Experiments Reading: SHE SPITS (AGAIN AGAIN)

Val Ramirez
October 12

[Program tbd]

Runtime: tbd

A lamp indicts her lovers, insisting she has been forced to GNAW ON THE TEPID MEAL OF JUST ENOUGH. A shadow watches and tries to remember THE SOUND A BODY MAKES WHEN IT MOVES. And a hiccupping man wants to watch the news, asking WHAT IS THE FOLLY IN WANTING A QUIET LIFE?

Together they compose a malfunctioning ritual of queer domesticity in a bedroom continuously filled with fraying cords and the interruptions of a prescient radio.

SHE SPITS (AGAIN AGAIN) is a surreal exploration of a fractured family caught in the violent machinery of dysfunction, enmeshment, and erasure. The lamp spits sparks at a man with tequila-soaked skin and masterful avoidance as a shadow attempts to understand that being a witness is not the same as being present.

Each grieves the failures of love as they can.

Even the room mourns.

Even the radio.

Even the light.

Again.

Again.

LOVE IS A GODLESS VENTURE

Written by: Val Ramirez

Eulàlia Comas

Matt Genkin

Carter

Lucky Kernan

The artist

Val Ramirez

is a performance artist, playwright, and arts educator. Since 2022, she has been an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists in the long-running experiment The Infinite Wrench at The Kraine Theatre, Second City New York, Joe’s Pub, Artists Space, Peabody Essex Museum, and more. Her solo performance art project MISSIVES FROM THE HELLMOUTH was most recently seen at Dixon Place’s HOT FEST in 2025. As an experimental theatre teaching artist, she has recently worked with Pink Fang, School of the New York Times, The New School, and with the Neo-Futurists Education Program.

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