To our neighbor, Kat:

Kat, haven’t seen you in a while. Hope everything is okay.

We spoke, I don’t know, maybe it was a month ago, and you asked, “What you been into, J?”

I told you I hadn’t been up to much, but that I was getting ready to perform a play.

“Okay. Okay.” You responded. “What play you fixin to do, J?”

I said we were going to do COUCH PLAY, by our friend Theo Reyna, who’s from just over there, across Biscayne.

“COUCH PLAY, huh?”

“Yeah,” I responded.

“Is that play about a couch or something?”

“Yeah, it is.”

“Okay. Okay. I’ll be seeing you J, let me know when you fixin to put up that play.”

“Yeah, man, I will.”

Well, Kat, like I said, we haven’t seen you in a while. We’re doing that play, COUCH PLAY, by our friend Theo Reyna, on the 21^st and 22^nd of October at 8pm. That’s two days only, Kat. It’s going to be at the SANDBOX in Miami Shores at 9806 NE 2^nd Ave.

It would be really nice to see you there, Kat. Hope everything is okay.

Man Research Theatre Company

Exploring our collective consciousness. Me and you, your mama and your cousin too.

ON A MISSION

Mankind is not merely a concept, but a living reality that moves and breathes. We are connected by more than our words, our relationships, our history or ideas. We are the same stuff.

Man Research seeks to know this stuff: bare, honest, in its fundamental state.

There is no place where humans are that this stuff does not exist. There is no situation in which we cannot find it, and there is no person alive who does not know it. Thus, there is no limit to our scope in seeking it out, and there is no one who is incapable of contributing to our understanding of it.

We believe this stuff, as a thread, strings together every living human on the planet. It stretches from the core of our individual beings to create a web of commonality among our species.

Our aim is to illuminate the existence of this thread. Through research and experimentation, we find new work and new methods to bring that which is common to every living human to the forefront of a collective consciousness.