Men on Boats

Show Description:

Rock and Roll Rapids and Handmade Nature - ten women on four boats craft a contemporary journey of John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition through the Grand Canyon.

“Marvelously destabilizing both as history and theater. The stalwartness and selfishness of the adventurers - their cockiness and cluelessness – become biting satire when sent up by women" (New York Magazine)

Using handmade theatricality - close-up imagery and sound of the vast Grand Canyon, creating the violence and peace of the Colorado River - the performers craft a devised journey into nature while exploring human greed, ignorance and beauty; physical theater that makes us laugh and think.