La MaMa, in association with Collapsable Giraffe, presents the world premiere of Object Collection’s Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3, a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Éric Rohmer’s 1980’s film cycle Comédies et Proverbes, for two weeks this June.

Brooklyn-based ensemble Object Collection, “one of the essential voices in New York’s contemporary theater scene” (BOMB), returns to La MaMa with its newest work, Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3, based on legendary French film director Éric Rohmer’s 1980s film cycle Comédies et Proverbes about love and desire. Directed by Kara Feely, with text and music composed by Travis Just, Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3 reignites Object Collection’s signature maximalist aesthetic in a kaleidoscopic surge of 21st-century disembodied romance.

Following two filmed episodes streamed last year as part of the Exponential Festival, the first of which was called a “stoned soap opera that hints at demonic powers…roughage for the synapses” (Helen Shaw, Vulture), Episode 3 features a cast of live actors maneuvering among hallucinatory projected bodies. Its dizzying text derives from applying music composition techniques to the original film scripts, creating a dialogue of bizarre innuendo and mysterious word formulae. A score of piano with effects and improvised woodwinds accompanies this, performed live on stage by an ensemble of musicians.

Look Out Sh!^head Episode 3 is performed by Elena Russo Arman, Francesco Gagliardi, Alenka Kraigher, Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Alessandro Magania, Daniel Allen Nelson, Nicolás Noreña, Alessandra Novaga, James Oldham, Fulya Peker, and Timothy Scott. Musicians John Hastings (processed piano) and Travis Just (woodwinds and computer). With scenic design by Peiyi Wong, lighting by Kate McGee, and film and video by David Pym. Episode 3 was partially filmed by the actors in their homes in Istanbul, Ljubljana, London, Milan, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and New York City.