Thursday, Sept 13 ONLY: 8pm performance followed by Post-show discussion with Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival.
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“If you don't have a direction in life by the age of 27, you've got to wonder if maybe you're screwed.” Whit MacLaughlin, director of 27
"The group's multilayered projects are playfully absurdist critiques of society at large—magnetically visual . . . with an emphasis on being immersive to the point of submersion." A.D. Amorosi, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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It's dusk in a country with an invisible flag. The inhabitants party hard, celebrating their way too-early deaths. They are the champions of inconsistency. They are the zombie fuck-ups. They are 27.
Welcome to the afterlife. Where the laws of the universe are ignored. Where life is brilliant. Where victory means self-destruction in the most pleasurable way possible. And defeat means fading from view.
New Paradise Laboratories returns to its roots in this muscular live performance. 27 examines maturity as a kind of tribulation, a labor against the laws of the universe that endures into death.
All of it accompanied by the best music in the solar system.
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Conceived and Created by Whit MacLaughlin and New Paradise Laboratories Direction Whit MacLaughlin Scenic Design Matt Saunders Lighting Thom Weaver Costumes Tara Webb Sound Whit MacLaughlin and Alec MacLaughlin Original Music Alec MacLaughlin Performers Allison Caw, Julia Frey, Emilie Krause, Alec MacLaughlin, Kevin Meehan, Matteo Scammell
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New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) is an experimental performance ensemble, creating innovative projects in a variety of media. 27 debuts a new company of NPL performer-collaborators.
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27 has been supported by the Independence Foundation’s New Theatre Works Initiative, the Wyncote Foundation, and the Theatre Communications Group’s New Generations Program. 27 has also been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative.
