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"One of the best shows this year...fantastically inventive and strange."--New York
Highway to Tomorrow is a wildly warped funhouse mirror view of Euripides' classic The Bacchae, reimagined by Elevator Repair Service, young experimentalists from New York's Downtown performance scene.
ERS's slapstick scenario greatly amplifies the more absurd aspects of the Olympian pantheon and the mythology-driven plotlines of this cornerstone of Greek tragedy. Their Highway is set in St. Louis, instead of ancient Thebes, with Dionysus's godlike presence at times portrayed by a omniscient, bug-eyed puppet made from a chrome thermos bottle. There are Bacchanalian dances displaying ERS's hilarious "zombie aerobics" choreography, seers influenced as much by Cheech and Chong as by divine vision, and courtiers whose royal robes are fashioned from plastic to-go packs of soy sauce.
With Highway you'll take a ride on the weird side that will have you laughing at the gods' follies and ERS's irreverent smash-and-grab approach to the classics.
Season Support
Lead support for the Wexner Center's 2001-02 performing arts season is provided by AT&T and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Major season support provided by Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Additional season support provided by the Ohio Arts Council and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.
Event Support
The Wexner Center for the Arts is a member of the National Performance Network comprised of arts organizations located throughout the United States. The NPN and this presentation of Elevator Repair Service have been made possible with major funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Philip Morris Companies Inc., Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the British Council.
Highway to Tomorrow Elevator Repair Service
