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Rainpan 43 Performance Group

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Location
Philadelphia, PA
Fiscal Year Awarded
2012
Grant or Program
National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant
Grant Amount
$50,000

Elephant Room is an absurd performance-art piece that takes the form of an evening-length magic show to embrace and expose the currency of deception in contemporary American culture. In true Rainpan 43 fashion, this is an actor-driven show that is at once hilarious and thought-provoking, ridiculous and poetic, shameless and sincere. In that order. Rainpan 43's Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford team up with actor/magician Steve Cuiffo, performing as Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, and Darryl Hannah: three third-class conjurors, dead set on leaving you slack-mouthed, devoid of any bodily function, your hands twitching from their wrists, a puddle of crushed perception.

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