Building on the impact of 2024’s The Life & Death of Art — My Dying City is a crude non-linear lament about gentrification, atrocities, war, revolt and the ever-widening chasm between those on the left amidst the rising fascistic “populist authoritarianism” in America. 

It shall seek to be an interrogation of our existential battles against injustices on the planet…and our enabling of them. 

We have no clue where this piece is headed…and that is the only reason we continue to work on it. Like life, it changes constantly, while seemingly being choreographed by some “mysterious other.” Will barbarism and imperialism and savagery be the one constant in life? What is art when your neighbor’s arms have been blown off? What is a future when all you can see is smoke from yesterday?

We are presenting an open rehearsal of the first half of “My Dying City” on MAY DAY 2025 - to an exclusive audience before rehearsals commence in the fall for a public run. Contact us for more details: kangaleearts@gmail.com

Fusing inspirations from Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade to Eric Bogosian‘s  Talk Radio, and Luigi Pirandello’s theatrical anarchism (“Six Characters in Search of an Author’), this current workshop is an absurdist tragicomedy geared towards Left-Wing activists, organizers, libration seekers and disgruntled romantics who call into the last broadcast of a rogue radical radio talk show. Imminent revolution and the current genocide collide outside – as the internal war festering within the dynamics of the radio show itself (the actors playing the parts, the callers on the show, etc.) explodes.

Images from the April 2025 rehearsals of My Dying City, the result of the Artist-in-Action fellowship granted to director Dennis Leroy Kangalee to develop new original work that concerns both the lives of artists and activists. (With Leila Dall’ Olmo, Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Deborah Dominguez, and Ward Nixon at JACK Arts in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn)