SCREAM!LionDogs
On the Boards
100 W Roy St, 217-9888
Thurs-Sat March 4-6 at 8 pm
$13-$15.
There’s a guy who wants to fit in with a group, but the group of guys he wants
to fit in with hates the kind of guys that the guy is. The guy’s willing to
hate the kinds of guys the guys he wants to fit in with hate, even though he’s
that kind of guy. But then the guys who hate the kind of guy the guy is kill
the guy. That’s a thorny matter to try to bring to the stage, and it is, roughly,
the subject of the latest performance work by the Young Composers Collective,
under the odd title SCREAM!LionDogs. The story is drawn from that of
a young Asian punk, a former Neo-Nazi skinhead, murdered by a pair of white
skins in a train tunnel in Olympia in 1992. The show, which plays here for one
week only, explores violent masculine rituals of bonding and exclusion through
dance choreographed by Haruko Nishimura, set to a thrashing score by collective
mainstays Joshua Kohl, Adam McCollom, and Ian Rashkin.