{"id":1135,"date":"2004-03-21T02:21:32","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T02:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/03\/21\/the_bright_river_a_mass-transit_tour_of_the_afterlife.html"},"modified":"2004-03-21T02:21:32","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T02:21:32","slug":"the_bright_river_a_mass-transit_tour_of_the_afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/03\/21\/the_bright_river_a_mass-transit_tour_of_the_afterlife.html","title":{"rendered":"the bright river: a mass-transit tour of the afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been way too long since i went to an underground performance art event.  If you live in the Bay Area, you need to go see <a href=\"http:\/\/epicarts.org\/brightriver\/\">the bright river: a mass-transit tour of the afterlife<\/a> next weekend.  It was absolutely stunning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/epicarts.org\/brightriver\/tim1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Imagine Shalom Alecheim and Raymond Chandler got together and decided to rewrite Dante&#8217;s Inferno, and you have the basic premise for The Bright River. A dizzying journey through a world spinning helplessly out of control, the show sends audiences on a mass-transit tour of the afterlife. Guided by a fixer named Quick, and moving through an urban landscape that is at once both intensely real and fantastic, the show is a cinema verite look at life and death in America.<\/p>\n<p>Trained as a traditional Jewish storyteller and oral historian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timbarsky.com\/\">Tim Barsky<\/a> has been getting increasing attention for his unique style of performance, which blends hip-hop, physical theatre and folklore. Tim is also the world&#8217;s first beatbox flutist, an aural prestidigitator capable of producing up to 8 rhythms and melodies at the same time. He is joined by the members of Everyday Theatre, a group of musicians drawn from the underground hip-hop and klezmer communities. Bassist and drummer Shree Shyam, cellist Jess Ivry, and beatboxer\/ vocal percussionist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidbeyond.com\/\">Andrew Chaikin<\/a> bring a diverse set of skills and traditions to bear. And physical theatre maestro Jeff Raz brings a wealth of tradition to the production in his role as directorial consultant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fantastic storytelling and the best beatbox artist i&#8217;ve seen.  Go out and support fantastic local art!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b>  This show has had extreme success and will be re-opening in the Bay Area from December 1, 2004-January 16, 2005.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicarts.org\/brightriver\/index.html\">Click here for more information.<\/a>  (Brought to you by too much Google juice.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been way too long since i went to an underground performance art event. If you live in the Bay Area, you need to go see the bright river: a mass-transit tour of the afterlife next weekend. It was absolutely stunning. Imagine Shalom Alecheim and Raymond Chandler got together and decided to rewrite Dante&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}