Saltbees

or;

How the Truth is not Needed in Dramatic Composition. An Informative—no!—A Performative Essay in Three Parts Inclusive of an Analog Prologue between Myself and the Audience in which we Lay the Flagstones of Artifice in order to proceed into a Hermeneutical Exegesis of an Excerpted Portion of Yhò Focmafhrhanerhe whence a New Paradigm is Ushered.

by Home for a Swarm of Bees
Presented at The Brick Theater as part of the 2023 !?:New Works Festival

There is an expansive mystical world that does not have a name (it does have a name shhhh) where they worship bees. We won’t tell you about it at all (we will a little), but we’re freaking out and we’ve been given a stage to freak out on (not in the contract [there is no contract]). The title is a lie—so is the show. It’s actually about friendship now.

Developed and performed by Kate Zibluk and Laia Comas for Home for a Swarm of Bees

This performance contains footage from the films Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsumaraki 1997) and The Rest I Makeup (Michelle Memran 2018). The excerpts are used with the filmmaker’s permission.

Home for a Swarm of Bees is:
Laia Comas, Artistic Director
Mia Arias Tsang, Communications & Literary Director
Morgan Maben, Visual Director
Kate Zibluk, Archivist and Producing Director

All photos: David Rauch