![]() The nature of the players is left unspecified, whether Kick and Pano are archetypal figures on a timeless landscape, contemporary drifters, or whether it is all a dream of Kick, the artist. ![]() Kick and Pano are on a journey, pursued by Captain Rust, a kind of policeman. ![]() The piece will challenge the audience to consider notions of time as a cultural agreement. As the boy’s nightly contributions to the scene increase, things get out hand, as in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. They live in the realm of silent movement, but their thoughts and speech are sung by a chorus of two men and two women. But periodically, when Kick falls asleep, the boy, Pano will drop props into the cage-a Viking helmet, a cell phone-things that enable the couple, when next presented by Kick, to appear in different time periods, always enacting the same story of relationship and arrival at a place of dwelling. We first see them as primitives, arriving at a place where they might camp and live. They, the show within our show, are presented as a kind of diorama in a cage. A veiled cart is pulled through the street, and the curtains are drawn, revealing two dancers, a timeless couple- man and woman. The two perform a street act in the style of an old family circus. Loosely based on the writings and illuminations of William Blake, the piece tells the story of Kick, an older man who wanders the street spouting a prophecy-lingo, drawn from Blake’s writings, and his side-kick Pano, a 12-year-old boy who appears to be mute. The Vagabonds is a new music-theater work, created by composer/writer Andy Teirstein as part of the 2014-15 LABA workshop at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan.
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