The Electrolysis Farewell Tour

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evening-length performance
2017
Ars Nova
New York, NY

The Electrolysis Farewell Tour Brought To You By Cosmetech™ is a performance piece in the form of a pop concert. Lava Saudade is an sixty-three year old international pop star, and sex symbol. She is covered in fur, and this is the last night of her farewell tour before she undergoes full-body electrolysis at the Cosmetech™ International Electrolysis Institute's Center for Hair Removal Research in Stockholm. 

The concert covers Lava’s five-decade career, including her childhood in a Christian family band, her relationship with her controlling manager/husband, and other eerliy familiar biographical details cobbled together from recurring narratives in the lives of real-life female pop stars. The show features ten original songs, and video segments from a tour-exclusive documentary about Lava, giving the audience background about her career, and her much-publicized romances and public breakdowns, as well as advertisements from the tour's sponsor, Cosmetech™. The concert ends with officials from Cosmetech™ and the I.E.I.C.H.R.R escorting her offstage and restraining her when she changes her mind about the procedure.