ANATOMICA: A Comedy About Meat, Bones, & The Skin You’re In (Asheville)
Darkly funny, occasionally unsettling fringe-style performance riffing on skeletal systems, meat, bones, and the everyday horror of inhabiting a human body. Late-night laughs with an experimental, slightly macabre vibe.
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