A Fine Madness

For the final show of the 2025-26 season, Woolly Mammoth Company Artist Justin Weaks invites us to the intersection of ‘performance’ and ‘event’ for a radical act of remembrance.

Inspired by the mission of the Voyager Golden Record, A Fine Madness calls on its audience to participate in the creation of a new record of shared humanity through a kaleidoscope of poetry, games, music, scientific findings and storytelling. Through retelling and reclaiming his own personal journey as a Black gay man living in Washington D.C. and newly diagnosed with HIV, Justin seeks to create a new archive that is inclusive of his lived experience and those of the people in the room. As the line blurs between performer and audience, space opens for discovery and healing. A Fine Madness is both experiment and celebration, experience and discovery, and an act of affirmation in the face of erasure. For the record!

ABOUT THE TOUR
Following the March 2024 workshop presentation of A Fine Madness at Woolly Mammoth, we are thrilled to bring this project back to DC audiences in the form of a local tour where the piece is performed for the public in different D.C. communities and cultural hubs.