Sean Edward Lewis and Laura Murphy at Lilac Co and St. John's Theatre. Photo by Philippe Theise

“Cop Piece: Undercover Mime,” the new play from Greenpoint company Lilac Co and St. John’s Theatre, delves into the frenetic cohabitation of two marginalized, unsteady characters who claim to be on the run: David, a former beat cop, and Cleo, a vampish malcontent in the fragrance industry.

“We all go through periods that can’t be skirted,” David declares in an unusually lucid moment, and this principle underlies the pair’s expression of and assault on their afflictions with a variety of dubious tactics. “I love pornography. Maybe, with that love, we can build something,” Cleo opines. It doesn’t happen.

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Photos by Yuki Wakamaki

Last night, in a dilapidated two-room storefront at 94 Norman Ave, local company lilac co and st john’s theatre ended its run of Cop Piece, a work-in-progress written by company co-founder and Greenpoint resident Sean Edward Lewis. Thursday night’s show included a slide presentation and a poetry reading before the play.

Narrating his slideshow in a meandering style that alternated between collapse and recovery, Chris Domenick spoke about ants, bees, living in New York, a pigeon named Baudelaire, the Macaulay Culkin film “My Girl,” and the codependency of his aunt and grandmother. He punctuated his talk with plenty of pauses, and with so many “and, ums” that the simple utterance became resonant, like a performance art om. The fixity of the slides, which ranged from images of yellow cabs to a shot of an ostrich egg that Domenick and a traveling partner threw off the Cape of Good Hope, both belied and complemented the loose associativeness of his discourse.

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