do not spare by daniel lang/levitsky

do not spare by daniel lang/levitsky

do not spare
a toy theater show in three parts and two interludes

by daniel lang/levitsky

with music by leah harmon

and additional puppetry by michael casey

at

The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

double images.  i tempt beirut - she wears me and i wear her.  that coastal dream.  handmade montage as toy theater.  time easing out.  that day your smell will cling to me like wine.  dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are.  andalus  caribe, bilad al-sham    new york.   never reveal how far the body would go.  the glory i wear in your shameful name.  odes, cities, bodies.  touch as thought.  pajaros, sarasas, apios, floras (tambien ese).  my homeland is this spark, this lightning in the darkness of the time that remains.

with words by frank o'hara, adonis, solomon ibn gabirol, yehuda halevi, federico garcia lorca, and samuel r. delany