The Chaos Theory of Now
By Jennifer Joy
The Dream Up Festival @ Theater for the New City, East Village, NYC
In this intelligent and entertaining solo performance, lesbian comedian and science maven Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek uses science’s chaos theory to illuminate our uncertain times. Inspired in part by her own far-right Republican farm family, Jennifer portrays a diversity of wild characters, including a Trump-voting farm wife, a lesbian liberal rural politician, an Evangelical homeschooling mom, and a teen punk Antifa activist. She reveals how America got to this point - and what’s next in our unsettled country. At the edge of chaos lies either total ruin or creative new beginnings. Which side will we end up on? Who will we become?
Reviews
“Jennifer Joy is not just a clever writer—she’s brilliant, because she devoted her entire 90 minutes to a rich exploration of her own psyche and its possibilities.”
— William J. Cataldi / Hi! Drama
“Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek’s performance of her one-woman show, The Chaos Theory of Now, is a raw and rare delight. Raw because of the self- exposure that makes good art, and rare because it is seldom done with such honesty, intelligence and complete surrender to the material.”
— David Walters / The Front Row Center