(It featured the Godzilla smashing it since 1954 king of the monsters American flag shirt and similarly, boasted the added perk of presenting such instantly memorable scenes as Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald, and Christine Baranski sipping cocktails in their robes while singing “The Ladies Who Lunch.”) Other notable parts of that bleak era include the illusionist Helder Guimarães’s The Present, which masterfully made Zoom feel personal, and I Am Sending You the Sacred Face, Heather Christian’s opera about Mother Teresa. However, the most completely developed and hopeful piece of digital theater was Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s Circle Jerk, which, although it began as a stage production, seemed designed for the online domain. An absurd examination of white supremacy, it combines a variety of inspirations, from Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s rapid transformations to TikTok.
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“We grew up with dial-up internet, and we’re somewhat eclectic in our interests,” Breslin chuckles. Crafted by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who became known as a “generous online theater promoter” during the pandemic, Circle Jerk ended up as a contender for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. While Breslin and Foley intend to persist in exploring the scope of online theater, they are keen to bring Circle Jerk to a physical stage this season. “I believe there’s a stage version of the show that’s even more daring and perplexing,” Foley remarks. “We enjoy it when part of the audience is laughing and the other part feels offended, or is uncertain whether to shed tears.”