About the Project
In this 60-minute solo performance, which The LA Times called “palatable” and “hard to watch stoned, even harder to watch sober,” a 20-year-old theatre-maker’s inflated ego drives him to perform a VERY SERIOUS solo adaptation of the great American classic play, “The Cattle in the Tapestry”. As the show begins to come apart at the seams, Dylan (the aforementioned egotistical theatre-maker) begins to wonder if some ideas (and a few dreams) are just better on paper…
This show is a chunky blend of solo performance, standup, physical comedy, sketch, and puppetry (shadow puppets, milk-jug puppets, the works). It’s been inspired by the work of “The Play That Goes Wrong”, National Theatre’s “Vanya”, Monty Python, Pen and Teller, “Key and Peele”, “Calvin and Hobbes”, “Mr. Show” Simon Stephens, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Caryl Churchill, Bo Burnham, Kate Berlant, Nathan Fielder, Tim Robinson, Eddie Murphy, ET the Mime, PUSH Theatre, Kimberly Belflower, Travis Alabanza, Tectonic Theatre Project, Cole Escola, Ali Wong, Ayo Edebiri, David Sedaris, Lisa Gilroy, Caleb Hearon, Ben Schwartz, Tom Middleditch, and the GOAT Steve Martin.
The show includes language, sexual humor (not anything nasty, I’m too shy), a parody play-within-a-play in the style of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams (the American Theatre’s three white uncles), and a talkback featuring Dylan Magallanes and a slew of inquisitive pre-recorded voices.
Production Team
