THE FEATH3R THEORY PRESENTS:
From the creators of DRELLA; Color Me, Warhol; The Love Episode; UGLY; and Hysteria comes a new kind of performance. A Game Play. Part game-show and part stage-play, The KILL ONE Race, created by Raja Feather Kelly. This work is inspired by the social experiments of William Greaves (Symbiopsychotaxiplasm), Lars von Trier (Dogville), the dystopian novels of Leslie Louis (Kill One) and Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), and the evolution of early televised game shows. Kelly questions: Do we make culture or does Culture Make us, and in The KILL ONE Race brings this inquiry of pop culture’s omnipotence into the very onscreen forms it deconstructs.
Filmed at Playwrights Horizons during the pandemic, and inspired by 1963 dystopian novel Kill One, The KILL ONE Race is a reality competition game-play created by Raja Feather Kelly and his dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory. Over the course of seven days, seven contestants compete in a social and ethical obstacle course to be proven the most ethical—and earn the singular prize of death. Replete with ice-breakers, speed dates, confessionals, sacred rituals, murder plots, and copious dancing, The KILL ONE Race is part-documentary, part theater, and part reality TV game show.
The KILL ONE Race
Created by Raja Feather Kelly
Commissioned and Presented by Playwrights Horizon
Production Design - Raja Feather Kelly
Laura Snow - Media Producer, Lead Editor
Tuce Yasak - Lighting Design
You-Shin Chen - Set Design
Sophie Maguire - Set Design
CJ Ferroni - Director of Photography
Remy Kurs - Music
Kate Enman - Photography
Brandi Holt - Company Management
Colm Summers - Assistant to Director
Raja Feather Kelly - Assistant to Editor
Ilya Vidrin and Jessi Stegall - Ethics Consultants
Kevin Novinsky - Sound Engineer
Jacob Schmid - Assistant Sound Engineer
The Kill One Race has received generous support from The Invisible Dog, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Sydney Skybetter, Lucien Zayan, and New Brooklyn Theatre.