Award-Winning Irish Choreographer Luke Murphy Returns With THE MILKYBOY KID

Award-winning Irish choreographer Luke Murphy ("Sleep No More" original cast member: Boston, New York, Shanghai) returns to NYC this November 9th and 10th with "The Milkyboy Kid", a new one-man show on the chameleon nature of performers and performance, and Murphy's own blurred lines of fiction and reality.

Through a mixture of storytelling, film and Murphy's own virtuosic physicality "The Milkyboy Kid" examines relationships between who you are, who you want to be and who you pretend to be. Maybe "the body never lies" (Martha Graham) but then again "if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made" (Groucho Marx). Maybe the fiction is all there is.

Sometimes personal, sometimes profane Murphy channels his own questions, battles, and experiences as he searches for truth amidst his life in fiction. Constantly transforming, Murphy becomes "The Milkyboy Kid": the hero, the villain, the coward, the showman, the leader, and the child - each character emerging and dissipating as he struggles to find the right person to be.

"Anyone who has seen him can testify: Murphy's svelte and humble demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography... his self-examinations are best present in his explosive body" - broadwayworld.com

"The Milkyboy Kid" is presented in partnership with FailSafe Festival. Supported by the Guest Artist program of The Performance Project @ University Settlement.

Ticket Information: $15 General Admission

https://milkyboykid.brownpapertickets.com/

Luke Murphy is an Irish performer working with Punchdrunk 2009-2018, Ultima Vez 2014-2018, Kate Weare 2011-2013, Pavel Zustiak, Martha Clarke and others. Since 2012 he has created six evening length works through his own company Attic Projects. Murphy is a 2018 DanceIreland Associate Artist and received a 2016 NEFA National Dance Project Touring Award, in addition to numerous commissions and residencies both in Ireland and abroad. Additionally, Murphy curates and directs the Catch8 workshop series, Ireland's only professional workshop festival. He is working towards the opening of a new residency centre in West Cork, Ireland.

Founded in 2014 by choreographer and performer Luke Murphy, Attic Projects operates as a producer, incubator and facilitator of projects in a range of mediums. Working across the platforms of dance, theatre, film and installation Attic Projects encourages imagination, challenges expectation and seeks new ideas to provoke new conversations. With a visceral, physical language at its heart, Attic Projects produces bold, contemporary works finding the universal within the deeply personal.