Another Place
synopsis.
Influences for Another Place:
* Antony & The Johnsons
* Christopher Columbus
* Thomas Friedman
* Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
* NPR podcast “DIY Universe”
* Aldous Huxley
* Nixon & Krushchev “Kitchen Debates”
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Dan Phillips, a man from Texas who builds recycled houses.
We’ll also be collaborating with the band Break of Reality.
What if you could build your own universe and leave your troubles behind - would you do it?
Cassandra, a physicist with communication problems, sees the opportunity to literally create a new universe where she can start over, unencumbered by her own failings. Can Clover’s love and belief in the human capacity for change convince her otherwise? And what do Christopher Columbus, John D. Rockefeller and Rosie the Riveter have to do with it?
Another Place examines the precarious role of the individual in the age of climate change and asks: does science liberate or destroy us?
The Anthropologists will use its signature method of fusing source materials, original writing and
rigorous dramaturgy with expressive text and stylized movement to create this ensemble-devised play.