The Exponential Festival and The Brick present
PRISONCORE!
by kanishk pandey
January 2-4, 2025
PRISONCORE! is a multimedia show that places the audience within a panopticon to examine the impact of an always-watching eye. Lucky is starting his job as the night shift guard in the guard tower of a new panopticon prison claiming to focus on reform. Lucky introduces the inmates to Rain, a popular VTuber dealer who streams for an online casino. Their ideas of freedom are challenged after a moment of indifferent cruelty and we are left questioning who is getting sacrificed for our ‘freedoms’.
Written by kanishk pandey
Directed by Rachel Gita Karp
Media design and marketing by Lauren Serafica
Produced by Thalia Sablon, Emma Richmond
Cast: Rory Kulz, Kayla Juntilla
Stage Manager: Alisa Rabin
Projection Design by Mars Doutey
Set Design and lighting design by Kelvin Pater
Sound Design by Ariana Cardoza
Costume design by Lissa Carandang-Sweeney
Content warnings: violence, a reference to execution, and workplace abuse.
Co-Produced by TROVE
THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL
JANUARY’S BROOKLYN-BASED THEATRE FESTIVAL
~ A pleasure, a mess, a thrill, and a dream. ~
Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields.
