The Exponential Festival Presents: Creature/Comfort

Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

LIFE WORLD | Brooklyn

The Exponential Festival
Publisher/HostThe Exponential Festival
The Exponential Festival Presents: Creature\/Comfort
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This campy synth-pop musical reminds us that monsters can’t be stopped, but they can be loved.
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The Exponential Festival presents Creature/Comfort by Mann & Materials

It's a hot historical romance unlike any other: a mad scientist and his devoted assistant, their collection of monstrous experiments, and the FBI hot on their trail. Created by drag duo Mann & Materials, this campy synth-pop musical reminds us that monsters can’t be stopped, but they can be loved.

Director: Benita de Wit
Sound Production and Design: Aine Brown
Production Design: Kay Wasil
Writers: Excess Materials and Hugh Mann Race
Producer: Henry Lang

It's 1953, and Dr. Bartholomew Bright and his faithful assistant Kevin have one goal: to make the perfect monster. But with the FBI closing in, will their experiments succeed? Or will they be caught before Kevin has the chance to confess that his feelings for Dr. Bright are more than just scientific? Created by drag duo Mann & Materials, this campy musical comedy asks just how much we’ll transform for love. Featuring an original synth-pop score, fantastical monstrous puppets, and homosexual awakenings, Creature/Comfort invites its audience to find (and lovingly embrace) the monster within.

cw: gunshots

Find them: @creaturecomfortmusical @hughmannrace @excessmaterialsexcessmaterials

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based early-career artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

LIFE WORLD, 563 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, United States

Tickets

USD 28.52 to USD 55.20

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