- NY Premiere
Written/Directed by: Prasad Paul Duffy
Music and Lyrics by: Theo Grace
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"REVOLUTIONARY" is a futuristic musical about young, homeless
musicians who become entangled in a revolution against fascism.
Written and directed by Prasad Paul Duffy, with music and lyrics by
Theo Grace, it is set in and around a graffiti filled apocalyptic
version of Washington Square Park. Theater for the New City's tenth
Dream Up Festival will present the piece's New York premiere run
September 9 to September 15.
The musical takes place in a near future where homelessness, drug
abuse and prostitution are running rampant, the government requires
citizens to have a computer chip planted in their arm, and those who
don’t are subject to arrest by Robo Cops. Gabriel is a talented
musician longing to live off the grid. After an encounter with a Robo
Cop who tickets him for playing guitar without a chip, Gabriel meets a
group of homeless people who have also been living without a chip.
Wolf is a former police officer before the invention of the Robo Cops.
Bethany is a meth-addicted sex worker under control of her abusive
pimp. Jedi is a runaway who has the most proficient street skills out
of everyone else. Maya is a drag queen psychic and mentor to Jedi.
After Maya is taken to a FEMA camp for speaking out to a Robo Cop,
Bethany brings the group to the Source Center, a sanctuary for the
homeless preparing for the revolution.
While there, they become entangled in an underground revolution to
help fight the encroaching fascism. As part of their indoctrination
into the movement, they undergo a series of trainings and initiations
that empower them to become spiritual rebels. They are guided by the
charismatic leaders of The Source Center, who help the homeless youth,
heal their addictions and activate them to Fifth Dimensional
Consciousness through meditation, therapy and Ayahuasca ceremony.
Their lives are forever changed and in their new found freedom, some
of them enter into romantic relationships with people they never have
thought they would. Together they all become the personification of
the evolution of revolution, as they shift into a new paradigm here on
Earth.
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Community Theater
Showtimes:
Thursday - September 5 - 6:30pm
Monday - September 9 - 9pm
Wednesday - September 11 - 6:30pm
Friday - September 13 - 9pm
Saturday - September 14 - 5pm
Sunday - September 15 - 8pm
Running time: Revolutionary is 95 Minutes $18.
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Prasad Paul Duffy is playwright, director, author and filmmaker A
graduate of NYU Film and Drama School in 1981, he wrote and directed
his first short film, "Me and Max," about a child’s first day at a new
school, which he sold to HBO. A few years later he wrote and directed
"St. Mark's Place" (1985), an immersive play about homeless people on
the Lower East Side. He has directed productions of "Bullpen" by
Dennis Watlington starring Gian Carlo Esposito and Wendell Pierce,
“When the Chickens Come Home to Roost," a play about Malcom X by
Laurence Holder, "Whores of Heaven," based on The Mandrake" by
Machiavelli, Paul Zindel’s "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" by Paul
Zindel and "Tea and Sympathy" by Robert Anderson. His other plays
inclyude "Joe's Paradise," a female-empowerment comedy about pole
dancers, and "The Alchemy Hour," a drama about a bisexual man who has
an affair with his girlfriend’s son. Duffy has also written a dozen
feature length screenplays. He wrote and directed the short films
"Desperate Hippies" (2005) a stoner comedy, and "Back from Iraq"
(2008), about a wounded soldier in a VA hospital. He wrote and
directed the TV pilot "Deprogrammed" (2016), a comedy about a rehab
for religious fanatics.
Composer Theo Grace is a Canadian born singer, songwriter, and
producer now living in Portland, OR. He is one-half of the musical duo
Entheo, whose performances include improvisation, ritual theater, and
comedic play with spiritual stereotypes. Grace is also a member of the
improvisational oracular music group Onedoorland.
Choreographer Leava Hall has worked with Prasad Paul Duffy in the
early 80’s, when she had a performance art company called Dance Hall.
She choreographed, directed and produced numerous shows between 1982
and 1992. She has directed music videos for MTV and worked with
playwright Israel Horovitz. She has taught at NYU Tisch, Coles Sports
Center and The Lee Strasburg Institute. At SAB and American Ballet,
she has trained young dancers with injuries and without. Many of her
students dance with the companies today. She also teaches Pilates.
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