The Rapture Project - a political puppet show by Great Small Works

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You are cordially invited to Great Small Works' newest prodution, THE RAPTURE
PROJECT, a serio-comic look at fundamentalism in current American culture
and politics:

HERE ARTS CENTER 145 Sixth Ave (btwn Spring and Broome) box office 212 352 3101
JANUARY 4 - 21
Thurs - Sat at 7pm
Special Late Show Sat at 10:30 pm *pay what you can night with cash at the door
Sunday at 2pm

We created this show for you: people who take special notice and express outrage and resistance at the growing fundamentalist influence on our government and our lives. Great Small Works productions seek to renew, cultivate and
strengthen the spirits of their audiences, promoting theater as a model for participating in democracy.

With this show we hope to give you a lift and a laugh as well as to engage these issues in a new arena, the stage, where a colorful cast of puppets, performers, and musicians play out fundamentalism to its absurdist limits.

Alternately ridiculous and terrifying, The Rapture Project brings together tabloid stories from the daily news, in-depth accounts of current American synergies of religion and politics, the popular literature of The End Times, nineteenth-century Sicilian puppet theater, 1920s fundamentalist iconography, design inspirations from the sixties
psychedelic troupe the Cockettes, and original music by composer and saxophonist Jessica Lurie, in an epic spectacle following an unlikely cast of characters from the USA to the Plains
of Megido.

*See the Creationist tour of the Grand Canyon!

*Enter the world of Muslim squatter punks in Buffalo!

*Hear the tortured rants of an Iraq War profiteer!

*Watch culture clash in the studios of Al-Jazeera!

*Tremble as the Antichrist walks in Brooklyn!

*Wonder if the Rapture and the Second Coming are upon us!

Join Us!!!!
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Sponsors:
Great Small Works

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