Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 8:00pm – 12:00am

“The Unbroken Circle of Broken Things”

Trutheatertheater and Imaginary Co. present tales about the unbreakable spirit of love in the form of a 40 minute live performance entitled “The Unbroken Circle of Broken Things”. A mix of puppet theater and chaotic multi-media performance, with an 8 foot tall shadow screen, homemade lighting tricks, far out costumes and the story of Axon – the last woman on a small island who must decide whether to cut down the last living tree. She is a cold soul in a desperate land, but before she can strike her axe three spirits emerge from the tree to tell their tales with humor, song, magic, and an old trunk that may hold the key to another realm. Axon must decide whether these are false visions or if she can transcend time and space and leave her worries behind. Meanwhile, the stars bare witness and create the constellation of the axe to commemorate the story.

Trutheatertheater consists of four touring artists – Peter Glantz, Erin Rosenthal, Roby Newton and Leif Goldberg. These four fermented in Providence, Rhode Island as part of Fort Thunder, The Looney Bin, The Dirt Palace and other “ethereal ponds of passion”, the legends of which have become highly influential fodder for the imaginations of a successive generation of DayGlo art punks. Trutheatertheater has performed in places as varied as abandoned transportation buildings, the woods of northern Ontario, and as the featured performers at the RISD Museum’s celebrated show: Wunderground: Providence 1995- 2005.

Individually, members of Trutheatertheater have published their work in Picturebox, Inc, shown at the Whitney Museum, performed in theaters and rock clubs globally, and distributed on DVD by Load Records. Notable former projects include Forcefield (Art Collective), Urdog (band), Milemarker (band), Near Earth Object (puppet show), Califunya: The Most Beautiful Show That Ever Lived (live variety show with Becky Stark and Miranda July), and produced the Lightning Bolt Power of Salad DVD on Load Records.