Photo Credit: Sarah Beth Tew.
GABRIEL'S CORNER
Wednesday, May 27 at 9:15 PM
Friday, May 29 at 9:30 PM
Sunday, May 31 at 7:00 PM
Thursday, June 4 at 7:15 PM
Saturday, June 6 at 2:00 PM
Running time: 60 min.
It Might Be OK
Project Gobi
From Cincinnati, OH.
PREVIOUS FRINGES
iLove: (2007) - LoraBeth Barr and Casey Leach (performers)
Body Language: A RADICAL TRUTH (2008) - Julianna Bloodgood and Dione Hardin (performers)
Next to Not (2008) - Julianna Bloodgood (performer)
Anna the Slut and the (almost) Chosen One (2008) - Julianna Bloodgood (puppetry)
Britney Spears and All the Other Shit We Have to Deal With (2005) - Julianna Bloodgood (performer)
OTHER FESTIVALS
Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2007) - Juliana Bloodgood
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Is it our culture that defines our myths, or do our myths define our culture? Project Gobi is a group of young individuals hailing from every corner of our nation exploring the myth that is America. There are neither blue oxen nor Babe Ruth in these dreams, but all the lust, sorrow, and madness of modern myth. We nine are folk heroes of today, looking at this complex, terrifying, dark, hopeful, and beautiful nation that we have loved and cursed. Circling around the events that have shaped our youth, this story might just be your own.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
When a group of 12-17 year old Mongolian performing arts students left their sheep-herding village in the Gobi Desert for the first time to participate in a cultural festival in Middletown, OH, an email was sent out from a CCM Drama graduate in Mongolia to the net waves and within days a task force of actors was formed to create a "performance and culture exchange" between CCM and Mongolia.
We wanted to give these visiting students the same legacy of cultural song and dance that they were to impart on us. But how do we define America's cultural song and dance? We began asking each other those questions and in less than two weeks of collaboration, we created a piece that centered around our personal stories of American myth and the defining moments of our young lives.
The piece was set to end there, but it occurred to Project Gobi that we had stumbled across buried treasure. Our goal had been to share our stories with only a handful of peers, but we're not willing to stop there.
'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
The sky falls. Garbage. Minimalism. Original personal accounts. Storytelling through song and dance. Audience participation.