Not Every Mountain March 30 – April 9

March 30 - April 9, Thursday through Sunday at 8pm
Tickets $10 - $25

Perverse Results, Episode 1: Not Every Mountain is a work-in-progress performance designed by Thomas Graves, with text written by Kirk Lynn, and original compositions by Peter Stopschinski.

This is one of Rude Mechs’ most beguiling performance ideas in a long time. Come get in on it early, while it’s still a work-in-progress and help us make it more better theatre.

So – it’s like this. We will gather to build a mountain using pulleys, cranks, magnets and string. We will shift your sense of scale again and again with simple magic – fly over the mountains, relax in the hidden valleys.

Come enjoy this one-of-a-kind experience with original soundscapes and music by Peter Stopschinski. A meditative litany by Kirk Lynn. Leave your cell phones on, let us borrow a few of them to light the mountains, to play bird songs and thunder as the rain comes through, to record the clouds.

If you want a play about characters: stay away, this is not that one.

If you want a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world, please be our guests.
Performances by Eva Claycomb, Pete Dahlberg, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, Jennifer Kidwell, Derek Kolluri, Kirk Lynn, Kelsey Oliver, and Panda Landa, with costume design by Aaron Flynn, lighting design by Brian H Scott, original music by Peter Stopschinski, and scenic design by Pete Dahlberg.

Not Every Mountain is the first episode in Perverse Results, our long-form experiment in episodic collaboration. Episode 2, Gragariart, by Lana Lesley & Peter Stopschinski, will be presented August 2017.

ABOUT PERVERSE RESULTS

The Content
Perverse Results is a new performance for the stage investigating unintended consequences – those outcomes that are not foreseen or expected when we undertake an action. We’re excited to focus specifically on the perverse results (outcomes which are diametrically opposed to our intentions) that we have on the various environments we inhabit or migrate through. We’ll be interrogating themes of displacement, containment, home, neighborhood, and agency in the inherited built environment.

The Process
Rather than congregating to make one cohesive piece over time, we are splitting up into smaller creation teams and building Perverse Results in episodes that will eventually be used to create one evening of theater, or we might destroy collaboration. We don’t know.

The next episode of Perverse Results, Episode 2, is Gregariart – a noise and music excavation of the Ikea catalogue by Peter Stopschinski and Lana Lesley. The first draft will be shared in August 2017.