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Frontieres Sans Frontieres

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 4m

"Intelligent, unruly...there is much beauty in this abundance, and something deeply unsettling, too." - The New York Times

Frontieres Sans Frontieres

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

At the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their world is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade offering gifts of language, medicine, art and commerce. As the lure of development blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate threatening their long-held values, community and humanity. 

In a comic spectacle to challenge the pretense of altruism and civilization, Frontieres Sans Frontieres asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest? How to comprehend when the promise of language matures to the tyranny of words? Who wins and who loses in a War to hold on to the people and places we love? 

Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Physical Comedy
  • Duration 105 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol

Media

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Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

Phillip Howze

Phillip Howze is an American writer and theater maker whose works include Self Portraits (BRIC-Arts Media) and Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr). His plays have been developed or produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, New York Theate ...

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