Exploding SUBurbia
Exploding SUBurbia
Somerset County Performing Arts H.S., New Jersey
Conceived and Directed by Andy Arden-Reese
“That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.”
Charles Bukowski
Ahhh… Being a teenager in the burbs.
Art vs. Life…
Dreams vs. Reality…
Us vs. Them…
Ambition vs. the Weightlessness of Being…
Based on Eric Bogosian’s text, suburbia, and interspersed with the texts of Charles Bukowski, Friedrich Nietzsche and original text by the company memebers, Exploding SUBurbia busts open teenage existence on the verge of the inexplicable uncertainty of adulthood. Riffing at high velocity, Theatre LILA’s Artistic Director Andy Arden Reese takes us on a joyride through the mire of teen angst in the 21st century. Who said breathing the American Dream is easy?
SUBURBANITES:
Elisa Baxter
Lauren Brown
Samantha Chalek
Caity Danovsky
Miles Garcia
Conor McGrath
Julia Siebert
Samantha Simone
William Torruella
Monique Wheeler
The “SCORE”
The FOOD COURT - For the Love of Pizza - Junk Food Junkies - Burger Manifesto, Part I - Jell-O - Burger Manifesto, Part 2 - Popcorn Idols - Playing for Peanuts - Parade Candy = Yogurt - Truth Serum
“O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!” (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1890)