Well, here we are again. Me, with a show to promote. You, with an open evening or afternoon that can be spent seeing a show. How does it always end up like this?
The show in question: A Hunger Artist, at the Lenfest Center for the Arts. February 8th to 11th. Free tickets. LINK HERE.
It's a take on the classic short story by Franz Kafka, about an artist who is... doing well. Except instead of being set in vaguely 19th-century Bohemia and he's in a cage, it's set now and he's a live-streamer. Adapted by friend of the channel Michael Landes, and directed by my literal neighbour Yibin Wang, the play digs into the queasy cyclone of need, performance, and exploitation that constitutes a life of constant voluntary surveillance. I think the main theme is that it's totally fine. We're all totally fine.
I play H (for Hungry???), the guy doing the stuff. The homie Abby Wheeler plays a Taylor Lorenz tech journo type, Mari Blake plays my manager, and Jaren Anderson plays a chud podcaster. It's great. Tickets.
In Other News
Happy new year! I meant to send some sort of year-end wrap-up of all my projects last year, but instead I read The Idiot by Elif Batuman. It was, I think, a better use of everyone's time.
Also, you remember Goldhaven? The kooky cowboy musical from last summer? Well the gang's getting back together to record an album. I'm fricken' stoked. I've never been in a recording studio before! We're drumming up interest from investors and all that jazz so, hey, if you're a millionaire reading this, why not chip in? You know how to reach me.
Xoxoxo,
Carl
P.S. I take pictures of shows as well as glaciers, so hit me up for that, if you want.
This is the Carl Bindman Newsletter, for members of my professional or personal networks whom I think should get the scoop and be kept in the loop.
This newsletter was written on Lenapehoking, the occupied land of the Lenni Lenape.