LUCINE!
"birdshit: a human concerto with string & void"
by K(c)abil, 2048
Greed: Set in Williamsburg, 1984-2018
by De Gré Cárdenas & Reese Anderson
Concerto constructed for: Bethany Geraghty with Sam Quiggins, 2023
Luna’s daughter unapologetically reorchestrates her glorious phases as she approaches her final dawn. Tame. Offensive. Offensively tamed yet tamed offensively. From the award winning creators of the Acedia trilogy and Twisted Operettas comes a new human concerto set two years and two days before the Apocalypse. Oh Lucine, she was as cruel as she was kind.
Photos by Jesse TendlerCast Explained
— LUCINE (A HUMAN)*
(1945 — 2018, New York)
who also plays
Her mother, Luna
Her daughter, Solana
Her husband, Elio
Her lover, Rahuil
Her grandmother, the ghost of Gloria
& her attendant, Tuba
The piece makes reference to Lucine's family members and those close to her. For reference:
— Luna*
(1905-2020, Baltimore)
is Lucine's undying, force to be reckoned with, complex cannonball fire of a mother.
— Jack
(1907-1975, Williamsburg)
was Luna's lover, Lucine only met her alcoholic chronic gambling perfectionist "father" once, briefly, at the age of 15 when he gave her a handwritten book of moon poetry entitled “Luna.”
— Gloria*
(1877-1944, Virginia)
was Jack's mother. Lucine never met her southern ball, life of the party, neo confederate grandmother, though she appears in her dreams.
— Elio*
(1937-2018, Figueres)
is Lucine's handsome infuriating quasi European husband of 40 years.
— Lucine’s Children
Solana Sky* (1977-2048, Dublin) and Maris Arroyo (1981-2020, San Miguel de Allende) are Lucine and Elio's biological children.
Terran Clay (1979/86(a)-2020, Montreal) and Blaise Agni (1982/87(a)-2020, New Orleans) are their adopted children.
They are all very complicated humans driven by their volatile elemental nature.
— Dr. Jake Feels
(1937-2018, Figueres)
is Solana's husband and an emerging psychoanalyst.
— Rahuil* and Carlos are groundskeepers at Lucine’s
(1960-2022, San Miguel de Allende) and (1985-2048(?), Yucatan)
whose assimilated names are “Ralph” and “Carl,” are groundskeepers at Lucine's cabin. They are optimistic and broken.
— Tuba*
(1955-2035, “Upstate” New York)
is an occasional attendant to Lucine and her family. Practical and steely.
— Finnigan
is Lucine's companion of 5 years. She has disappeared.