{"id":7165,"date":"2022-04-18T19:42:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-theater-and-dance\/?page_id=7165"},"modified":"2024-07-29T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:00:55","slug":"thunderbodies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/events\/pastseasons\/thunderbodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbodies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thunderbodies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

View Program<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I wrote this play in the Spring of 2013, out of a need to process America\u2019s propensity for waging foreign wars and our collective culpability within an ever-growing climate crisis. Nearly ten years later, we\u2019re once again struggling to process the horrors of war, and our climate crisis has grown unbearably urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite those obvious similarities, our culture has also changed many times over, and at warp speed. I was writing during Obama\u2019s second term, when the dominant political mood for liberals was one of optimism and belief in progress. I wanted to
point to some harder truths about the violence, cultural dominance, and resource consumption underpinning our global leadership. I had grown up as a U.S. military kid in Germany, so I was particularly attuned to how long we\u2019d continuously been at war abroad\u2014and I knew that how other countries see us is not always so flattering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is serious stuff, but Thunderbodies is a zen paradox of a play: A wild, joyful carnival that embraces and celebrates messy, imperfect, out-of-control clown energy\u2014even as it ultimately critiques the real-world consequences of a country having too much power. I wrote it with a both\/and mindset, and I wrote it with love: Love for everything that\u2019s wrong with us. Love for our subconscious, lower body energies that so often get the best of us. Love for our vulnerable, uncontrollable embodiment… I was taking my first clown class when I wrote this play, while also recovering from major surgery on a broken foot. The characters in this play are stuck because they\u2019re at war with the world and with themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please embrace your own thunderbody, and enjoy the show.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kate Tarker, Playwright<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, April 8 at 7:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, April 9 at 7:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, April 10 at 2:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, April 14 at 7:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, April 16 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cast<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Lucy McNees ’25 (she\/her)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Grotilde<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoe Grigsby ’24 (she\/her)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Michail<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Louie Siegel ’24 (he\/him)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Boy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle ’22 (she\/her)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Girl<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kiran Arquin ’22 (he\/him)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

President #1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marisa Luft ’25 (they\/them)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

President #2<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talia Ostacher ’25 (she\/they)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

President #3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistic and Production Staff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Vladimir Rovinsky<\/td>Director<\/td><\/tr>
Patrick Coy Bjork ’23<\/td>Assistant Director<\/td><\/tr>
Thomas Barrett<\/td>Technical Director<\/td><\/tr>
Mina Kinukawa<\/td>Set Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Luka Fraase ’22<\/td>Assistant Set Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Jenny Li ’23<\/td>Assistant Set Desginer<\/td><\/tr>
Wu Chen Khoo<\/td>Lighting Designer<\/td><\/tr>
MaryBeth Gagner<\/td>Costume Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Meg Allen ’24<\/td>Assistant Costume Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Dan Dukich<\/td>Sound Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Lucas Martin ’24<\/td>Assistant Sound Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Jessica Chen ’25<\/td>Prop Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Miles Latham ’24<\/td>Assistant Prop Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Constance Brevell<\/td>Stage Manager<\/td><\/tr>
Birdie Keller ’25<\/td>Assistant Stage Manager<\/td><\/tr>
Laura Sullivan ’25<\/td>Assistant Stage Manager<\/td><\/tr>
Barbra Berlovitz<\/td>Voice Coach<\/td><\/tr>
Jessica Chen ’25<\/td>Poster Designer<\/td><\/tr>
Ariadne Smith ’25<\/td>Light Board Operator<\/td><\/tr>
Arthur Motoyama ’24<\/td>Sound Board Operator<\/td><\/tr>
Kyra Layman ’25<\/td>Backstage Crew<\/td><\/tr>
Thant Arkar Kyaw ’24<\/td>Backstage Crew<\/td><\/tr>
Emilia Garrido Vasquez ’23<\/td>Wardrobe<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thunderbodies View Program “I wrote this play in the Spring of 2013, out of a need to process America\u2019s propensity for waging foreign wars and our collective culpability within an ever-growing climate crisis. Nearly ten years later, we\u2019re once again struggling to process the horrors of war, and our climate crisis has grown unbearably urgent. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"parent":214,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9123,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7165\/revisions\/9123"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}