The Flat Earth Glows
Masochistically marrying New York
By Ruth McCann
Wednesday, July 2nd 2008
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Annie Lanzillotto's The Flat Earth: WherdaFFFhuck Did New York Go?, a "narrative palimpsest," is vaunted as an experiment in "deconstructing Manhattan geology"—a description sure to strike fear into the hearts of those who are sick of preachy spoken-word. But Lanzillotto's performance simply glows; spiked with delightfully dyke-y humor, her anecdotal love affair with New York is an engrossing elegy for the city in flux. She and three other performers storm through 75 minutes of energetic narrative, concluding with a wedding in which she and the city are pronounced woman and wife. Before taking her vows, Lanzillotto admits (in her Bronx twang) that her love may well be masochistic: "New York City is a lover—a lover who leaves you for a rich girl."
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