dark indie-rock band – “too moody for pride”
Our original Jane Eyre adaptation, written along side Grapefruit Lab’s production. You can listen to it here or anywhere you stream, Pre-order the vinyl record, and then join us for the stage show!
We’re bringing back our popular queer adaptation of Jane Eyre, created with Grapefruit Lab.
Our original Jane Eyre adaptation, written along side Grapefruit Lab’s production. You can listen to it here or anywhere you stream, Pre-order the vinyl record, and then join us for the stage show!
Bertha Mason, the original Mrs. Rochester, has not been treated well – not by her husband, and not by the Charlotte Brontë either.
This is a major turning point for Jane’s journey – and the first of several relationships that define Jane’s coming of age.
The first Jane/Eyre single is named after the book young Jane reads at the start of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, and our stage adaptation with Grapefruit Lab.
For our second album, we revisit a unified piece of storytelling and music in four movements. This is a modern Denver mythology, based on the Greek stories of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis. This was also developed into a theater production with Grapefruit Lab.
As our album-release is overtaken by a Denver mythology, Dan and Sondra and Miriam have to contend with friendship, loss, identity, memory, and a cursed pool that makes men soft.
A playful and intimate exploration of love, comfort, and home in a world on fire.
Global Pandemic
We are not here to flatter egotism, or prop up humbug; we are merely telling the [queer] story. We value what is good in the book; but we believe in the existence of other, and more vivid kinds of goodness.
The Denver Quarterly
vol 51 no 2 features
side-by-side excerpts from
Riding SideSaddle*,
and Buntport’s adaptation:
10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Products.
A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.
Founded in 2001, The UMS is an annual three-day celebration of music featuring hundreds of bands across multiple venues.
A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.
A hybrid evening of music & story
We’re excited to be part of the single release for Species of the Stars by our good friends Open to the Hound!
In the summer of 2015, we released our debut EP in conjunction with Riding SideSaddle* and a tour across the midwest.
In the summer of 2015, we released our debut EP in conjunction with Riding SideSaddle* and a tour across the midwest.
For a few years, Teacup Gorilla performed & recorded music with Rachel Eisenstat – initially as Iron City, and later as Raven Jane.
Combining the sacrifice, transcendence, blood, and circumstance of the Catholic Mass with history, live music, science, dance, literature, and pop culture to find a wholly modern communion experience. What we have left is our selves, broken and battered, but surviving together.