Tag: partyforthepoorandbetrayed
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Journey to “Poliphilos’s Party”
The Island Says No Prologue: The Leftovers Once. They. Were. Gods! Now they lived on an abandoned island, because everybody who is somebody migrated to America. Indeed, in the mid-19th century, as the great steamships churned across the Atlantic carrying empires, fortunes, and the promise of a new dawn and gold, the major deities migrated…
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Poliphilos’s Party For The Poor And Betrayed
The story A hero seeking out a mentor finds Poliphilos in his chaotic forest rave—a mirror of the capitalist world’s absurdity—and the hero realizes that the only one he can truly rely on is himself. The philosophy Party for the Poor & Betrayed is a theatrical alternative dance track that transforms a surreal forest rave…
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Lyrics to “Poliphilos’s Party For The Poor & Betrayed”
<crickets & footsteps in the forest over dried up leaves>The Hero: Look for a mentor, they said. It’ll be easy, they said…<footsteps stop when the beat begins in the distance>The Hero: what..? What is that? Is that a…. bass drum?<Hero stumbles upon fairies who are teasing a lamb><fairy giggles>The Hero: What on earth is going…