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Live Arts - Food Court by Back to Back Theatre with The Necks

Presented by Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts - Perelman Theater

September 20-September 22, 2012

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Part concert, part theater show, FOOD COURT follows a near-death experience in a suburban mall by the Asian Hut and the Juice Bar. Played out in a psychological space constructed from light and sound, the stage transforms a mundane seating area into a shadowy void, where the edges between floor, walls, and ceiling become indistinguishable. This majestic canvas then moves its performers into a forest, a place of nightmares where the moral and ethical framework keeping our fragile civil existence together no longer exists.

FOOD COURT features the remarkable vision of Australia’s Back to Back Theatre and the live music of The Necks, who create a new score for each performance. FOOD COURT is a hypnotic work of art that cannot help but unsettle its audience, who must confront the strange dynamics of power, its allure for all, and its consequences in forms of vulnerability, oppression, guilt, nakedness, human disempowerment, and violence.

In short: between beauty and violence, seeing and not seeing, chaos and control, and the abled and disabled body.

You're invited to join us for these additional FOOD COURT events!

Performance workshop with Back to Back Theatre

Sept 22 at 2pm
Back to Back Theatre explores the ideas and concerns of company members and uses devised and improvisational methods to create their shows. Discover their unique method of creating work in this interactive discussion and workshop. Interested participants should email tara@livearts-fringe. org. Selected participants will be notified by September 15.

Pre-show discussion with psychologist and author Dr. Dan Gottlieb, host, WHYY’s “Voices in the Family” Back to Back Theatre’s Artistic Vision
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
300 South Broad Street
Wheelchair accessible
Free / 30 minutes
Sept 22 at 7pm
Back to Back Theatre creates innovative theater with people who are perceived to have a disability. It has gone on to become one of Australia’s leading creative voices, focusing on moral, philosophical, and political questions about the value of individual lives. Advanced reservations encouraged, email tara@livearts-fringe.org