THE GOO By K. Rose Dallimore to be Presented at New Relic Theatre
- New Relic Theatre
- Jul 22
- 3 min read
Originally published on BroadwayWorld by Chloe Rabinowitz.
NEW RELIC THEATRE, a Brooklyn-based performing arts company, announces their upcoming production of The Goo by K. Rose Dallimore.
NRT will present the world premiere of K. Rose Dallimore’s The Goo this fall, running September 19, 2025 through September 28, 2025 at The Chain Theatre (312 W 36th St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10018) as part of The Chain’s Factory Series.
The play follows six friends meeting for their annual picnic in Prospect Park—a harmless tradition that’s starting to rot. Old grudges flare, nerves twitch, and something’s… off. Beneath the paper plates and strained conversation, they’re all working to protect the same bizarre secret: a mutual friend named June. Beloved by all. Real to none. A dark comedy inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest, THE GOO by K. Rose Dallimore peers into the strange rituals of friendship and the stories we invent to keep it all from falling apart.
The Goo will have its world premiere in mid-September following invited developmental workshops earlier this year at Arts On Site. “It has been a joy and privilege to read this play in so many forms since we commissioned K. Rose to begin writing it last year,” said artistic director Eliza Palter. “Part picnic, part doom spiral, part magical realism—with a particular affection for Brooklyn transplants fumbling toward meaning—it is chaotic, earnest, and very much alive. K. Rose has created a sharp, strange world that encouraged us to reconsider how our productions could engage with classic texts, and we are so excited to bring it to life this fall.”
The Goo will be directed by Eliza Palter and produced by Chris Phillips. Performances will run from September 19 through September 28, 2025 at The Chain Theatre (312 W 36th St. 4th floor, New York, NY 10018). Tickets can be purchased at newrelictheatre.org/upcoming.
The Goo was commissioned through New Relic Theatre’s Early Career Artist Fellowship. For more information, or to donate and support new works by young artists, click here.
K. Rose Dallimore is a poet, playwright, educator, restorative practitioner, and advocate based in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in Rough Cut Press, Anodyne Magazine, The Wild Umbrella, The B'K. and Lenticular, among others. Her plays have been performed at The Quickening Room in NYC (2023) and at the Kennedy Center in DC, as a part of the Open Doors Festival (2024) and she was a member of the Arena Stage Emerging Playwrights Roundtable (2020-2021). She graduated from Georgetown University in 2022 with a degree in International Politics. She is originally from New York City and Chattanooga, Tennessee but is proud to call DC home.
Eliza Palter is a Texas-born director and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has directed, assistant directed, devised, and produced shows for various companies and theatres, including LubDub Theatre Company, Union Hall, and Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City, Theatre J in Washington D.C., the Transmigration Festival for New Works in Cincinnati, and Švandovo Divadlo in Prague. She is also the founder and artistic director of New Relic Theatre, a production company that stages adaptations of classical plays and ancient texts. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Performance Studies and Anthropology from Georgetown University.
NEW RELIC THEATRE presents plays that honor the vividness of the human experience —ancient and modern, well-remembered and near-forgotten. NRT productions oppose false romanticism about the past and seek a more hopeful future. We adapt historical plays to unfold the ways the past still speaks to the present and commission new writing that views modern life with the intensity and scope of ancient drama.
