Floor Thirteen’s SECOND Season
THE HAPPINESS TREATMENT
Floor Thirteen is thrilled to announce our second season, “The Happiness Treatment,” consisting of five brand-new, unsettling pieces premiering at The Tank this October:
I. The Procedure: A woman returns home after receiving a sensational new Treatment for unhappiness, but her friends find that she doesn't quite seem herself.
II. The Encounter: An idealistic student takes an otherwordly being prisoner, only to find it knows more about her than she knows about it.
III. The Newsroom: Visitors from another world may have taken over society, but the morning news still gets done.
IV. The Performance: When the leading man of a play is murdered, the show must go on - but can the cast figure out whodunnit first?
V. The Escape: A group of rebels take refuge from the world in an abandoned mall, but they find some problems aren't so easy to run away from.
CONTENT WARNINGS: physical depiction of a medical procedure
past events
Floor Thirteen’s Inaugural Season
Sign of the (eNd) times
When our personal worlds end, what is left to survive upon? Experience four apocalyptic short plays, created by Floor Thirteen Theatrical Laboratory in our inaugural season, written by Grayson May:
Looking Up: The well-to-do gather on a Manhattan rooftop as the world prepares to burn.
Dying For Love: A lovesick screenwriter decides dying is the only way for true love to live.
Bloodless : Three death-defying women prove second chances are not everything they seem to be.
No Light Lives Here: At the darkest moment in their lives, in the heart of the forest, an unlikely group of people struggle to find light in one another.
CONTENT WARNINGS: mentions of suicide, mentions of sexual assault of a minor, mentions of physical abuse
The production will be followed by an open-mic cabaret, where you - the audience! -can join us onstage to share existing or original poetry, music, dance, and other inspiration: become a part of the Floor Thirteen community and help us brainstorm ideas for our next season!