By Matt Thekkethala
Directed by Sunghyun Lim
When a prickly Old man demands a sky burial – an ancient ritual in which vultures consume the dead – his estranged son Small Fry accompanies him to a faraway land to see it through. But when they discover that only two vultures remain on Earth, the funeral arrangements spiral into a visceral, personal, diabolical reckoning with extinction. Vulturine is a father-son Home Depot trip from hell, dripping with entrails, climate guilt and dark comedy.
Performances
February 26 at 7:00 p.m.
March 1 at 2:00 p.m.
March 7 at 7:00 p.m.
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About the Playwright
Matt Thekkethala is a playwright and performer based in Austin, Texas. He writes absurdist comedies that are cheekily curious about our capacity to forgive one another. He has developed work with Pittsburgh New Works Festival, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and The NOLA Project. In 2020, he released Now More Than Ever, an episodic radio play / comedy album hybrid, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Matt holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and is currently pursuing a M.F.A. in Theatre (Playwriting) from The University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers.
About the director
Sunghyun Lim is an award-winning theatre director and playwright based in Seoul, South Korea. He creates plays to tear apart myths and fantasies, confront nasty realities and curse the distorted world we live in. He is the founder of the theatre group “Kkungjjak Project” and was a 7th-season member of “Hyehwadong 1”, a collective of young directors based at the small theatre “TheatreLab Hyehwadong 1” in Seoul. In 2023, he received the Best New Director Award at the 59th Dong-A Theatre Awards, the oldest and most prestigious theatre award in Korea. Selected credits include: Where is Jesus's Dick? (2017), Outspoken (2018), Samil-ro Changgo Theatre Consecration Service (2018), The Great Revival Service at the Namsan Arts Center (2020), Mother & Son (2021), Who the Hell Ate the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge? (2021), Muffin and Chihuahua (2022), Blooming (2022), The Rich Theatre (2022), Sogapalag (2023), Times Square (2024) and Macbeth (2024).
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