Monday, January 8, 2007
The Sublet Experiment: NSA Theatre Coming to a Fifth Floor Walkup Near You
filed under: We Make Art Not Sex by Melissa Gira
The hunt for a good apartment in any major bustling metropolis is essentially a sexual crisis, and like sex, only by being honest about your wants can you get what you really need. You know you fuck too loud and so that requires finding roommates who also come at a similar or higher decibel, but how do you imply that in your carefully-crafted in the five minutes you’ve got email response to way too many vague craigslist ads? And hope they’re still the kind of folks who wash dishes? Then there’s the issue of fucking your roommates, which requires not only a great apartment, but chemistry with said roommates — unless sharing bills is enough to turn you on. Either way, you’re going to fare far better if you just concentrate on scoring the place you want and then returning to the “seeking subletters” (wink) section of craigslist to find your faux-flatmate fuckbuddy.
So was it compromised sex or real estate that inspired The Sublet Experiment, a show about a guy renting his place out to a woman “rent-free” in exchange for sex, that’s running currently in New York? The four-act play is actually staged in a new apartment — an actual New York apartment — each weekend. Rising costs for theatre venues must have in part driven this concept, but then there’s also the flaneur’s fascination with seeing other people’s stuff to pack the house (yeah, literally). Show locations are updated at their website — last weekend closed in Williamsburg, and this week opens on the Upper East Side. Only twelve audience members may attend each performance, of course, Gotham floorplans being as they are.
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