The Exponential Festival Presents: Rainbow's End

The Exponential Festival presents Rainbow's End by Nic Adams

Set in New York City the morning before an ancient coin auction, Rainbow's End is an aural hallucination on the American daydream and the heroism of broke artists.

by Nic Adams

Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Produced by Melissa Mickens

Costumes by Karen Boyer

Sets by Ettie Pin

Lights by Andre Segar

Stage Managed by Deniz Demirkurt

​Featuring: Cristina Pitter, Essence Johnson

It’s the morning before an ancient coin auction in NYC and emerging artist Ciel is stuck working yet another menial temp assignment. An old money bidder arrives early to inspect the legal tender and so begins a daydream about lottery winnings, caskets, sex fantasies, delulus of grandeur, Sergei Diaghilev, and Big Oil Banks. The physical characters onstage duet with the voices in their heads, mounting a tragicomic class stand-off and a toast to the relentless spirit of artists living on the brink of precarity.

cw: sexual content

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Written by Nic Adams (, , ) and directed by Princess Grace Award-winner Marissa Joyce Stamps (, ). ​

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