Past Shows
Juan Gelion Dances for the Sun
" ...as riveting as anything now onstage in the region."
— Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"...highly original, insightful and entertaining... its infectious
spirit and fearless stands on difficult issues send a powerful message
to today's troubled world, and for that we should be grateful"
— Charles Brousse, Marin Independent Journal
" ...entertain(s) as it dives head-on into the recent debates
within the seemingly disparate realms of spirituality and politics"
— M.H.Shatara, American Theatre Magazine
Juan Gelion Dances for the Sun
by Dominic Orlando
directed by Rebecca Novick
played March 11 – April 8, 2006 at TJT
As a shadowy group of American power brokers meet to discuss how to
hasten the "end times," a young man named Juan Gelion returns
to a small Latin American island and begins to heal the sick. Juan
Gelion chronicles the adventures of a reluctant messiah, his peculiar
band of disciples, and the American evangelists who assemble to destroy
him.
Drawn from extensive research into the contemporary marriage of evangelical
Christianity and conservative politics, Juan Gelion is both
an indictment of the narrow-minded, Eurocentric brand of religion that
drives our current administration and a delicate and beautiful unfolding
of the journey we might take towards a different kind of faith.
Featuring: Laura Jane Bailey, Jesse Caldwell*, Alexandra
Creighton^, Paul Lancour^, Wendy Marinaccio, Johnny Moreno*, Hector
Osorio, Nick Sholley*, Juliet Tanner^
Set Design: James J. Fenton
Lighting Design: Heather Basarab^
Costume Design: Leah Marthinsen
Sound Design: Yvette Jackson
And With Live Music by Deborah Pardes
*Member Actors' Equity Association. Juan Gelion is
an Equity-approved project.
^Crowded Fire Company Member.