Keynote at Necro-Con is a sci-fi solo show, a speculative keynote speech-turned-exorcism about cults and climate change set on a distant-future Earth.
It stars High Priestess Vee, the figurehead of an isolationist nation-state called Ophanim’s Gate. Her people believe that reducing one’s life by 1/3rd elevates a person to a higher vibrational, neo-human, “star-born” state of being. The play chronicles the Gate’s first attempt to recruit more followers from the Outside world, and the subsequent intervention of Vee’s insurgent, estranged brother, who is on a ruthless quest to find and rescue her.
This is an evening of music, meditation, slideshows, and sideshows delineating a mind submerged in bad faith, and the consequences of a culture of violence pushed to the extreme.