Part gallery talk, part gut punch.
It’s opening night at the museum, and the star of the show? A brick.
As curator Andreas leads a seemingly standard art talk, things start to shift. What begins with a nod to provenance spirals into a sharply personal unraveling—touching trade wars, globalization, and the weight of the stories we tell ourselves about this country.
This bold, satirical solo piece mixes absurdity and truth to examine the cost of national mythmaking—and who’s left holding the brick.
One man. One artifact. A whole lot of questions.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Yide Cai is a poet, translator, and award-winning playwright from Shenzhen, China. His work has been featured at OOB Festival, BBTF, La MaMa, The Tank, Kanini Fest, and more. He is a fellow of the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, a member of TPOC Producing Cohort, and a scholar at Sewanee Writers' Conference. He is a MFA in Playwriting candidate at Boston University, and holds a BA in Playwriting & German Studies at Emory University.
ABOUT STRIPPED BARE
STRIPPED BARE INCUBATOR PROJECT created from a desire to use our theatre space to make a home for new theatrical works, and a place for emerging artists to flex their wings, Stripped Bare is an incubator to test-drive new ideas. Stripped Bare is about theatre at its core. A Stripped Bare project is not about sets, lights, props, and costumes. It is about actors, words, passion, movement, and ideas.
