Frontiéres Sans Frontiéres
By Phillip Howze
April 25- May 19, 2024
Spooky Action Theater
Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their world is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade, offering gifts of language, medicine, art, and commerce. As the lure of development blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate, threatening their long-held values, community, and humanity. In a comic spectacle to challenge the pretense of altruism and civilization, Frontieres Sans Frontieres asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest? How to comprehend when the promise of language matures to the tyranny of words? Who wins and who loses in a war to hold on to the people and places we love?
RENDERINGS
Creative Team
Director- Elizabeth Dinkova
Stage Manager- Fior Tat
Set Design- Nadir Bey
Lighting Design- Christian Henrriquez
Sound Design- Navi
Properties Design- Liz Long
Movement Director- Robert Bowen Smith
Dialect Coach- Yetunde Felix-Ukwu
Production Manager & Technical Director- Reed Simiele
Cast
Win- Anna Takayo
Noon/ Nobel Laureate- Surasree Das
Pan- Victor Salinas
Thom/ Laborer- Jamil Joseph
Backpacker/ Militia/ Baby Boo/ Assistant Guard- Camilo Linares
WHO/ Mime/ Actress- Lauren Davis
Clown/ Cigarette Man/ Developer- Frank Britton