Nothing Doing

The avant-garde experimentalist performer Alex Tatarsky’s previous work has been called “thrilling and frenetic” by the New York Times and “appealingly unhinged” by Vulture. A classically trained clown, Tatarsky’s obsessions with dada glossolalia, beefy classical literature, and messy entropy often manifest as riotous live freak-out sessions where the audience is implicated, tagged, and released. As part of Under the Radar’s inaugural commissioning cohort, Tatarsky offers a generous peek inside their half-cracked skull, revealing a roiling cauldron laden with lofty concept and earthy funk. Performing nightly experiments to create Nothing Doing over the course of the festival, they invite audiences into their turmoil for a conjuring of new material both literary and fleshy, possession as property ownership and as spirit channeling, unstable fictions from the self to the nation-state, baloney as nonsense and as lunch meat, plus all kinds of holistic thinking about plot holes, potholes, assholes, black holes, holes in your pocket, wormholes, glory holes, the holy, and the profane.

Nothing Doing is a commission of Under the Radar and Playwrights Horizons

Note: This work addresses adult concerns and may contain comic nudity and moments of shock. The artist invites audiences of all ages and theater experiences who are willing to play along.