Fresh off a Southeast Alaska tour, tri-coastal ensemble Strange Attractor examines the museum security guard, shedding light on the invisible American worker by playfully questioning the endless cycle of mindless work and revealing what actually happens when people pass the time while on the clock.
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Strange Attractor Theatre examines the museum security guard, shedding light on the invisible American worker by playfully questioning the endless cycle of mindless work and revealing what actually happens when people pass the time while on the clock. The large drama that comes from small events, co workers as simultaneous adversaries and allies, and the tiny pointless rituals performed all day become fodder for a theatrical universe built on hierarchy, games, and being at the mercy of the time card. Conceived and led by company member Jed Hancock-Brainerd, who spent two years working as a museum guard, the Lecoq-trained company brings their character-driven, highly physical, and outlandishly absurd style to this piece about jobs versus careers and how you get through the day when you got nothing but time.
Strange Attractor is Aram Alan Aghazarian, Roblin Gray Davis, Jed Hancock-Brainerd, and Rebecca Noon. We create inviting and unexpected performances that challenge the popular conception of live theatre while engaging new audiences with original, high-caliber, physically devised work. Living in three distinct communities, we seek to build theatre equally with, for, and in those three communities rather than belonging to only one: Providence, Philadelphia, and Juneau. Our geographic differences strengthen the innovation of the work we make, our ties to the places in which we live and work, and the reach of devised theatre.
Our physically-based performance style, the diverse universes we explore, and the hilarious characters we discover, unnerve while entertaining and confound while delighting.
Since forming in 2010 Strange Attractor has created five full-length shows, 2010’s F.orward O.perating B.ase: a hilarious quick change show about war and torture created and performed in Juneau for Perseverance Theatre; 2010’s Special Happy: an absurdist birthday party thrown for the audience every night complete with an appearance by an actual pizza delivery man created and performed in Providence for Perishable Theatre; 2011’s If You Shoot A Boot, You Might Get Wet: a peek into a couple riding out a post-apocalyptic world in their 9’ tall house made out of suitcases, created and performed in Providence as a co-production with Spanish company City of the Moon; 2012’s A Terrific Fire: a theatrical fever dream that is part haunted house, part adventure novel and based on Ibsen’s obscure play Brand, developed and performed in Juneau with Perseverance Theatre and in Providence with Perishable Theatre and 95 Empire; and Enlightenment on E Floor North, which was created throughout 2013 with development periods in Pawtucket, RI, Portland, ME, Philadelphia, PA, Sitka, AK, Juneau, AK, Tenakee Springs, AK, Haines, AK and is premiering at the 2013 Philly Fringe Festival. This summer our work will also be featured in the RISD Museum’s show, Locally Made.
Video Preview of Enlightenment on E North
