The Rapture Project at Here Arts Center

The Rapture Project, created and performed by Great Small Works, plays at Here Arts Center from 4 - 21 Jan 2007.

The Rapture Project: Brings together tabloid newspaper stories, popular literature about Armageddon, and fundamentalist iconography to create an epic spectacle following an unlikely cast of characters from the USA to The Middle East and beyond.

See the Creationist tour of the Grand Canyon and learn the history of the world through Bible-based science. Enter the world of Muslim squatter punks in Buffalo where young believers try to redefine Islam for the 21st century. Marvel as the spirit of Susan Sontag debates the Devil. Be awed as regular American citizens confront the growing power of fundamentalism over their lives and institutions. Wonder if The Rapture is upon us!

This seriocomic look at fundamentalism and current American culture is played out to absurdist limits by a cast of marionette puppets, live performers, and musicians.

The Rapture Project is performed by John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin and Jenny Romaine, with puppeteers Shane Baker, Andrea Lomanto and Jessica Lorence.

The show features original music composed and performed by saxophonist Jessica Lurie