Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!

B: I was at the end of a particularly good year for me when A, my mentor and former teacher, called me up. It was during a thunderstorm. —Hey A! A: I have to… I think I’m gonna kill her. B: … Kill who? (no answer) A? Who are you killing? A: Carmelita Tropicana. (A loud crack of THUNDER.) Thus begins Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! — part love letter to an iconic performance artist, part intergenerational debate about the legacy of “downtown” New York, part theatrical interrogation of the uses/abuses of nostalgia, real estate, representation, and the avant-garde, 100% fantastical journey in which Branden Jacobs-Jenkins attempts to buy Carmelita Tropicana from her creator…but at what cost?