"Let's Murder the Moonshine" is a collection of sintesi (trans: 'syntheses') -- short, stand-alone scenes intended to be treated as full-length dramatic works on their own -- written by various artists from the original Futurist movement. This student-directed production seeks to bring these sintesi and their fight into a modern context to ask us to question society, aesthetics, and theatrical conventions -- problems that still plague humanity and art to this day. Directed by Erik LaDue.
In 1910, the Italian Futurist movement began with its first manifesto written by Filippo Marinetti. Futurism was an artistic rebellion made against the rigid aesthetics its time and promoted a new view of the universe based on a primal obsession with the aesthetics of technology, Man's only measurement of progress. Although consisting of poets and painters, the movement's founders utilized performance as the catalyst for propagating their rebellion.
“Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.” – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto
November 4-5-6 (Friday-Sunday) and
November 10-11-12-13 (Thursday-Sunday)
curtain 7:00 pm (Sundays at 3:00 pm)
Doors open 30 minutes before curtain.
$12 general
$11 seniors and students w/ ID
UCSC undergrads eligible for 1 free ticket w/ valid UCSC ID
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