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EL PARAISO: A HUMILIATION OF PLEASURES
a world premiere by Kirk Lynn,
directed by Shawn Sides,
created by Rude Mechs
| El Paraiso is an elegiac hoedown, a humiliation of pleasures and a tribute to Texas, Our Texas. James Dean has died and finds himself in a limbo that looks remarkably like a Texas whiskey bar where he lingers with three women who embody the Texas towns named for them – Marfa, Mercedes, and Lily Langtry – and the music of the spheres is replaced with some rousing original karaoke. A few drinks in, you might find yourself pondering whether you’ve been in paradise all along and just didn’t know it. If this sounds confusing, fret not desperado, Ludwig Wittgenstein explains it all with text and ideas from his posthumous opus, Philosophical Investigations! All this plus barroom brawls, too much whiskey, live music from Peter Stopschinski & Graham Reynolds and, of course, those mysterious Marfa lights. “When I die I may not go to heaven…I don't know if they let cowboys in…If they don't just let me go to Texas, Boy!…Texas is as close as I've been.” – from Tanya Tucker’s “Texas When I Die”. WHEN Thursday, April 25 - Saturday, May 26, 2002 El Paraiso was made possible by support from The Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund Scenic Design: Leilah Stewart FEATURING: Rene Alvarado Read what the critics had to say about EL PARAISO: Review by Robert Faires from the Austin Chronicle |
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Desire vs. Intellect in a Rodeo of Love El Paraiso Teaser #1 - JAMES DEAN
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