Bushwick Starr
207 Starr St., Brooklyn
July 13-14, $10-$15, 8:00
646-361-8512
thebushwickstarr.org
In the spring of 2011, Brooklynites Paul Rome and Roarke Menzies presented the one-act Calypso at the Storefront Gallery in Bushwick. Then, this past May, they presented a sold-out, extended evening-length version of the production at the Bushwick Starr, where it is back again July 13-14 by popular demand. Calypso sets a modern-day romance against elements from Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. As a young man and woman bond over Haruki Murakami and old calypso records in the West Village, Penelope waits for her husband, and Aeneas considers his future atop Mount Olympus. The show is written by Rome, inspired by such monologists as Joe Frank and Spalding Gray, with experimental electronic music supplied by Menzies. Rome and Menzies, who will read alternating narratives, have previously collaborated on And Once Again . . ., about a jazz record collector about to make a big score, and The You Trilogy.