STERIJINO POZORJE FESTIVAL 2009 – Novi Sad, Serbia
Lucidity Suitcase, Philadelphia, USA
FLAMINGO / WINNEBAGO
Directed & Designed by Thaddeus Phillips
In January 2007, the Lucidity Suitcase hit the road to gather materials for a new theater work about Peak Oil, old gas stations and our future. Using hand drawn maps, they travelled along the forgotten and buried parts of Route 66 collecting artifacts, images & stories. A side trip to Las Vegas allowed Thaddeus Phillips to research the grandfather he never knew, Abe Schiller, who was an icon of the Flamingo Hotel. Thex also found a great Gypsy Jazz band in Albuquerque in a bar on Route 66, called Le Chat Lunatique.
Flamingo/Winnebago follows the story of Ageet Pradesh who travels in a Winnebago RV (Caravan) acroos the US fitted to run on fryer grease and a young man in search of his grandfather in Las Vegas. The show explores the planet’s tipping point: peak oil theory and US’s excessive use of energy, car culture, OnStar navigation, and old gas stations, motels and diners. Road-side attractions include: New Mexican pueblos, the Wigwam Motel, Route 66, RV parks, the Las Vegas Monorail and Korean Karaoke.
The LUCIDITY SUITCASE Intercontinental is a theater creation team made up of artists from Colorado, Colombia, Iowa, New Mexico, New York & Bulgaria that with ‘rough’ media, documentary footage, improvisation and research to create theaterical epics and windows into not-often seen worlds.