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| OUT OF AREA It's all about space and me Richmond, VA / USA October 9.-11. 2003 Firehouse Theatre, Richmond In cooperation with The Firehouse Theatre Richmond/VA USA. Out of Area is sponsored by OUROBOROS at Antique Village on US 301 |
Cast Miriam Fiordeponti - The Nurse Bridget Gethins - The Mother Marigia Maggipinto - The Moving Woman Niels Bormann - The P.I. Isaac Moses Regelson - The Boy and Beatrice Bush - Speaker (on screen) Clifton Frei & Ryan Jones – Lights John Reinhold – Assistant Dirk Cieslak – Director In Kind Contributors: Boy Scouts of America - Dogwood Dell (City of Richmond) - Main Stage Productions - Moore Street Baptist Church - Temple Beth-El - Urban Lightworks and Ernie McClintock †. Special Thanks To: Sandeep Ahuja, Joerg Bittner, Mary Sue Carroll, Diane Entzminger, Sylvain Flannigan, Ami Gamon, Carl Hayslett, Patricia David King, Harry Kollatz & Amie Oliver, Rev. Alonza Lawrence, Greig Leach, Austin Leach, Damon Silvers & Alisa McBride, Grady Smith, Todd Schall-Vess |
| The idea of MUTATION - to work on the topic of globalization by globalizing our selves and our praxis of producing theater did his first successful step to become real with the premiere of Out of Area in Richmond’s Firehouse Theatre. While "The P.I." prepares his nipples for the next dance and "The Boy" get kicked out of the center of the universe the show stops suddenly and we have a situation. A serious one... but thanks God there is black plastic tarp all over the place underneath that saves all of us finally. |
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| Panic - The moving woman is happy now,
she owns a huge garden with huge beautyful trees. „It’s
all mine“ she says. She has got a rich husband. One day she took
over long yellow gloves and tight green rubberboots. Then she starts
to collect the dead leaves from the ground like here neigbours do.
When she discoveres that beneath the leaves and benave the trees under
the whole land-scape up to the horizon is a endless layer of black
tarp covering the soil, panic overwhelmes her. |
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| Order - When boys are driven crazy,
which happens frequently because they are boys, there is only one who
has the authority to bring back order, mother with her command: „Go
to your room“. Since Mother failed herentrance examination for
the FBI,she makes her money as asecurity officer in the local baseballstadium.
She tends theelevator, which leads to the VIP lounge, she
keeps the VIPs safe. A good job asshe always gets somedelicacies
from the wonderful buffet inside,passed on by some of the VIPs, with
thewords: „Thank you Harper, you do a great job“. |
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| Safty and Innocence - Safety and Innocence
-The floor is all wet. With serious concern about the possible danger,
the boy warns the public,."Please be careful". "It’s
all wet now! Careful!". Hedoesn't want to become liableif
somebodyslips on the floor and breaks a bone. Space has to be safe.
His concern isreally isn'tabout people gettinghurt andsuffering,
for the boy, that is just another good opportunity for making a bad
joke. His deep concern is aboutavoiding a situation where he might get
blamed for what happens. He wants to be innocent. |
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| Rage - We do not want to go into details with what happened
to him. The P.I. got humiliated like never before in his life. His
whole stomach region is heated and there is a tornado in there. He
saw orange and yellow colors everywhere, his ears are somehow numb
when he smashed the door, entering that apartment, entering the room,
he got a stroke of 240 volt, then strangulation, banging the head on
the floor, the wall and the flat screen television, slaughtering the
bed with a knife, setting the kitchen on fire, flooding the bath room,
kicking, opening the gas stove. When he left, he took his good black
shoes he had left with him away. |
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| Happiness - The Nurse gets unspeakable happy sometimes.
She can not find a word to express her happyness. She do not know why
she gets happy. Happyness is overwelming her suddenly and she god driven
by her happyness until she got exhausted. You better not try to stop
her. |
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| Fear and Nature - The mother lost the beloved little
white elephant, the magic reminder of her pink childhood. Now she lives
in a permanent state of fear that nature strikes back from above while
the nurse suffers with all the millions of creatures who struggle to
survive under the black tarp which covers the soil everywere. |
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| Desire - The moving
woman let grow her tis for the happyness
of the man. She developed her own technique to let them grow instantly
in front of man. „You love it?“ Yes, they do and even the
man can see it is obvious all fake, they get horney again and again,
each time she does her trick. Success can be so simple. |
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| Punishment and Relief - After the
P.I. was touching the boy he got a well-deserved punishment. His hands went
dead. But soon a beautyfull woman brought back life into his hands. |
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| Identity - “Do you think I look like the young
john malkovic? Hm?? Do you think I look like Vincent Van Gogh? You
know, the sunflowers look, my profile! I am a special sergeant in a
Swiss hospital. I am witty and sexy. I am funny! I am a very important
person VIP customer. I am so upset with their service that I scream
at the service person: I am a pop star/ I am a businessman!!! I am
a philosophy student, who doesn’t believe in working or thinking.
I am this crazy party person…” |
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Following some voices on the performances.