Karinne Keithley Syers

A Note On Ticket Prices

The Chocolate Factory Theater now offers a tiered ticketing price structure, with the goal of remaining accessible to every person who wishes to attend our events while acknowledging the very real value of the service – namely, artistic and administrative labor – that a ticket purchase represents.

We ask that you select the option that best reflects your individual circumstances. This is not a “pay what you wish” scenario; rather, it’s “pay as much as your circumstances allow”. For context: in the absence of outside funding, a true cost ticket to a Chocolate Factory performance would be $275.

Our tiered options are as follows:

1. $35 (base price – the equivalent of one hour of labor for a lead artist, performer, design collaborator or technician)
2. $25
3. $15
4. $50
5. $100
6. $275 (true cost ticket)

Our intention here is not to create walled gardens or tiers of access based on monetary status; we’re merely trying to make our practice – of paying artists, technicians and administrative staff a fair wage (more than 80% of our annual budget goes to labor, fyi) – more sustainable (or truthfully, less unsustainable), while remaining (we hope!) accessible and welcoming to all.

As a ticket buyer, you’ll receive the same experience regardless of the price you pay. It’s general admission for everyone.

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Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

Your Ghost Body is a memory palace in the form of a playable junkyard. It was built from the effort to index what remains, as psychic possession, of the landscape of childhood and adolescence, and the question of what to do in middle age with a vestigial homing instinct for a place no longer inhabited. What emerged was the visitation of three avatars who guide the player through three levels. Two are excursions into remnant memory landscapes (of age 9, of age 17). The third level is composed of micro compositions made from the pages of the morning book in which the memories were summoned (age 45, though six years have passed since that notebook was filled). Your Ghost Body is a video game with songs and dances, but on the 13th and 14th the game will unfold in the space of the Chocolate Factory and be playable live, filled with living, speaking, singing, dancing bodies.

Created by Karinne Keithley Syers with collaborators: Kate Benson (performer), John Gasper(performer), Aviva Jaye (performer), and Sara Walsh (designer).