This is the Thing, a multimedia performance by Kirk Read
concerning apocalyptic fantasies, sex work, mushroom hallucinations and the Brady Bunch.

August 7-9, 8pm Thursday-Saturday

August 14-16, 8pm Thursday-Saturday

Thursdays are pay what you can
Saturdays there are two shows: 8pm and 10pm

Shotwell Studios
3252A 19th Street at Shotwell

Tickets:
$12-20 sliding scale

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/38121

For high res-photos, video and more info, visit www.kirkread.com/Site/Press.html
Video clips of show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56ADAO9Zrw

We're back! The initial five night run of this show sold out, so we're back in a new venue.

Writer/performer Kirk Read presents this midnight movie-style evening of stories and performances about sex work, hallucinations and the apocalypse. Read learned to perform in a touring Virginia evangelical youth group, with some in his hometown expecting him to become a preacher. Instead, Read became an escort and an avowed fan of magic mushrooms. Read is a different sort of preacher. Read's stories weave in and out of multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney's live soundscape, creating an atmosphere of magical trance. Read's humor and acute observation, together with Mooney's trippy, layered music will take you to church. Liz Singer's gorgeous videos will make your ass tremble.

About the show’s initial run, Hiya Swanhuyser of SF Weekly said “the word ‘pray’ bubbles up from somewhere deep within Kirk Read, and it’s genius.” The Bay Area Reporter called it “hilarious and moving.”

During the development process of this show, Kirk was obsessed with memories of a 400 pound sex work client, the Brady Bunch, learning to use a serger machine to make the costumes, pennies and touring through rural Alabama with strippers and praying in public.

This show is a co-production by Army of Lovers and SAFEhouse, in association with Footloose Presents at Shotwell Studios.