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Season 5: What Happens Now
The four plays of Season 5: What Happens Now are stylistically diverse, but share a focus on the role of memory in love, grief and change. Find out more about the plays below.
Funding and Support
We rely on the generosity of individuals and organizations to continue to do the work that we do.
Programming
In addition to our main productions, Flux is actively dedicated to play development through Food:Soul, ForePlay, Have Another, Flux Sundays and our annual retreat.
To celebrate our fifth anniversary and strengthen our mission of building a creative home, Flux is returning to the work of playwrights we’ve previously produced for Season 5: What Happens Now. The season begins on April 28 with DEINDE by August Schulenburg (The Lesser Seductions of History), a science fiction thriller that explores what it means to be human in a time of rapid technological change. Next up is Hearts like Fists by Adam Syzmkowicz (Pretty Theft), a superhero noir comedy about the danger of falling in love. The fifth season concludes with two plays in rep: Sans Merci by Johnna Adams (The Angel Eaters Trilogy) and Schulenburg’s Honey Fist, both of which wrestle with the stories we tell about loss.
The four plays of Season 5: What Happens Now are stylistically diverse, but share a focus on the role of memory in love, grief and change. How would scientific progress accelerate if we could remember everything? How dangerous is the memory of a broken heart? Who owns the stories of the dead? Each play passes these questions through a threshold moment of irrevocable change, leaving the characters and audience asking, “What happens now?”
DEINDE
by August Schulenburg
directed by Heather Cohn
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In the not-too-distant future, the pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs the creation of DEINDE, a device that allows a team of brilliant quantum biologists to think directly into a powerful computer. At first, they use this prosthetic for the mind under strict rules of engagement, but soon noble ideals and personal passions lead a few to break the rules. They discover that DEINDE’s power is far greater than anyone first imagined, and their world spins out of control, raising questions of morality, consciousness, and what it means to be human in an age of rapid technological change.
Read more about the cast and creative team HERE
Hearts Like Fists
by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Kelly O’Donnell
Fall, 2012
Hearts Like Fists is a superhero noir comedy about the dangers of love. The city’s heart beats with fear: Dr X is sneaking into apartments and injecting lovers with a lethal poison. Lisa’s heart beats with hope: now that she’s joined the elite Crimefighters, maybe she can live a life with meaning. And every beat of Peter’s wounded heart brings him closer to death, but he’s designing an artificial replacement that will never break. Can the Crimefighters stop Dr. X? Do Peter and Lisa have a chance at love? And who is the girl with a face like a plate?
pictured: August Schulenburg and Jason Paradine in Flux’s Food:Soul reading of Hearts Like Fists
Sans Merci
by Johnna Adams
directed by Heather Cohn
An idealistic young woman (a survivor of an attempted murder by South American revolutionaries) is visited three years later by the conservative mother of the young woman who died at her side. The two dance through their grief, while negotiating the truth of what brought the two young women together, why they undertook their dangerous humanitarian mission, and what happened on that final day.
pictured: Gregory Waller and Marnie Schulenburg in Johnna Adam’s Angel Eaters.
Honey Fist
by August Schulenburg
directed by Kelly O’Donnell
Set outside of Boston, Honey Fist follows a group of old friends gathering for an annual bender honoring Justin, a high school buddy who died too young. An old adversary who turned Hollywood shows up with a movie star on his arm and a Porsche for the person who shares the best story about Justin. After the story-telling ends in a fight, the friends kidnap the movie star girlfriend as payback, and her presence unearths a painful truth about how Justin really died.
pictured: Chinaza Uche and Tiffany Clementi in a reading of Honey Fist at Flux’s annual retreat.
Flux acknowledges and is grateful for the funding and support we receive from the following institutional funders.
The New York State Council on the Arts
The Dramatist Guild Fund
The IT Awards Caffe Cino Fellowship
The Nancy Quinn Fund a project of A.R.T./NY
Full Productions
Since 2006, Flux has produced thirteen productions in theaters around New York City. Read more about the productions, see photos and read reviews here.
Food:Soul
Flux’s potluck play development series provides a rigorous 15-hour rehearsal process for an extreme staged reading of a play that Flux is passionate about. Food:Soul also features free food for the audience, home cooked by the Flux community.
Learn more about past Food:Souls here
ForePlay
Sometimes, you need a warm up for the full production. With Flux’s exploratory play reading series, ForePlay, our community of artists riff on the themes of our upcoming shows through newly commissioned short plays.
More information on ForePlays will be added soon!
Have Another
Want to see the plays we’re working on at Flux Sundays? Then come Have Another with Flux! This series takes our favorite Sunday scenes and stages them at Jimmy’s #43, a great bar in the East Village.
More info on Flux Sundays will be added soon!
Flux Sunday
It all begins with our weekly play development workshop, Flux Sundays. Every Sunday when not in production, Flux’s growing community of actors, directors, and playwrights meets to lightly stage new scenes from plays in development. Over the course of a year, Flux Sundays develops over thirty plays, and deepens our relationship with over 75 artists.
Read about our most recent sessions on our blog.
Interested in joining us? Email our Artistic Director at gus@fluxtheatre.org.
