Gavin Rose comes home from a long journey to find his house sitters Evan and Byron have taken his furniture, redecorated, and are living with a barfly, Brian, in his now unrecognizable home. They throw a party for his return, inviting his ex-wife, Cheyenne, and twenty strangers. During the course of the evening, one of the house sitters, Bryon, slowly becomes a bird-god, altering the course of the evening from cocktails to an interweaving of subtexts around money, class, possession and murder.
Performances:
The Glass Bang was originally performed as The Florida Room at Cannonball, Miami in April 2013. As The Glass Bang, the piece was subsequently performed as part of The Machine Project’s Field Guide to L.A. Architecture, a part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., an initiative of the Getty and was stage at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture’s R.M. Schindler’s home on Mulholland Drive in Laurel Canyon on June 7, 8, and 15, 2013 and then at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, June 20-23, 2013.
BYRON and EVAN are lying in bed. Evan is disturbed, Byron dreamy.
BYRON
But I didn’t stop talking. I said: ” I would take birds to the mountain top, well, not birds, their effigies. I would never touch the actual material. In the umber night, (GAVIN walks in, takes off jacket, lays at end of the bed), I walked steadily up the red rocks into a brightly lit paper house white like a lantern. There I called Briar my bird, my mate. He would bring his beak close to mine. I could see his two golden eyes. They would shift forward so that we could see into one another. That was our meeting place…and then he would slip into me. I could feel his tiny heart beating hard against my breast like a seed capable of lifting me off and suddenly I would be gone… (GAVIN gets up and brushes his teeth) and where I went… (pause)….human shit would walk on all fours and copulate with dismembered earthworms…
EVAN
I think I tuned you out at that point.
