O Monsters – are obsessed with their spectral father, the “Captain”, and are on a mission to uncover the details of his disappearance. Here are thoughts that haunted us as we created the piece: Sea squirts start life with a spinal column.They procreate, find suitable spots, and swim head down into the ocean bottom. They transform, consuming their own nervous systems, and become filter feeders, plant-like, never moving again. The destiny of the sea squirt is to lose mobility, agency, freedom. They seem to evolve backwards. - is the story of a haunting.The bizarre Kissimmee family – mother and triplets The human body is not just one thing. It’s a colony of symbiotic beings: bacteria, parasites, mitochondria (independent creatures that are now organelles inside cells), all crucial to sustaining human life. Our organs are bags of monsters hiding bags of monsters. Periodically, asteroids as big as aWalmart store buzz by, between the earth and the moon. If any collided with us, they would create havoc. So far this year, 33 such objects have passed near us, all misses.We barely noticed. - The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery – Francis Bacon (painter). -
-
NPL thinks of theatre as a “lens of perception”. We create curious alternative worlds in order to reflect on our own world.
Whit MacLaughlin
Whit MacLaughlin ( Artistic Director ). 24 NPL works in 22 years. OBIE, Pew Fellowship in Performance Art, NEA Fellowship, Barrymore. Featured at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. Ontological Theatre, PS 122, Walker “Out There” series, AndyWarhol Museum, Humana Festival of New American Plays. Recent: Gumshoe (immersion experience, Free Library of Philadelphia), and The Blue Hotel,Ankara,Turkey. Matt Saunders (Scenic Designer/Associate Artistic Director ) Arden, Headlong Dance, Pig Iron,Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington, Syracuse Stage,Wilma. Off-Broadway: Pipeline (Lincoln Center),Venus (Signature), Good Person of Szechwan (Public), Futurity (Soho Rep,Ars Nova). Hodder Fellow (Princeton); Pew Fellow;Assistant Professor of Design (Swarthmore). mattsaunders.net
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker