THE MeLTING BRiDgE features one of Phillips’ trademark uber-transformable sets combined with expert film technology that takes audiences on a wild ride from Mexico City to the Amazon Basin and up to the Bering Strait in a work that looks at our current climate crisis in relationship to the Mayan calendar, which prophesied a world apocalypse for the year 2012.

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This will mark the third work in Phillips’ Americas trilogy, which has given audiences a transnational creative perspective on the people of the Americas and how our cultures have combined and taken shape over generations.

¡El Conquistador!, created on location in Bogotá, Colombia, followed Polonio, a starry-eyed peasant-turned-doorman of the New World Building whose crazy and exotic residents were played by some of Latin America’s best-known TV stars (who appeared via video-phone system).

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Flamingo/Winnebago took audiences on a road trip through the American West. Stops included: Route 66, RV parks, Bombay Beach, and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.

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THE MeLTING BRiDgE features one of Phillips’ trademark uber-transformable sets combined with expert film technology that takes audiences on a wild ride from Mexico City to the Amazon Basin and up to the Bering Strait in a work that looks at our current climate crisis in relationship to the Mayan calendar, which prophesied a world apocalypse for the year 2012.

Thaddeus and his creative team presented a workshop production of THE MeLTING BRiDgE at the Buntport Theater in Denver, CO earlier this summer. Here are some production shots from the show:

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Thaddeus and Tatiana, his wife and chief collaborator, are currently in the Amazon continuing research for this production. Stay tuned to see how their trip went!