Written by: Skylar J. Beirne

It's exactly what it sounds like - but wait, there's more!

Emma, mourning the “death of her fiancé,” picks up a book called Death: The Final Orgasm. She meets the author, falls in love, and decides to follow him to a community he has created as a safe-space for those with misunderstood kinks. Emma wants to belong to someone other than herself. Almighty Bob is working hard as a small business owner in denial about being a cult leader. There's 1970’s/80's music, beach parties, and lots of roller-skating – what more could you want from a death kink sex cult? As Emma navigates the different Levels of the roller rink death kink sex cult, trying to find a place within the community where Almighty Bob, and Almighty Bob alone, will accept her, she is met with murderers, sadists, masochists, necrophiliacs, and a really bitchy woman named Carol, all of whom make Emma question: which “skate” Level is she best suited for, and how far will she go to be wanted?

 

Cast
Allie Donnelly as EMMA
Daniel Oakley as ALMIGHTY BOB
Christina Cotignola as CAROL
Rose Meehan at SAM/AGENT JONES
Tessie Herrasti as HAPPY/AGENT SMITH
Jaxon Beirne as DEREK/THE SHADOW

Writer – Skylar J. Beirne (they/she) is a playwright, director, and “performer if you ask nicely” based out of New York City and Milford, Connecticut. Beirne’s work strives to provide both a mirror outward, reflecting the grotesqueness of humankind in spectacles of beautiful violence and divine aesthetic, and a microscope inwards, with every artistic venture being another step forward on the journey of self-discovery. Beirne invites the audience to join them on this journey, and hopefully leave the theater with something to think about, be it about themselves, or about the world at large.

Credits include roller rink death kink sex cult STAGED READING (playwright/director) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Press This Button To Elevate to Your Highest Frequency at The Vino Theater (director), Jet of Blood via Zoom (director), The Elephant Man at Marymount Manhattan College (director), Carrier Pigeon through Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival (playwright), and Man-I-Fest-O at Manhattan Repertory Theater (playwright). Follow along on Beirne’s artistic and human journey on Instagram @skyber and @rrdksc.