A slap in the face – that’s the leitmotif. A plugged ear, thus no voice – that’s the key signature. A raised knife – harmonic development. Three flicks of the tabletop – a fugue subject. Awkwardly Social takes the precision of percussion and puts it in the Black Box. Once inside, it takes a tip from Schrödinger’s cat and assumes a superposition. Both theater and music. Neither theater nor music.

QuaQuaQua presents a program of theatrically-inspired works by Mark Applebaum, Thierry De Mey, and the unconscionable François Sarhan