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RECTANGLES is an original solo performance-art clown musical by Maddie Mutations. 45 min of pooping, people-pleasing, and performance-art. Bjork x Pee-wee’s Playhouse in this punk hyper-pop body horror opera that will leave you feeling held. She paints herself as the mutating jester of the room depicting an absurdist allegory of sharp shapes tearing up her tummy. Get sucked into a world of blocks and blood and see this punk hyper-pop opera before the toilet gets flushed.
The driving force in this musical is Mutation’s captivatingly emotive and robust voice. Their takes over the stage as she whimsically and manically consumes blocks and painfully panics over them poking her insides. Rectangles are more than meets the eyes as she compares them to the sharp needs of others, real and imagined, that maddie struggles to reject as they pile up undigested. She scream at them, loves them, and ejects them, comically and hyperbolically depicting this internal battle. For 45 minutes, red, yellow, and blue blocks get devoured into her maximalist costume, belting her staggeringly strange yet surreally sincere songs to the tranfixed attention of the audience. Then, a Seuss-ian puppet is rambunctiously revealed in a surprise ending.
I’ve been workshopping this piece since 2021 and audiences say it’s something they’ve never seen before. From avant-garde lullaby punk songs like “Scronch my Haunch” to Lynch-ian synth ballads like “Mistake”, these songs slap people awake with weirdness and then pull them close with their hauntingly rich harmonies. Endearing neurodivergent rambling narrations, ruminate on this strange pain in my belly, what the point of my butt surgery was, and explore the core metaphor that compares the damaging act of eating blocks with the real life harm my people pleasing behaviors cause me.
I start the show with eyes closed, chanting myself through an introverted seance. I whisper and then shout “RECTANGLES”, and slowly start selecting blocks to eat from a pile beside me. The Rectangles lore begins. You’re in my head, my deep husky voice hugging your ear – a stark contrast to the BANG your ear receives when I shift to my lewd hip hop number. It feels chaotic! And so is changing your mental patterns. My childlike props help to actualize intangible concepts.
Throughout my time performing this piece, I’ve played for packed backyards, loud bars, and underground art warehouses, working through the kinks with each new pair of eyes. I look forward now, to playing for the fringe community and am amped to see how this audience can receive me!
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