bobrauschenbergamerica

by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Eleni Papaleonardos

September 5 – 21, 2013
@ Riffe Center Studio Two
77 South High St.
Columbus, Ohio 43215

Running Time: Ninety minutes, no intermission.

Talkbacks: After Thursday and Friday performances.A limited number of Pay What You Want tickets will be available at the door.

Production Manager: Dave Wallingford
Stage Manager: Jaylene Henderson
Music Director: Pam Welsh-Huggins
Asst. Stage Manager: Ben Jones
Costume Designer: Kat Barnes
Lighting Designer: Jarod Wilson
Sound Designer: Dave Wallingford
Choreographer: Acacia Duncan
Projection Designer: Matt Slaybaugh
Carpenters: Joe Wolfle, Greg Latham, and Jon Baggs

Featuring: Ian Short, Elena M. Perantoni, Drew Eberly, Keith Lamar Nolan, Ben Sostrum, Acacia Leigh Duncan, Adam Humphrey, Pam Decker, Amy Rittberger, Weston Oberg

ABOUT THIS PLAY

"All give sublime performances... Their energy just astounds... a wondrous ride... a visual masterpiece..."

– Lisa Much, Columbus Underground

"Available Light’s production is a must-see."

– Jay Weitz, Columbus Alive

"Charles Mee’s weirdly compelling bobrauschenberg-america finds a perfect match in Available Light's precise and energetic production... which combines unlikely elements with results that can be comic or disturbing, but are always fascinating."

– Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch

From the most influential playwright of the 21st century and the creator behind Available Light's beloved [Stop Sign language] and God's Ear comes a wild road trip through our American landscape.

bobrauschenbergamerica is a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. Traveling easily through time, the play's kaleidoscopic images take us from Rauschenberg's childhood home to a New York café to the open road.

A collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.