MORIAH ELLA-GABRIEL MASON
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Love. . . And A Little Torture


Love. . . and a Little Torture is a semi-improvisational danced performance based on Sam Shephard's "Fool for Love." Five performers swap and share the three original roles from the play, creating a drunken multiverse of possibilities that remains constrained by the toxic cycle of obsession and abuse at the story's core. What is the line between love and hate? Is there any space between push and pull? And is there possibility for redemption after harm?

Direction and Improvisational Score by Moriah Ella Mason
Music by Seth Laucks
Excerpts from "Fool for Love" by Sam Shephard
Performed by Taylor Knight, Patty Petronello, Zëk Stewart, Anna Thompson, and LaMar Williams (Philadelphia)
with additional performers Riva Strauss and Andrew Swackhamer (Pittsburgh)

Love. . . premiered at the Space Upstairs (Pittsburgh, PA) in 2012 and was presented at vox populi (Philadelphia, PA) as part of the Philly Fringe Festival in 2013

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  • ART WORKS
    • So I Think You've Had the Time of Your Life
    • CANAL or Time is a Conveyor Belt and the Only Winners Are These Basking Turtles
    • A Temporary Seal
    • Queer, Jewish
    • Escape Velocity
    • Soft Block
    • The Protein Hustle
    • sex werque
    • Frayed Harmonies
    • Funny, She Doesn't Look Jewish
    • Eser Hamakot / Ten Plagues
    • Diasporate
    • Detritus, Vestige, and Dross
    • Contained
    • Go Places and Do Things: Tactile Dances
    • Love. . . And a Little Torture
    • Of Snails and Lips
    • Crumbs Are Not An Instant's Act
    • The Groundwater Up Project
  • Collaborations & Performances
  • TEACHING
  • Writing
  • CONTACT / CV