beloved Mr. Buttermen (a wonderfully disturbed man that lives in your park) as he leads us on a journey of learning. His Fables teach us the importance of being a moral adult in the modern world with classic stories such as Petey the Impotent Rabbit, The Girl who Cried Rape and The Tortoise and the D'jin. Don’t miss the opportunity to once again giggle like a school child. (Please note: Peeing your pants while in attendance is still frowned upon and will lead to banishment from the guild.)
Set during the “event.”
Developed at:
La Mama Experimental Theater Club
FringeNYC
HERE Arts
Feinstein’s/54 Below
Mind The Art Entertainment
Weeding with the 4 Caballeros
By The Listener
We have weeds. Weeds. Nothing but weeds! La Muerte gathers her brethren to weed out their garden. Tales of apocalyptic god play.
Set in El Infierno, 1448-2048