Rubberville
Rubberville
"White ghetto... Black magic."
A play with songs, book and lyrics by Chris Talbott
Directed by Chris Talbott and Ian Rosenberg
Starring Ari Vena, Mary Wigmore, Gioia Marchese and Sanjit Da Silva
Music by Phil Van Scotter
Access Theater, New York City
July 1999
Rubberville is a metaphysical exploration of a hard-knock Midwestern neighborhood circa 1982, the unlikely site of the secret and ominous birth of a modern-day prophetess. As burnout teens, lonely drunks, a ragged Vietnam vet and a raging single mother battle ghosts real and imagined, does this mysterious newcomer offer salvation, or is she the pied piper of the apocalypse? OVO's first full-length production unleashed a raucous theatrical feast of dance, satanic heavy metal, projections and puppetry onto the Off-Off Broadway scene.
