Moriah Evans

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. 

Co-Commissioned with the Walker Art Center.

[…/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] confronts the body as a of political and existential conundrums. A sequence of circumstances — internal and external, individual and collective — evolve for performers and public. Through a compositional structure that circulates bodies, meaning, and value through repetition and a series of changing relationships, Evans asks what it means to give, take, receive, and be taken. It is not merely a choreography of movement and sound, but one about power, dependency, and worth. It explores gratitude, anxiety, and regret through empathetic connection, ecstasy, and complaint.

Direction and Choreography: Moriah Evans with Performers: Cyril Baldy, Malcolm-x Betts, Chloë Engel, Kris Lee, João dos Santos Martins, Varinia Canto Vila; Lighting Design: Madeline Best; Scenic Design: Doris Dziersk; Sound Design: Ian Douglas Moore; Costumes: Strauss Bourque-LaFrance; Dramaturgy: Joshua Lubin-Levy; Fabrication: Matt Shalzi; Studio Management: Margaret Knowles.