Have you ever been to a ballet and thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if Siegfried and von Rothbart could just talk out their problems instead of resorting to dance?”

Then you were probably happy to see one of several thousand posters for May I Please Speak?, a spoken-word ballet going on tonight and tomorrow in the Lerner Black Box. In addition to satiating your desire for genre-breaking works, for the meager price of $3 with your CUID, you get poetry, dance, and free hot cocoa. 

No word on whether the cocoa’s “free” if you don’t pay $3. At any rate, save the semantic debates for intermission — the show begins at 11 p.m, so hurry.