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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

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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?

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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   

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Dara Silverman - Writer and Director

Lexy Ho-Tai - Horse Puppets, Props

Jaren Feeley - Composer

Kendrick Haunt - Costumes

Rose Schwietz - Stage Manager

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