A post-apocalyptic comedy with a side of existential dread

 “Welcome to Tyler’s, where a stranger is just a friend waiting to happen.“

Come meet the idiosyncratic, delightfully panicked community who works and shops at Tyler’s, a grocery store at the edge of the world. The Baker knits in the breakroom, while the Butcher laments a time gone by. In the cold air pouring from an open freezer case, The Wife and Mother dreams of a life she failed to live. By the dumpster in the alley, the cashier communes with the coyote, vaping and laughing, baring bellies and swapping secrets. Tenderness resides here. 

Do you, dear theatergoer, currently find yourself disoriented, disassociated, confused as to where to find “reality?” Do you yearn for less screen time, better dreams, and a fresh head of lettuce plucked from the ground? Then these are your people, this is your theatre.

In Frozen Section, an intentional community of shoppers and workers reckons with the recent arrival of a trickster coyote and supports their youngest, Sage, as they prepare to move on to a new city, a new life.

FROZEN SECTION stars Catastrophic core artists Noel Bowers, Raymond Compton, Jovan Jackson, Rebecca Randall, Jeanne Harris, Jeff Miller, T Lavois Thiebaud, Clarity Welch, and Abraham Zeus Zapata. Directed by Jason Nodler.

WORLD PREMIERE

ABOUT LISA D'AMOUR

Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, educator and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans. Her plays have been produced across the US and the Globe , including at Manhattan Theater Club (NYC - Broadway), Playwrights Horizons (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans), The National Theater (UK) and of course Catastrophic Theatre. In addition to writing plays, Lisa is co-Artistic Director of PearlDamour, a company that creates interdisciplinary, often site-specific performances that range from intimate to large scale. Recent work with PearlDamour includes Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown (currently touring), and MILTON, a performance and community engagement experiment rooted in 5 U.S. towns named Milton. Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the recipient of the 2008 Alpert Award for the Arts in theater, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award and a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Lisa received an MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin is currently the Distinguished Lecturer in Playwriting at the University of Houston. She lives in New Orleans where she is on the co-leadership team for Trinity City Arts.

Catastrophic forerunner Infernal Bridegroom Productions commissioned and premiered her 2005 play Hide Town. Subsequently, Catastrophic produced her Anna Bella Eema in 2011 and Detroit (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama) in 2014. 

“Speaks to the fractious, frightened American moment more perceptively than any play I’ve seen on a New York stage.” – The New York Times

APRIL 4 - APRIL 19, 2025

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This production is recommended for audiences 12 and older.

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