Theatre Arts Cosponsors Trip to Philly Fringe: Friday, Sept 11

Friday, September 11, 2015

Theatre Arts is co-sponsoring a trip to the Philadelphia Fringe World Premier production of Alias Ellis MacKenzie, by acclaimed company Lucidity Suitcase International.

Reduced-price tickets (available first come-first served to Penn community) are only $7. Contact Dr. Rose Malague at rmalague@sas.upenn.edu if you are interested in joining the trip. The group will meet on the Penn campus at 7pm and head to the Prince Theatre in Center City as a group.

 

From the Alias Ellis MacKenzie fringe website:

Go back to the 1980s with the infamous American drug runner Barry Seal, the Colombian drug lords, the CIA agents, and the fixers via the actors who play them on a modern day TV show. A theatrical adventure that exists between myth and history, reality and make-believe, get set for another mind-bending meld of stage design, action, and storytelling from director–performer Thaddeus Phillips. Journey through the “War on Drugs” by way of a television production soundstage—replete with the lighting, booms, cranes, cameras, sets, and props that seek to recreate the “reality” of the past.

ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE follows the potentially real adventures of the American pilot Barry Seal—drug runner, informant, and Iran-Contra Affair player— and his relationship with Colombian drug lords, nefarious co-pilots, clandestine runways, his family, the DEA, FBI, CIA, and three US presidents.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Directed and Conceived by Thaddeus Phillips Text by Tatiana Mallarino & Company Music Supervision DJ Mario Cotto Set Jeff Becker Performers Thaddeus Phillips, Juan Sebastian Calero, Victor Rodriguez, Diana Calderon, Ean Sheehy, Chris Davis, Ama Bollinger, Paloma Irizarry, Newton Buchanan, Mario Cotto