Reminiscent of Commedia Dell'Arte in its traveling, portable, rapid-set up qualities, this performance directed by Rodrigo Toscano assembles itself within a given 72 hour period of each performance. Working with resident poets, experienced actors, non-actors, the persistent question asked by the performers is, Can the poem be tested any further?

Rodrigo Toscano is a Brooklyn-based author and the Artistic Coordinator for the Collapsible Poetics Theater. His experimental poetics plays, body movement poems, and polyvocalic pieces have been performed nationally.

Collaborators: Joshua Corey is the author of two full-length books of poetry and has published two chapbooks. He is an assistant professor of English at Lake Forest College and lives in Evanston, IL. Chicago-based Melissa Severin’s poems have appeared in MoonLit, 42Opus, and The Cultural Society. Brute Fact, her first chapbook, is available from dancing girl press. Fred Sasaki works on the magazines Poetry, Stop Smiling, and ACM. He is the founder of The Printers' Ball in Chicago, and publishes fiction, radio plays, and other writing.

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