The NYC premiere of two monologues by Aaron Landsman. Empathy School is performed by Jim Findlay, and co-created with filmmaker and composer Brent Green. An out-of-work bus driver riffs a layered, immersive story on an overnight ride through rural Illinois; rough music, played by Green, Kate Ryan and Todd Chandler, creaks and throbs; Green’s scratched images flicker by like memories you may not have known you had. How is the landscape you grew up in etched into the body you live with now? This piece was commissioned by EMPAC and performed on a moving bus. Now it’s reimagined for Abrons’ Playhouse. Running concurrently is Love Story, a story about a disappearing city, two people navigating it, told by a sympathetic, fidgety, obsessive, marginal misfit. Developed at the Collapsable Hole and Fusebox, the piece was re-written for actor Frank Harts, with original music by T. Griffin and projections by Janet Wong.