The Exponential Festival Presents: Creature/Comfort

The Exponential Festival

This campy synth-pop musical reminds us that monsters can’t be stopped, but they can be loved.

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The Exponential Festival presents Creature/Comfort by Mann &amp; MaterialsIt's a hot historical romance unlike any other: a mad scientist and his devoted assistant, their collection of monstrous experiments, and the FBI hot on their trail. Created by drag duo Mann &amp; Materials, this campy synth-pop musical reminds us that monsters can’t be stopped, but they can be loved.Director: Benita de Wit Sound Production and Design: Aine Brown Production Design: Kay Wasil Writers: Excess Materials and Hugh Mann Race Producer: Henry LangIt's 1953, and Dr. Bartholomew Bright and his faithful assistant Kevin have one goal: to make the perfect monster. But with the FBI closing in, will their experiments succeed? Or will they be caught before Kevin has the chance to confess that his feelings for Dr. Bright are more than just scientific? Created by drag duo Mann &amp; Materials, this campy musical comedy asks just how much we’ll transform for love. Featuring an original synth-pop score, fantastical monstrous puppets, and homosexual awakenings, Creature/Comfort invites its audience to find (and lovingly embrace) the monster within.CWs: depictions of violence and sex, homophobia including homophobic language, gunshotsFind them: @creaturecomfortmusical @hughmannrace @excessmaterialsThe Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based early-career artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. <a href="https://theexponentialfestival.org/" title="https://theexponentialfestival.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">theexponentialfestival.org</a> The 3pm matinee on Saturday, January 24 is a Mask Required event.Air filters will be at all shows.

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