To Survive is to Find Some Meaning in the Suffering | Neil Bhandari

Listen to Neil’s story below. It was originally performed at The Arrow, a production of The Neo-Futurists. I am in tears — the ugliest crier you’ve ever seen — reading an essay by Stephanie Wittels about suffering and her daughter’s hearing loss and her brother Harris’ death and a split-second later I am doubled over in laughter because someone has put the lips from that exasperated guy meme on a picture of MLK in response to Donald Fuckface’s tweets about […]

He Woke the Beast | Catharine Savage

He Woke the Beast was first performed on May 29th, 2016 as part of The Arrow Cracks with The Neo-Futurists.  Brian put his hand on my thigh and said, “Don’t worry, I won’t let that happen to you again.” I wanted to take his hand off my leg and slap him in the face with it repeatedly, while saying, “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself.” Brian and I were both studying abroad in Morocco for the semester. […]