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POWDERBURN is an original play, currently in development, that follows one man from old world East to new world West to underground otherworld. The piece pits itself against themes of hyper-masculinism, violence, sport, and shifting immigrant identity. Text veers from prose to broken translations of Barrio Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic slang, Russian mat and other mother tongues. Physicality is confrontational, culled from sport and street-fights of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Drawing from a number of disparate social and societal influences, POWDERBURN presents a clusterfuck of culture clashes, deathmatches, and old-world machismo set against the corruption and pop of the début de siècle. Listen to POWDERBURN interview on NPR.
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