For the past 40 years, Jump-Start Performance Co. has functioned as a catalyst and habitat for experimental performance art and theatre.
The organization’s stated raison d’etre is to create new, hybridized theatrical works that defy simple definition. Adopting a Brechtian approach to presentation in which distinctions between stage and audience rupture over the duration of a performance, Jump-Start wholeheartedly embraces the avant-garde, the speculative and the downright bizarre.
Take CHUPACABRONA, a play opening this Friday that turns the appalling stain of femicide into a cringeworthy horror show along the lines of Teeth (2007) and Jennifer’s Body (2009), only mixed with the quasi-urban myth of the chupacabra.
However, in this cautionary tale, boys are the target of an as-of-yet unidentified demonic force or creature, and a group of local kids races to free the community of its scourge — before it’s too late.
Pay what you wish, 8-9:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 18-26, Jump-Start Performance Co., 710 Fredericksburg Road, (210) 227-5867, jump-start.org.
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This article appears in Apr 16-29, 2025.