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POLICE IN THE WILDERNESS by Cameron Stuart
POLICE IN THE WILDERNESS by Cameron Stuart
Presented as part of the Exponential Festival (https://www.theexponentialfestival.org/)
Police in the Wilderness is a poetic narrative set in a future where burying or honoring the dead is illegal. Enforcers of these laws are agents of The Order, a cult that opposes symbols, language, and thinking. When an unmarked grave is discovered in the wilderness, a confrontation occurs between the local police and an old hermit. After a priest of The Order gets involved, a profane ritual unfolds with unforeseen consequences.
For the regular price of one ticket to the performance, audience members will receive a book with a copy of the play, a short essay, and a second version of the story. This new telling is in the form of an upcoming radio play: Police in the Wilderness 2, and includes all-new language throughout. Both stories form an extended meditation on the eschatological drive of human culture; linguistic and biological encounters with overlapping ecologies of wilderness; and the role of poetry in the convergence of these two paradigms.
Produced by Saints of an Unnamed Country
Written and Directed by Cameron Stuart
Assistant Director/Stage Management/House Management by Alex Aguirre
Nick Walther
Allison Anderegg
Cameron Stuart
and Stephanie Beattie
Set by Jen Plaskowitz
Projections by Stephanie Beattie
Animal Mask by Ilse Lansdale
Sword, Cup, and Coins by Shitty Bedford
Biodegradable glitter provided by BioGlitz/Rebecca Richards
All other design by cast
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THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL 2020
A PLEASURE, A MESS, A THRILL, AND A DREAM
Jan. 3 - Feb 3 at a variety of Brooklyn's most eclectic venues
Brooklyn, NYThe Exponential Festival is a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging, experimental performing artists, now in its fourth year. Performances will take place January 3 - February 3 in partnership with The Brick, Chez Bushwick, JACK, Target Margin Theater's The Doxsee, Loading Dock, Patch Works Theater, Para\\el, Honey's, and Vital Joint. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring, and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields to keep theatre kicking.
theexponentialfestival.org
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LocationPatch Works (View)
98 Moore St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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