Our project will combine elements of an old-time populist political rally, a post-rock opera, and a freaky cult ritual. The heart of the Roadshow will be the onstage performance, a mind-expanding entertainment designed to delight. By placing great music and songs within a provocative storytelling framework, the performance will draw the audience into the liminal world of the playa. While communicating the core concepts of self-reliance, gifting, and radical inclusion, the performance will also be funny, bawdy, and disruptive.

Alongside the performance, the offstage experience of the Roadshow will envelop visitors into a host of authentic interactions with a small confederacy of other thought-provoking groups and individuals, such as Burners Without Borders, the Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF), artbus creators, green-fuel gurus, and other individuals and communities this project will inevitably attract.

In addition, following the performance, we intend to offer a "curtain call to action" to the audience to participate with us in a location-appropriate community project the following day. People from all over the country are invited to help us decide where to perform, and what good works we can do while there. Please submit your ideas at: http://postplayaproductions.com/co-create.php

Spearheaded by devoted and experienced Burners and including diverse contributions from across the Burning Man community, the Roadshow will consolidate the skills and ethos we have honed in the desert and take them to the next level, beyond the playa and out into the world. The Roadshow’s all-Burner cast and crew will provide the same sense of wonder, possibility, and action that was once only accessible with a Burning Man ticket. Tides of change are already starting to swell across our extended community, and the Roadshow is committed to making some waves of our own, while demonstrating Green ethics and collaborative solutions.
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Green focus: We are committed to making our Roadshow a model and demonstration tool for Green tools and technologies. In doing so, we intend not only to exemplify our OWN ethics, but also to provide real models for other groups and for the local communities we visit and pass through.
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Community involvement: We intend to actively engage and involve the Burning Man community in shaping and populating the show. Just as importantly, we intend to identify projects appropriate for each location we visit, and to invite nearby Burners, Roadshow attendees, and interested citizens to join with us in collaborating on a local project that will capture the proactive character of the Burner community...
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On the playa/on the road: This August, we will use our time on the playa to shoot site-specific video for the show; to hold auditions (formal and informal) for collaborators, co-creators and specific role-players; to network and source the best Green ideas, bio-diesel buses, shade structures etc. for use in our Roadshow; and to use our time together in Black Rock City, NV to reinforce and solidify our vision and commitment, and bring in new members to our team. Although we're far from solidifying a tour schedule, our current plan is to tour nationally (with perhaps a jump into Canada) from May through mid-August of 2008, with a brief break for the cast and crew to rest and collect ourselves before ending with a triumphal series of performances at Burning Man '08.

For more information, please check out our website at http://postplayaproductions.com