(dub)zeck

(performance installation, 2009)
 

Set in a post-future America where everyone speaks in a language only they can understand + are forced to communicate via the refuse of the past, a troupe of performers enact games of control and submission, re-mixing the 1974 kidnapping and brainwashing of heiress Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army with Buchner’s 19th century expressionist classic Woyzeck.  Performed in English, Spanish, French, German, and Polish.

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written + directed by Patrick Kennelly
co-direction and choreography by Kate Fox
sound: Aaron Drake
lighting: Matt Mellinger
video: Patrick Kennelly + Matt Mellinger
costumes: Andrae Gonzalo

Performers:
Gregory Barnett, Gia Battista, Marissa Casados, Radick Cembrzynski, Sonia Oleniak, Eliezer Ortiz, Jonathan Osborn, Paul Outlaw, Justin Streichman

Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, CA) - August 2009