| 5:00 p.m. Arcosanti Tour: $10 |
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(suggested donation) |
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6:00 p.m. Dinner Buffet: $8.95 7:00 p.m. Performance:FREE For more information about Arcosanti, please contact:tel: (928) 632.7135 email: pr@arcosanti.org |
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For directions to Arcosanti, click here. For a downloadable poster, click here. |
| Saturday, March 14, 2009 |
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| Chicago-based theatre collective The Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials presents the world premiere performance of |
| Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment |
This collaboratively generated performance is inspired by the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the urban laboratory Arcosanti. This multi-media performance sets scientific experimentation, Congressional testimony, and old-fashioned magic tricks against the unique architectural backdrop of Arcosanti. Inspired by the discovery that The Tempest was among the literary texts discussed by scientists at Los Alamos, the performance investigates historical and fictional characters who retreated from civilization in order to re-imagine it, working in geographic isolation to create books and bombs with the potential to change the world. Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment focuses on two of these individuals: J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project, and Prospero, Shakespeare’s most famous magician. |
The Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials (LDSM) is: |
Seth Bockley, Jessica Hudson, Chloe Johnston, Ira S. Murfin, Kerensa Peterson, Angela Tillges, and Seth Zurer. The members of LDSM are performance, literary, and visual artists variously affiliated with a number of prominent Chicago theatre companies, including Redmoon Theater, 500 Clown, Collaboration, and the Neo-Futurists. LDSM grew out of another collaborative performance piece, Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment, produced by Walkabout Theatre Company at the Peter Jones Gallery in Chicago in 2007. Directed by Seth Bockley, the show featured three original performance pieces, each exploring a different American utopian society, woven together with text from Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. An accompanying art exhibition, curated by Redmoon Theater's Angela Tillges, featured an international roster of artists. Impossible Cities played to sold-out houses and was recommended by Chicago Public Radio, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Reader. |