The celebrated ensemble theater company CollaborationTown returns to Watermill, deriving inspiration from the Morality Plays, primarily of the Medieval and Tudor periods, in a contemporary American environment. The didactic nature of the source plays, coupled with their utter lack of humor, makes them ripe for parody. CollaborationTown’s experimentation led them to the theatrical creation of a new self-help movement, Momentum: The Teachings of Ezra. Like all morality plays, the theatrical company represents a force, or church, that sets out to save the audience’s souls. CollaborationTown becomes MOMENTUM.
On Thursday, February 4th, MOMENTUM invited guests to an exclusive invitation to their transformation of the Watermill Center as their “Mother Hole” (or HUB). Riders (or teachers) of the MOMENTUM spoke to the new Passengers (or students) about the teachings of the MOMENTUM (How to Ride the Gapping Spinning Hole of The Momentum; Law of Attraction and the Art of Allowing; Pain is a Myth; Listen to your Inga-Linga-Ding-Dong; Using PRoV-MODs to stop V-MODs). This video is an excerpt of this early stage of this play that will be next presented in the New York International Fringe Festival in New York City in August, 2010. The video was shot and edited by Carlos Soto.