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HERE presents
Phenomenon
Friday, March 03, 2006 through Saturday, March 25, 2006
Mother Nature clashes with human nature at the foot of a very pregnant Mt. St. Helens.
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission(s): Unknown
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
The setting: Mount Saint Helens, May 17, 1980. Gaze into a clearing where dense pine trees give way to comfort-filled interiors. Nature lurks around the bounds of normal living, quietly escalating her menace, as time counts down.
On this day, a day that seems like any other day, a local waitress, busboy, journalist, geologist, and cowboy wake up in limbo at the foot of this bulging volcano. Their thoughts occupy the familiar shape of lives in the throes of the mundane. Marital conflicts, unrequited love, restless longing, and irresistible opportunity ricochet in the minds of those whose silent, natural neighbor, prepares for a 40-megaton explosion.
They were warned. The disaster was looming for months. The seismograph, as Rothman depicts it, patters away with
the fury of an inspired tap dancer. And yet, people trip over feelings that now can only be expressed through visual poetry, a videographic duet between a butterfly and a ballet dancer, a country western song, the weighty silence of falling out of love. And the explosion does come — in the story — and in the theater, posing the haunting question — are we really living life at the depth we were meant to — knowing, as we all do, that the end is simultaneously elusive and imminent? |
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