THEY DO NOT MOVEby Brian Jucha with the Catastrophic ensemble
Performances
Cast & Personnel
Director
Cast
- Noel Bowers
- Amy Bruce
- Tamarie Cooper
- Dillon Dewitt
- Karina Pal Montaño-Bowers
- Gabriel Regojo
- Miika Stewart
- Kyle Sturdivant
Band
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Prop Design
Stage Manager
The Play
Using found text, music, stylized physicality, and an abundance of pop culture references They Do Not Move winds its way through an imagined American future in which democracy has been defeated and a disorganized band of vagrants, waifs, and strays are hunted by monarchist forces. Their only defense? An expressionist cavalcade of song and dance. There will be a beauty pageant. There will be a sitcom. There will be conversion therapy. Horror movies, cancel culture, and Texas law feature prominently in this oddly moving, frenetically funny love letter to our city, a devised dance-theatre piece that could only come from the mind of Brian Jucha. Like each of his works, They Do Not Move is sublimely derivative and apropos of everything.
Jucha previously collaborated with IBP and Catastrophic to create Last Rites (1997), We Have Some Planes (2002), and Toast (2019). In its cover story, American Theatre magazine called We Have Some Planes “darkly hilarious and compelling… like the best of remembered dreams” and said, “Jucha and the extraordinary Infernal Bridegroom company have given us a way to open our eyes.”
The Playwright
In the Media
Beautifully Chaotic They Do Not Move Opens at Catastrophic Theatre
Review: THEY DO NOT MOVE Enthralls Audiences at The Catastrophic Theatre

…every performer has such strong and disarming performances that break the fourth wall and make you confront the realities that we live in.
Review: Catastrophic Theatre’s ‘They Do Not Move’ is a night of chaos, dancing and joy
