The Exponential Festival presents Neck Down by Nic Adams
Set in New York City the morning before an ancient coin auction, Neck Down is an aural hallucination on the American daydream and the heroism of broke artists.
by Nic Adams
Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps
Produced by Melissa Mickens
Lights by Andre Segar
Sound by Eden Segbefia
Sets by Ettie Pin
Costumes by Karen Boyer
Stage Managed by Deniz Demirkurt
Featuring: Cristina Pitter, Essence Lotus, Jack Dahill
It’s the morning before an ancient coin auction in NYC and early-career artist Ciel is stuck working yet another menial temp assignment. An old money collector arrives early to inspect the legal tender upon which he plans to bid. So begins a daydream about lottery winnings, caskets, sex fantasies, delulus of grandeur, Sergei Diaghilev, and Big Oil Banks. The physical characters onstage duet with the voices in their heads, mounting a tragicomic class stand-off and a toast to the relentless spirit of artists living on the brink of precarity.
cw: sexual content
Find them: @neckdown_play @nniiccoollaass @marissajoycestamps nicadams.com
Written by Nic Adams (Corona Cam Show, Icarus in the L.E.S., Duet-ed) and directed by Princess Grace Award-winner Marissa Joyce Stamps (Being Up in Here..., Blue Fire Burns the Hottest).
The 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. theexponentialfestival.org