THE EARTH'S SHARP EDGE
In July of 2002, Thaddeus Phillips and Muni Kulasinghe traveled to Morocco on an Independence Fellowship to study Arabic and develop material for a new theatre piece. Upon returning to the US with no good idea for a new theatre piece, Phillips was detained at Newark "Liberty" Airport for having Arabic writing in his journal along with mysterious drawings. These drawings were in fact design ideas for the new work but it wasn't until the 2-hour interrogation was over that the spark for the show came.
THE EARTH'S SHARP EDGE is a play set in it's own country which the audience must enter with passports to see. The last one to enter the space is Phillips himself who is stopped and questioned. Thus enfolds the story of a theatre artist alone in a hotel in Casablanca trying to make a play about his travels, the femme-fatal hijacker from the 1960's Leila Khaled and the history of airline security.
> Designed & Directed by Thaddeus Phillips
> Created by Muni Kulasinghe & Thaddeus Phillips and most recently in collaboration with Jeb Kreager, Emmanulle Delpech-Ramey, Tatiana Mallarino & James Sugg.
THE EARTH'S SHARP EDGE is a play set in it's own country which the audience must enter with passports to see. The last one to enter the space is Phillips himself who is stopped and questioned. Thus enfolds the story of a theatre artist alone in a hotel in Casablanca trying to make a play about his travels, the femme-fatal hijacker from the 1960's Leila Khaled and the history of airline security.
> Designed & Directed by Thaddeus Phillips
> Created by Muni Kulasinghe & Thaddeus Phillips and most recently in collaboration with Jeb Kreager, Emmanulle Delpech-Ramey, Tatiana Mallarino & James Sugg.
