Kissing Friends is an intimate theatrical experience of storybook narrations spoken/created in collaboration with the cast. The movement and dialogue fold in and out of reality and daydreams inside the overarching container of friendship in relation to intimacy. As the show continues to unfold the audience acts as the performers’ inner psyche, a mirror reflecting our dreams back at us. The viewers will experience these stories, along with flashy movements in unison that will signify a strong sense of togetherness. Rituals will crescendo into an uproar to sounds by Noel Harrison, Celine Dion and several others. The audience might begin to ask themselves what's at stake for these friends? What is signified inside of an opening kiss? Singing, thrashing, yelling, slow-aborning affection, tensions running high and eruptive meltdowns take us to a place far from reality that may or may not be a dreamland.

Kissing Friends is presented as part of The Evolution Festival at The Center at West Park, an annual program presenting original works of theater, dance, music, and interdisciplinary performance. For more information and to learn about the other shows in the festival, visit https://www.centeratwestpark.org/evolution-festival-2023

The Center at West Park’s Evolution Festival is made possible, in part, with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.