Malfeasance

Stacy Makishi once again strides into uncharted, snowbound and doughnut-shaped territory, in search of something that sounds like identity, but thankfully turns out not to be. Her performance of "Bull: The True Story" at the Chelsea Theatre delights in flooding the pre-show audience with the performance, and contaminating the performance with the audience.

Two guests from the audience are blindfolded, and stood in front of a doughnut suspended by string from the ceiling; they lick and prod with their noses, hesitantly. Stacy is possessed by the spirit of characters within "Fargo", weirdly re-enacting responses and motor functions from the movie and pre-empting her audience's relationship with the doughnut.

This chilling symptom-esque physical projection is a parallel of the disturbing story of a (real?) Japanese woman searching for the fictional (?) money buried in the snow in the film "Fargo"; Stacy embeds vanishings and noisy fictions into the performance without so much as a missed missing persons poster. If this wasn't already enough, there's a tour de force of a self-re-morphing with a pair of tights pulled grotesquely over her head. Winning stuff.