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A Bumpy Flight on the Bird Machine (Bird Machine) Reviewed by Johnna Adams
June 19, 2009
Despite its charming and appealing design and puppetry work, Concrete Temple Theatre’s Bird...(full review)

Sympathy for Mass Suicide

(Le Mirage)
Reviewed By Johnna Adams
June 13, 2009

The Laboratory Theater’s entry into The Brick Theater’s Antidepressant Festival, Le Mirage, is a rich and rewarding exploration of the vicious extremities of faith and outlier thought systems where religion is nothing but a fatal intellectual virus.

Le Mirage dramatizes the story of an intricately ritualized, self-annihilating religious sect, The Order of the Solar Temple, using pre-existing theological tracts and dissonant choreography. The text of the hour-long performance piece is taken from lecture transcripts and texts published by this bizarre French Canadian extremist group.

The cult’s beliefs incorporated a confluence of the rituals of ancient esoteric secret societies (like the Knights of the Templar and the Rosicrucian society), Holy Grail legends and fervent ecological purification ideals. The end goal of this sinister theology was to persuade the cult members to purify themselves by transmitting their soul to the planet Jupiter via mass suicide and ritual murder.
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Bird Machine

Glimpses of the Moon

How Theater Failed America

In Conflict

Kaboom

Le Mirage

Our House

Pennybacker

School Night

TJ & Dave

The Atheist

The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot's Caucasian Mother and Her Other

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind

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