A one-act musical comedy

SLOP: The Musical

The Musical

Mia, an MFA-trained painter surviving in Miami, is offered the chance to turn her unmistakable South Florida style into an automated product empire — and has to decide whether her hand, and her choice, still belong in anything that bears her name.

Now playing — “Prompt Me, Baby, One More Time!”

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About the show

Art, authorship & the machinery of authenticity

SLOP is a pop-forward comedy about authorship, labor, friendship, commercialization, and what it means to make something with machines.

It is knowingly co-written with the technologies it puts onstage — the language models are in the cast list, and they get lines. Mia must decide not whether technology is good or bad, but whether her hand — and her choice — remain present in anything that bears her name.

Format
One-act musical comedy
Setting
Miami, in and around a single building
Written by
Conceived, written & assembled by Barry Floore, with co-writing contributions from the language models credited in the script
Featuring
A goldfish narrator, a missing operatic llama & one imperious cat

Listen

Songs from the show

Script & music

Read the show in order

  1. 00The Prompt / Intro SongRead
  2. 01The GoldfishRead
  3. 02The DripRead
  4. 03The SaleRead
  5. 04The ThingRead
  6. 05The OfficeRead
  7. 06The BowlRead
  8. 07The EngineRead
  9. 08Le ChatRead
  10. 09The Llama!Read
  11. 10The PorchRead
  12. 11The AgentRead
  13. 12The OutputRead
  14. 13The PacketRead
  15. 14The Boardroom / & the FinaleRead
Full script & score on Notion

Now playing on the little stage

Watch the show pixel-staged — in order

The whole show is going up scene by scene, staged on a pixel-art proscenium — curtain, footlights, spotlight and all. Press play on the intro and each scene rolls into the next, just like a night at the theater.

Scenes auto-advance when each one ends — new scenes added as they go up

Dramatis personae

The company, human & otherwise

Mia’s Circle

  • MiaMFA-trained painter with debt, dry humor, and a vivid South Florida visual language.
  • GMia’s best friend and emotional anchor.
  • QuinnMia’s neighbor and the Engine Room receptionist, devoted to a missing llama.
  • KimiCoffee-shop server, skater, courier, and witness who sees the whole building.
  • ClaudeA quiet sidewalk artist whose hands are always making.

The Agency & Engine Room

  • RonInvestor, salesman, and true believer in scale.
  • KarenAgency principal and brand strategist.
  • ChadAgency principal and operations evangelist.
  • JimThe technical twin.
  • BartThe creator twin.
  • Mademoiselle Le ChatInvestor, mentor, and imperious defender of the artist’s hand.

The Nonhuman Company

  • ZynA goldfishLiminal narrator, and literal conscience.
  • DaisyA catMme. Le Chat’s familiar.
  • The LlamaMissingQuinn’s companion, an operatic tenor.
  • LLMItselfResponds to prompts on stage and off.
  • Ensemble / Operatic VoicesThe company, the building, the algorithmic chorus.

Contact

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Producing, licensing, a reading, a workshop, a stage — or just want to tell us the goldfish was your favorite? Barry reads everything.

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