NOW SHOWING!

Solo Play Workshop Sept. 6, 7, and 8, 2007
at 8PM
Sept. 9, 2007
at 5PM

TICKETS: $5.00 or Pay what you can

Performances at:

Diavolo Dance Theater
616 Moulton Street
Los Angeles, CA 90031

(downtown, in the
Brewery Arts Complex)

Felix Pire
in

 

 

 

 

a new solo play written by Guillermo Reyes

 

This new play brings together the L.A. Ovation and New York Outer Critics Circle Award winning team of Pire and Reyes in a brand new solo performance that travels three thousand years into the future! This elegant, sci-fi premised play, is laced with political satire, and laughingly points to our lack of human communication, technology notwithstanding.

Taking us on a "hologram" tour of sad human personalities of the "past" is a futuristic priest (using "Poor Theatre" techniques, along side modern day multi-media projections) who explains what humans "used to be like" before the compulsory ritual lobotomy you will receive...

The future is Orwellian, satyrically funny and deadly, as Reyes depicts it. The world is run by an authoritarian Big Brother-like dictatorship, headed off by the descendants of Elian Gonzalez (the Cuban boy at the center of the internationally newsmaking, heated custody and immigration battle in 2000 involving Cuba and United States).

A few world wars later, humanity has entered its inevitable cybernetic future, where you must participate in this theatrical experience as part of having your intuitive frontal lobe removed. Only through your ritual lobotomy will you reach a state of "Infantilism", a feeling of total childlike bliss (which doesn't require thinking), consecrated by the motto of the future: "Don't worry, be happy."

This solo work is now in development and currently receiving a reading/workshop production at the Diavolo Dance Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Stage Design & Choreography: Garrett Wolf
Creative Consultant (Acting/Directing): Debra DeLiso
Producer: Garrett Wolf
Artistic Director/Executive Producer: Jaques Heim