PLAGUE by The No Ring Circus Orchestra

Months ago, I was tasked with playing Prospero for Dances of Vice's "Masque of The Red Death" event.

For the occasion I created these poems and performed to them as our evening moved down a long darkened corridor, from pleasant to plague-ridden. Performances included ritual blood-letting, two knights in armor, a life sized crucifix, and my own funeral whereat dozens of leather clad dommes, bears, daddies and subs lay tulips upon my coffin-displayed carcass.

On the first full day of our Corona Virus quarantine, as Daphne and I don strange outfits and welcome people in need, from daredevils, to lovers, to friends in our upstate hideaway, it seems only appropriate to release these poems as an album, in perverse tribute (and because we lost literally all of our sources of income and so even the occasional 5$ album purchase helps).

Stay well. Stay indulgent. Stay up late.

The No Ring Circus is focused on the avant-garde fusion of theatre with ritual, circus, and kink, using sideshow and traditional circus skills to tell a theatrical story, and not just as an accessory to one. We seek to rethink sideshow and circus skills outside of their niche and present them to a wider audience as intrinsic elements of our stories, not tokens.

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