UTOPIAN FLOES

Written and Directed by Paul Kirby

UTOPIAN FLOES is set in a future space-zone in a time of planetary desecration, in a time of planetary fantasy where only a few members of the surviving Earthling species still exist. These Earthlings, all from different time periods on Earth--7500 BP to 3010 AD--were forced to flee their historical epochs, their Utopian Societies because of severe climate maelstroms that destroyed their civilized realms. They all found refugee on a Flying-Moon-Ship . This Ark-de-Space is traveling the solar system looking for another planet to safely inhabit. The Captain of the Flying-Ship is the Moon TRITON with her Musical Band of FictionLanders, who have equally escaped a planetary climatic catastrophe that made orbiting Neptune untenable for TRITON. Each of the Earthling characters on the Flying-Ship was on the very precipice of a life-threatening crisis when, somehow, they were cosmically & miraculously whisked aboard the Flying-Ship . They all have two things in common: they all are individuals who lived in a Utopian Society , albeit perhaps only fleetingly...secondly, they are all individuals who still dream of creating a Utopian Society . In UTOPIAN FLOES , in order to keep the desolation from destroying their dreams, each passenger continually creates feats of fantasy mythmaking performed in dance & aerial arts, music & song, poetry & fable, video animation & shadow puppetry. Each passenger slowly realizes that they must all share this voyage of the Flying -Ship with it's endangered resources, coveted spatial elements, and a few beguiling mysteries. Although primarily a visual/imagistic/movement show, the text/songs will encompass many languages: English, German, Spanish, Serbian, Inuit, Turkish, French, & Tritonish. UTOPIAN FLOES will celebrate the tenuous elements that can and do generate the bonds of diverse and ageless relationships that layer and celebrate our existence.

Some of the characters in UTOPIAN FLOES: Sophie, the widow of Archduke Ferdinand, who, in 1914, falls in love with her husband’s slayer, Gavrilo Princip, and together they ran off to join a Serbian traveling circus: Queanna, the last descendant of the poet Coleridge, who, in 2045, lives underground in Havana, after the Miami Cuban-elite mafia re-colonized Cuba, periodically performing her epic poem, “Rime of the Future Mariner”; Everard who, in 1650, sailed off to unknown lands chased by the Royal Navy after founding a colony in England based on the abolition of private ownership of land; Fira, a Nabataean performer in the theatre society of Arabia Petraea who, in 1193, fled the ransacking of her city by the Crusaders, and trekked to Jerusalem where she penned spicy novels, anonymously; Wetak, a genetically adapted amphibious being, who fled her Melanesian Atoll in 1957 after it was blown up by a nuclear bomb experiment, and ended up in a Carnival of Curiosities in Istanbul: Gaabae, a French Chanteuse, who in 2009, is the Director of the Holocaust Theme Park in Tehran... a replicated post-nuclear-annihilation environmental experience of a former republic in North America; Ietro, a vaporous creature from the moon Triton of the planet Neptune, who, in 3010AD, was forced to flee the latest and greatest cycle of global moon warming on Triton and ends up space-wrecked in the Aral Sea; Ungava, an Inuvialut elder, circa 3010BC, who is forced to the open waters with her totemic shamans, riding the last permafrost ice floe, in search of a sustainable horizon; Platon, a rogue video game maker from Montreal, Canada in 2007.