MOONBIRDS OPENS PSTS SEASON OF OBSESSION WAR. DESTRUCTION. DEVESTATION. THE AFTERMATH.

The New York Premiere of Moonbirds by native Texan Christopher Woods opens our season on October 23, 2003. In a Middle Eastern desert wasteland, two international census takers trek laboriously onward, fighting famine, thirst and the aftermath of mass destruction. Step into the personal space of human desperation.

Museums tell us about once-proud cultures that inhabited this earth. Today, we can witness the broken pieces of lives shattered by human violence in real time, in real places. Come with us to the desert.
Join Ignoto and Rien, two international census takers who have been sent to the crumbling remnants of the Middle East to count the populations of its ruined cities. As they fight for survival in the unforgiving landscape, their minds search not for answers of Why?" but to fulfill their most basic needs of food, sex, security and above all, an accurate count.

Will they survive hunger, thirst, loneliness, the bitter cold of the nighttime and the blistering heat of the afternoon? Or will it be the great birds that follow them, deliverers of destruction, which will eventually make them no more than a museum memory? The New York City premiere of Christopher Woods Moonbirds, directed by PSTs Associate Artistic Director Nicholas Cotz, will allow you to step into the personal space of human desperation. Moonbirds will leave the Why?" of it all to you.

It used to be that entire peoples were destroyed by no more than steel and fire;" says director Nicholas Cotz, With todays Weapons of Mass Destruction and sanctions of Mass Depravation, it makes it that just that much easier. What Moonbirds explores is
how important culture is, and how much we lose when we destroy one. These two men have nothing but each other, and it is up to them, in the now destroyed cradle of civilization, to create their own culture in order to survive."

You can see Phil Garfinkel and Alan Jestice in Moonbirds at Theatre 54 @ Shetler 244-250 West 54th Street in New York City from October 23rd through November 2nd. To order tickets 24 hours a day, logon to www.theatermania.com or call (212) 352-3101.

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