Performed by Thaddeus Phillips, MICROWORLD(s) Part #2: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY is a visually playful large-scale theater work created using only recycled materials and found objects. It follows the story of Milo and his rubber duck, Fumio, who brave the Pacific Ocean in an epic journey to Brazil with the dream of starting a touring shadow puppet theater on the back of a bicycle. Lucidity Suitcase uses their signature ingenuity and boundless imagination to transform the entire stage into a global playground using shadows, green energy and visual poetry in this samba-infused spectacle about reinvention and the possibilities of the future.

The Painted Bride
February 25, 2010 08:00 pm
February 26, 2010 08:00 pm
February 27, 2010 08:00 pm

The SOLD OUT Hit of the 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival is making its WESTERN Premiere at TICKLOCK COMPANY'S REVOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL in January 2010 at the historic Kino theater on ROUTE 66. This epic work takes audiences on a road trip across the United States in a Winnebago with stops at gas stations, motels, truck stops, diners, Indian pueblos, Las Vegas, the Salton Sea and the middle of the California Desert. Odd, eccentric and classic ‘American’ characters such as cowboys, RV Park gypsies, and waitresses mix and mingle with the discombobulated voices of On Star Navigation, Airline Pilots, and droll rental car agents. This work is distinctly about the United States, and that is why we are very excited to be bringing it to Europe now, when people are starting to look at the USA in a new light.
DATES:
January 21 & 22, 2010

a theatrical/musical work about the whale songs, underwater fiber optic communications and the ocean. WHALE OPTICS will focus on the current, super-saturation of information and explore how this saturation may in fact be making us less, rather than more, connected as a culture. A mind-boggling array of information is now traveling across the oceans: our modern communications and the ancient whale songs. These contrasting signals may serve as a metaphor for the past and the future, and together they will help us raise the questions: does progress lie in the future or the past? What is the difference between information and communication? What should we be hearing from the whales? What should we hear from ourselves? WHALE OPTICS aims to call into question our perception of the sea, human/animal communication, and our relationship with the biggest part of planet earth - the ocean.

After the inventive solo adaptations of The Tempest (in a wading pool), the object puppet version of King Lear and a war toy adaptation of Henry V, Lucidity Suitcase will create its first ensemble developed work based on Shakespeare. Lucidity Suitcase’s ‘Dream’ will radically reinterpret the play while at the same time remaining faithful to the story and soul of the work. Thaddeus Phillips, who carved out his theatrical reputation adapting and visualizing Shakespeare, will design & direct this new work in close collaboration with a diverse cast, a choreographer and a composer. Rapid Eye Movement (R.E.M.) theory and the idea of ‘paradoxical’ sleep will be used to create a 120 minute long ‘vivid dream’ that present a world out-of-joint, a race through a treeless forest and rehearsals of a theatrical epic directed by
one P. Quince.

DATES:
sometime in the future