BETHLEHEM PROJECT
In October 2019, Agile Rascal participated in Touchstone Theatre Company's Festival Unbound.
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Festival Unbound was an opportunity for the community of Bethlehem, PA to commemorate the historic closing of their famous steel mill and an opportunity to envision a new future. It was also an opportunity for Agile Rascal to envision a new way to collide performing arts with cycling. Rather than bring the arts to our audiences on bicycles, we brought our audiences, on bikes, to the arts.
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Over a 2.5 mile ride, our participants were invited to
envision their landscape in a new way - one full of
history, possibility, and creative potential.
LISTEN TO JAREN FEELEY'S BRILLIANT SCORE
TO HUNT A WILD UTOPIA
Saddle up! Our Leader has prepared what is bound to be the most successful hunt for a wild utopia yet. They've found the best location (Bethlehem), procured the necessary equipment (horses) and gathered the best group of hunters they could find (you!)
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But as we head out on our hunt, the locals we encounter seem to have some very different ideas about the specific nature of utopia. Is it some fully-automated dream future or some anachronistic nostalgia trip? Soon the hunt isn't as clear-cut as they had hoped, and a certain Professor who studies delusional utopian pursuits has got a lot of new scholarly material.
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But maybe, if utopia is real, it's the approach to the hunt, not the impulse that's wrong. 'To Hunt a Wild Utopia' invites its participants to ask the big questions about what makes a utopia, and what's the point of hunting something so impossible, and yet, so irresistible?
CAST AND CREW
Jackie Rivera - The Leader
Sam Cordes - The Professor
Dara Silverman - The Horse
Kendrick Haunt - The Teenager, The Old
Woman, Fisher Person 1
Kean Haunt - The Dates, Sign Spinner 1,
FIsher Person 2
Jaren Feeley - The Lover, Sign Spinner 2,
The Busker
Lexy Ho-Tai - Horse Puppets, Props
Jaren Feeley - Composer
Kendrick Haunt - Costumes
Rose Schwietz - Stage Manager