Collective Unconscious to Close; UndergroundZero Festival to Relocate

Collective: Unconscious, the Off-Off Broadway venue located in Tribeca, will close following the expiration of its lease on July 31. The theater has recently been plagued by a massive plumbing problem that has rendered its lower level “lobby” and backstage storage area unusable.

The second annual UndergroundZero Festival, which had been scheduled to play the venue July 8-August 2, has been forced to relocate to neighboring venues The Flea and Manhattan Children’s Theatre as well as Grace Bar & Restaurant. The only festival show to remain at Collective: Unconscious will be Charlie Victor Romeo, which will have the final public performances at this location.

The festival, curated by Paul Bargetto, will present over a dozen works by both established and emerging artists. Highlights will include a revival of the Drama Desk winning Charlie Victor Romeo (July 8-11), a live performance documentary derived entirely from the “Black Box” transcripts of real-life airline emergencies; Nigromantia: A Slight Return (July 12-13), directed and performed by John Clancy, which pairs two monologues by award-winning playwright Don Nigro: Golgotha and Genesis; and Clancy’s The Event, a comic examination of the act of theater, performed by Matt Oberg.

Additional performances include Infanta: User’s Guide (July 12-13), by Saviana Stanescu; Feeder: A Love Story (July 16-30), by James Carter; The Terrible Temptation to Do Good: A Brechtian Lounge (July 18-20), adapted from Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle; Pinchbottom Declares War! (Or Full Frontal Jacket) (July 18-20); The Proposal, Based on an Old Farce (July 24-26); Pray, Mantid (July 24-27), by Steven Gaultney; The Apocalypse of John the Rabbit (July 26-27), written & directed by Freddi Price; Clown Axioms and the Bitter Poet (July 31-August 2); and Tales from Bordertown (Vol. II) (July 31-August 2), a solo show by Eric Dean Scott.

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