.....CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT....
Currently in Development
THE ANTI-POLITICAL SHOW; or Money's Not as Real as the Dollar Sign
Buran Theatre will explore the current temperature of political unrest in America with their trademark subversive style, creating a piece of performance that investigates the fallacies that compose our baselines of reality, chiefly, money. The work will be written and created by the company.
Represented on the stage may be some of the following images/ideas: fire works, manic laughter, dancing in fear, forgetting and remembering and the delightful irony of our daily march to death, an undressing of the statue of liberty, nightmare induced countdowns to debt ceilings, Buckminster Fuller's elitist utopia, immigrants on the moon, a covert genocide on American soil that occurs silently, and options for alternatives presented by the company to the audience.
The inspiration for this piece was arrived at via the notion that we have a responsibility as artists to expand beyond the aesthetic to the necessary.
FRANKY BOY is a contemporary adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and the myriad of source material swirling around the text. Buran Company will devise from these source materials which will include, but not be limited to, the works of Mary Shelley and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, the paintings of Henry Fuseli, the music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the philosophical inquiries of Edmund Burke, the postmodern texts of Jean Baudrillard, the futurist writers Buckminster Fuller and Ray Kurzweil, and the 2008 Buran production, NIGHTMARES. The company will deconstruct and dissect these “texts”, whether they be textual, visual or aural, and draw links to pop culture and current hot topics, specifically scientific and technological advancements, for example, Kurzweil's proposition of The Singularity - when technology and biology fuse.
The philosophical notions of the sublime will be thoroughly investigated in our development and will compose the frame for our attack on Frankenstein. The Swiss Alps, par exemplar, were often sighted by Enlightenment writers as the prime example of the sublime, which is most often understood as the greatness in aesthetics that reaches an unbounded amount of fervor, resulting in feelings of excess and horror.
We imagine the tits of these mountains will be featured heavily.
Some questions that will be investigated: What if our quest for scientific advancement creates the monsters of our future? As we expand technology are we getting more and more disconnected from what really makes us human? Is there a Frankenstein that is most appropriate to present to a contemporary audience? Or is a modern Frankenstein a collective nightmare?
