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Online Dating Rock Opera Debuts At Bushwick Theater Wednesday
"The Art of Luv (Part 5): Swipe Right/ROKÉ Cupid" promises to convert the Bushwick Starr theater into "a psychedelic LUVetarium."
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — A new rock opera composed of excerpts from ecstatic poetry and online dating profiles will debut at The Bushwick Starr Wednesday night.
“The Art of Luv (Part 5): Swipe Right/ROKÉ Cupid” promises to convert the Bushwick theater at 207 Starr St. into “a psychedelic LUVetarium” from May 24 to June 10, when the show will run.
The opera, set inside “a kaleidoscopic video tent” sets the text of online dating profiles and guides to live music in its examination of how people find love in the age of the internet.
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The show is the fifth in “The Art of Luv” series from the Royal Osiris Karoake Ensemble, led by Tei Blow and Sean McElroy, who will costar in the piece with performers Eben Hoffer, John Gasper and Rigel Harris.
“The Art of Luv (Part 1): Elliot,” which debuted at the Public Theater in 2016, focused on Elliot Rodger — the California man who went on a killing spree in 2014 because he felt unappreciated by women — and explored the impact of extreme masculinity on modern romance.
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In its review of “The Art of Luv (Part 1)”, the New York Times wrote the production was “a quirky, mostly entertaining multimedia exploration of the dynamics of erotic attraction in contemporary culture.”
The troupe hosted a “polytechnical spiritual” pop-up event for Part 2, showed a “kaleidoscopic” rescreening of Nora Ephron’s Meg Ryan movies for Part 3, and recreated of a much ridiculed YouTube video about a Labor Day 2013 shopping spree for Part 4.
Tickets for the series’ fifth part cost $18 and are available on the Brooklyn Starr website — the show will run Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. for the next four weeks.
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