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UNREST was originally developed in the Summer of 2012 with the following core Ochlos artists:
Lanie Weiland Carol Ellis Andrea Hart Melanie Schauwecker. It had a fuller production in 2014 with the following production team: Directors: Carol Ellis Andrea L. Hart Ochlos Artistic Director: Carol Ellis Script Supervisor: Andrea L. Hart Actors: Rosella Bearden, Andrea L. Hart, Heidi Carlsen, Sarah Passemar, Honora Russell, Carol Ellis, Michael Ellis and Gary Cassera |
DIRECTORS’ NOTES:
When we started working on this project in 2012, we never guessed that, two years later, the subject matter would still be so profoundly relevant. Our initial investigation was sparked by Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and the Pussy Riot trials. We wanted to explore the power struggles that we witnessed around the world, as well as those here in the United States; how a ruler loses power and the people gain it. As the events around the world progressed, so did this project, and so did our interest in what it takes for a person to make change in their life. It is our hope that this piece allows us to engage in a conversation with you, our audience, around these issues. We believe that meaningful change begins by participating in a community conversation and that theatre is, by its very essence, a form of community.
--Andrea and Carol
This is a devised piece, which means we walked into a room with nothing and after two years of research and conversation we have this performance. Below is a list of all the voices represented in the script.
Andrea L. Hart, Carol Ellis, Lanie Weiland, Melanie Schauwecker, Rosella Bearden, Sarah Passemar, Honora Russell, Heidi Carlsen, Jim Rhodes (Ohio Governor), Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mary Oliver, Adolf Hitler, George Bush, Howard Zinn, Langston Hughes, Mark Twain, Eugene Ionesco, Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, Charles Bowden, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Bashar Al Assad, Abdallah Ja’far al-Ojami, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Un, Kim Il-Sung, Joseph Stalin, Jiang Jielian, Earl Green, Habib Jalib, Carlo Guiliani, Rachael Corrie, Azizah Othman, Allison Kraus, Norpa Yonten, Ahmad, Sergei Nigoyan, Wiggi Bakela, Euripedes, Relatives of the disappeared in Peru, Survivors of the Bosnian genocide, Survivors of the Armenian genocide, Emily Dickinson, Rumi
When we started working on this project in 2012, we never guessed that, two years later, the subject matter would still be so profoundly relevant. Our initial investigation was sparked by Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and the Pussy Riot trials. We wanted to explore the power struggles that we witnessed around the world, as well as those here in the United States; how a ruler loses power and the people gain it. As the events around the world progressed, so did this project, and so did our interest in what it takes for a person to make change in their life. It is our hope that this piece allows us to engage in a conversation with you, our audience, around these issues. We believe that meaningful change begins by participating in a community conversation and that theatre is, by its very essence, a form of community.
--Andrea and Carol
This is a devised piece, which means we walked into a room with nothing and after two years of research and conversation we have this performance. Below is a list of all the voices represented in the script.
Andrea L. Hart, Carol Ellis, Lanie Weiland, Melanie Schauwecker, Rosella Bearden, Sarah Passemar, Honora Russell, Heidi Carlsen, Jim Rhodes (Ohio Governor), Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Mary Oliver, Adolf Hitler, George Bush, Howard Zinn, Langston Hughes, Mark Twain, Eugene Ionesco, Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, Charles Bowden, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Bashar Al Assad, Abdallah Ja’far al-Ojami, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Un, Kim Il-Sung, Joseph Stalin, Jiang Jielian, Earl Green, Habib Jalib, Carlo Guiliani, Rachael Corrie, Azizah Othman, Allison Kraus, Norpa Yonten, Ahmad, Sergei Nigoyan, Wiggi Bakela, Euripedes, Relatives of the disappeared in Peru, Survivors of the Bosnian genocide, Survivors of the Armenian genocide, Emily Dickinson, Rumi