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Back To The Bank With Patty Hearst
6:04PM ON
12/27/2009
BY
Beth Comery
Attention creative types. Submissions and applications are being accepted for participation in this really cool. . . thing.
‘System of Meaning’ (who brought you Pleasure Dome and The Music of Erich Zann in the Penal Colony) is looking for collaborators.
Sculptors, painters, architects, musicians, and actors are all welcome
to participate in The Passion of Patty Hearst, to be held in the Old Stone Bank, 86 North Main Street, to run February 4 thru 7.The Passion of Patty Hearst is an immersive, site-specific performance that re/deconstructs the life of Patricia Campbell Hearst, famed hostage-turned-terrorist whose notorious participation in the April 15, 1974 robbing of the Hibernia Bank of California riveted the nation. In a burst of automatic gunfire, Patty shatters our ideas of action and belief. In The Passion of Patty Hearst we stage the story as modern-day miracle play. By embodying Patricia hearst — newspaper heiress, socialite, hostage, bank robber, and cultural icon — across a range of actors’ bodies and through a variety of media, drawing on documentary, journalistic, operatic, and burlesque theatrical traditions, we aim to resurrect difficult questions about socio-political activism, stardom, and economic disparity that continue to haunt the civic architectures and social narratives of our nation today.
The bank building is 27,780 sq. feet of space waiting to be heisted. Rooms of many different sizes and descriptions are available. If you think you have a project that would be appropriate, please contact andrew_starner@brown.edu with a short description of your piece and
relevant previous work.
Well. Another one of these.
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