A giant yellow hand reaches through a door for two pants-less men.
“Lily knows how to... assemble a group of artists that are constantly firing on all cylinders.”
— Jesse Perez, The Old Globe
 
 

Credits:

Directed by Lily James Olds
By Sławomir Mrożek

Performed by Jesse Perez and Denis Butkus, with puppetry by Kate Brehm

Produced by The Drama League
HERE Arts Center

Photos © Richard Termine.

In the comic and grotesque Striptease, two businessmen find themselves inexplicably trapped in a room, unable to escape, compelled to do ridiculous acts by a mysterious force. Explosive physicality, shadow play, and giant puppets illuminate the absurd mechanisms of power.