Start creating a new work of theatre from a classic fairy tale, and you might find yourself taking a detour through the “back to the land” movement, and wind up with a movement play full of original music, lovely light projections, and a manatee mask.

That’s an oversimplified way to describe Rady & Bloom‘s The Upper Room, currently playing at The New Ohio—but it’s a whole lot more than that.

Listen in as the Rady & Bloom, Brian Rady and Jeremy Bloom, along with composer/performer Catherine Brookman, discuss collaboration between song-writer and directors/creators, post-show parties, The Little Mermaid, working with your spouse, and the long haul.

“…there’s a thrust, there is a story, but we’re trying to express the inexpressible, we’re trying to express the feeling of, ‘what will happen next to me,’ or ‘what will happen to US…'”

Rady & Bloom and The New Ohio present

The Upper Room

written & directed by Jeremy Bloom & Brian Rady
music by Catherine Brookman

thru June 12, 2015
Tuesday–Saturday @8PM

The New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street
Manhattan

tickets: $18, available via Vendini

photo by Matthew Wells photos by James Matthew Daniel