MONDAY PICK | The Beautiful Refrigerator is Empty by No Face Performance Group

The Beautiful Refrigerator is Empty is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the transformative pressures of adolescence. Teena Geist is a perfectly normal fourteen-year-old girl: she has a best friend, Jessica; she has a crush on a boy, Tod; she dreams of going to the prom with that boy and being his prom queen. Except Tod is Jessica’s boyfriend. And Jessica has been missing for three days. As Teena relates the events surrounding Jessica’s disappearance, the audience is forced to confront the dark realities of teenage angst. Did Teena have something to do with Jessica’s disappearance? Would she destroy a lifelong friendship to act on her overpowering lust? As the hour of prom approaches, Teena’s stories veer from high school mundanity to dark humor and Grand Guignol horror. What depravity lurks beneath the veneer of high school normalcy? Teena knows, and tonight, on Prom night, she’s telling all about it.

No Face Performance Group is a Philadelphia-based ensemble dedicated to the creation of new, genre-defying performance. Since forming in 2007, they have created 9 original performance works. From 2010 to 2011 they served as the apprentice company to Pig Iron Theatre Company, an OBIE award-winning ensemble. No Face’s work has been presented at venues in Philadelphia including NOSPACE, The Painted Bride Art Center, Space 1026, and Vox Populi gallery. The group’s work has also been seen at venues outside Philadelphia, including The 4th Street Theater (Manhattan, NY), The Collapsible Hole (Brooklyn, NY), Art6 Gallery (Richmond, VA), The Birdhouse (Knoxville, TN), The Aquarium Gallery (New Orleans, LA), The Alabama Art Kitchen (Tuscaloosa, AL), and The Annex Theater (Baltimore, MD).

WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.nofaceperformance.org <http://www.nofaceperformance.org>

Sunday and Monday July 22 and 23 at 7:00pm (doors 6:00) $10-$15 sliding scale