Young Directors Project
Temporary Distortion Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road)

In English with German surtitles

Duration of the performance: approx. 1 hour, no break

CREATIVE TEAM

Kenneth Collins, Text, Stage Direction, Design
William Cusick, Video
TaraFawn Marek, Costume Design, Lighting
John Sully, Music and Sound
Jon Weiss, Motion Graphics
Jamie Poskin, Video and Audio Technique

CAST

With Ben Beckley, Stacey Collins, Brian Greer, Lorraine Mattox, Jessica Grace Paga, Stephanie Silver

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Part road movie, part fractured memory, part love story… Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) is a hybrid of theater and cinema. During the performance, a constant stream of video is projected above the cast. In scenes of prolonged stillness, silence and impassivity, doppelgangers of the characters we meet onstage navigate a hyper-real cinematic landscape as if lost in a dream, creating parallel narratives that echo, reflect and refract each moment of the play.
Underplayed and restrained, the live performers’ softly spoken words tell the story of a man who is haunted by his past and drifting across America. This continual juxtaposition of stage and cinema is one of complement and contradiction, suggesting multiple ways of interpreting the dynamics between characters and the perpetually shifting narrative fragments.

PICTURE GALLERY