The Walk Across America for Mother Earth
Opening Night: January 20, 2011
Closing: January 30, 2011
Theater: La MaMa E.T.C.
Eighteen and eager to flee his suburban conservative upbringing, Taylor joined a group of political activists, ageing hippies, baby hippies, punks, anarchists, dykes, radical fairies, men, women, senior citizens, and children on a nine-month walk across the United States.
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January 20, 2011
What to wear when you’re about to chain yourself to a bowling alley to protest the nuclear arms race? Why, sequins, of course. Head to toe!
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January 20, 2011
If Priscilla Queen of the Desert (in which a gay trio embarks on a journey across Australia in a ramshackled bus) married South Park (an American sitcom featuring four crazy kids who end up in beyond bizarre adventures), they would give birth to The Walk Across America for Mother Earth by Taylor Mac.
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January 21, 2011
Hope and disillusionment go hand in hand in Taylor Mac’s The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, at La MaMa E.T.C.’s Ellen Stewart Theatre. A collaboration with downtown mainstay The Talking Band, Mac’s uneven new play is based on the writer-performer’s experiences as a teenager when he participated in a nine-month protest walk from New York to the Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
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January 20, 2011
Is failure simply success biding its time, or is it the other way around? This cliché gets twisted and turned in Taylor Mac’s newest play, "The Walk Across America for Mother Earth," created in collaboration with the Talking Band.
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January 21, 2011
The exuberantly talented Taylor Mac is not the sort of person who tends to get lost in a crowd. But that’s what happens for most of The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, staged in collaboration with the veteran avant guardians of the Talking Band. Mac’s desultory memory play is based on a 1992 protest march that he joined as a teenager: “To be born into a time of such apathy and destruction is a magnificent privilege,” he says at the start, eager to join outsiders with “the tools and the will to strive for beauty.”
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