Sunday, September 12, 2010

Border towns

Nick's show, Border Towns was a fantastic mind bend and earful.  Anna calls it avant garde musical theater.  The show's description on the art space website reads:

"Border Towns explores how recordings have re-engineered the psychological landscape of the US, stitching together hundreds of recordings collected along the borders. Seven performers lipsync, sing, and move precisely with a dense map of strong fragments, ambient sounds, and border broadcasts. Along the way, musical Americana gets reconstructed into a surreal theatrical collage reflecting on recording, location, and culture."

My Cuban dinner beforehand was yummy.  A picadillo (beef hash) that contained raisins, olives and yucca.  The company, four friends from Wesleyan, one lovely significant other, and the composer/co-director, was warm and fuzzy with much "back-to-school" talk and mojito drinking (lime Jarritos for me :-)

 image pulled from web.

1 comment:

Julie_c said...

Sounds like a fun night!