Kyoung's Pacific Beat: NERO

Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s NERO is thrilled to return to The Exponential Festival this February 1st from 7:00pm-8:30pm. Come join for this free event at The Brick Aux, located at 628 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn.

This event will feature a rough-cut screening of KPB’s new work-in-progress, NERO - Act 2, followed by a panel examining innovations in pandemic theater with Diep Tran (Editor, Playbill), Juan Michael Porter (Senior Editor, TheBody.com), Theresa Buchheister (Artistic Director, The Exponential Festival) and Kyoung H. Park (Playwright/Director, NERO).

NERO is a Shakespearean, five-act “streamplay” theatricalizing the history from George W. Bush’s War on Terror to our present day as the rise and fall of Nero’s Roman Empire. Set in 64AD in Rome’s Palace of the Frogs, this “state of the nation” tragicomedy invites Black, Indigenous and People of Color to examine how white male supremacy is the root of American Imperialism.

The NERONIA is a hybrid event that includes both a screening of this theatrical production presented jointly with live, community-driven, cultural invocations of a post-white supremacist world.