Bedroom Theater

It began when Gabe’s roommate changed the light bulb in my bedroom at Hardcore—the loft where he lived at the time, pictured above. It continued through two years in that form before we took it on the road, from Boston to New Orleans to LA to Seattle, in a 1971 VW minibus and with a girl who broke up with Mr. Boyer after their first week on the road. (All of which has been captured in the memoir, Welcome to Weltschmerz.) That summer ended in a five-hour crying spree in the Nevada desert, and although Bedroom Theater was declared over by the end of it, it will also never be over.

Bedroom Theater is a productionless event in which there is no audience, only people performing for each other. It can occur anywhere and anywhen, and has been resuscitated in Oregon and Chicago. It has been incorporated into other tours, and we have put out two books about it as well as filming a number of related events showcased below.

If you would like some guidance as to how to open your bedroom up for a little in the way of theatrics, please feel free to email us at mail@mutablesound.com. The first thing I would recommend is to take a gander at our Collection of Conversations for Everyday Use, as it contains everything you need in the ay of absurdist dialogues for the whole family!

Boyer is always open to performing a one-man show of the Crucible, although he currently lives in Southeast Asia, so any one-man shows may have to be live-streamed from the suburbs of Hanoi.

What else do you need to know? Everyone is a performer, but who among us have performed all-nite bedroom theater even in our wildest dreams?