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BRIAN HASTERT
Nationality: USA
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Mission Drift Particularly in the Heartland Thousand Natural Shocks, AMission Drift
Mission Drift is a pioneering journey across the USA in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism, created in the blazing heat of a Las Vegas June. Told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and original music that fuses Las Vegas glitz with Western ballads and Southern blues, it features two interweaving love stories: the epic saga of an immortal teenage Dutch couple as they travel west from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam in 1624, all the way to modern-day financially devastated Las Vegas, and the intimate portrait of a cocktail waitress and a cowboy grappling with the 2008 recession and their crumbling American dreams. Over it all reigns Miss Atomic, a seductive storyteller/singer inspired by the 1950s beauty pageants celebrating the bombs tested in the Nevada desert. She is the symbol of creation and destruction, bankruptcy and bonanza, and this profoundly unique American city..
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created by Jessica Almasy, Frank Boyd, Jill Frutkin, Sarah Gancher, Amber Gray, Brian Hastert, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Ian Lasiter, Jake Margolin, Dave Polato, Kristen Sieh with Jake Heinrichs and Nick Vaughan; Music By: Heather Christian; lyrics by Heather Christian and The TEAM
1st Produced:
Ohio theatre
66 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012 04 Aug 2010
66 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012 04 Aug 2010
Organisations:
The TEAM, Almeida Theatre, PS 122 and Culturgest
1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>> 978-1783190256
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musical
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Top of PageParticularly in the Heartland
Visit a Kansas where parents vanish, aliens grow in cornfields, New Yorkers fall from the sky, and dead Kennedys stop by for Christmas dinner& Winner of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, shortlisted for the Edinburgh Best Writing Award 2006, awarded Best Production Dublin Fringe 2007, Particularly in the Heartland is a fantastical journey into the geographical center of the United States. The three Springer children are orphaned after what might be a tornado or an alien invasion or the Rapture itself. One by one three visitors arrive: an alien in possession of the body of a dead pregnant teenage girl, an East Coast business woman named Dorothy whose plane has crashed in the cornfields, and the ghost of 1968 democratic presidential hopeful and liberal icon Robert F. Kennedy. A year passes and a new American family is forged in eggs and flour, music and magic. Particularly in the Heartland is a play about losing sight of America and trying to fall back in love with it.
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created by Jessica Almasy, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Kristen Sieh with Stephanie Douglass, Jake Heinrichs, Chantal Pavageaux and Nick Vaughan
1st Produced:
Organisations:
The TEAM
1st Published:
in "Five Plays by the TEAM", Oberon Books (2015) >>> 978-1783191901
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Top of PageThousand Natural Shocks, A
A time-bending quartet inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world. The king is dead and Hamlet and Laertes are called home from their spoiled college lives to find Denmark in chaos - and Ophelia in a blonde wig working at the airport tourist bureau. Horatio records everything, all the while pushing Hamlet to be the leader his country needs. The four youths are rocketed back and forth through time and space: preparations for the king's funeral collide with boxing matches, crash into a wild-eyed Ophelia commanding a million Danish teens to drown themselves in Poland Spring while Laertes blossoms into an aspiring neocon. All the while Hamlet, paralyzed and ironic at the center, struggles to figure out how to take his place in history. Billy Joel wails We Didn't Start the Fire at the funeral in this rock concert deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet for Generation X.
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created by Jessica Almasy, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, and Rachel Chavkin with Jake Heinrichs, Stephanie Douglass and Matt Hubbs
1st Produced:
C Venue 34, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 03 Aug 2005
Organisations:
The TEAM
1st Published:
in "Five Plays by the TEAM", Oberon Books (2015) >>> 978-1783191901
Music:
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