THE MILKYBOY KID

2018

A new one-man show on the chameleon-like nature of performers and performance, and the artist’s own blurred lines between fiction and reality. The Milkyboy Kid brings the audience into the melancholy world of a lone performer: robbed of his company, his finances, his tricks and his tactics, he's giving it all he's got in an evening of figuring out exactly what it is that he's got to give. 

Through a mixture of storytelling, film and Murphy's own virtuosic physicality The Milkyboy Kid examines relationships between who you are, who you want to be and who you pretend to be. Maybe "the body never lies" (Martha Graham) but then again "if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made" (Groucho Marx). Sometimes personal, sometimes profane, Murphy uses his own questions, experiences and battles to explore character, archetype, expectation, fantasy and the portrayal/pursuit of one’s own identity both on and off stage. 

Choreographed, Directed, and Performed by Luke Murphy