FRAY Show Evolves!

FRAY Show - Sadler’s Wells, Lilian Baylis Theatre

June 21-22, 2024

The FRAY Show is getting some new circuitry as I welcome a growing team of collaborators to join the creative team in exploring the frontier of hip hop dance theater. We dive right into the fray, picking up Tullio and Ziya’s story in their late teens as their brotherly bond unravels when Ziya is lured into a spellbinding virtual world by “Lucious,” an AI character he's created for a video game contest.  The contest calls for building a great puzzle game, but as Ziya's growing illusion blurs the line between real and virtual, the brothers are drawn into a real-life quandary in which restoring the frayed connections of their deep relationship means confronting the reality that people are the greatest puzzles of all.  FRAY weaves a vivid tapestry of music, hip hop dance, large screen visuals and spoken word as Tullio and Ziya struggle with what it means to love a brother, and with the very nature of what it means to be human.