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I conquered my dreams! – John Wilkes Booth

A fierce, undead tension animates the American frontier: the struggle between the freedom of the individual and the question of who or what belongs in the club. FREEDOM CLUB is a savage comedy about the delirium and danger in American extremism, a hallucination on national themes. It time-travels from a feverish dream-play starring Shakespearean assassin John Wilkes Booth to Virginia, 2015, where a determined group of self-styled radicals are rapidly coming unglued

Funny, lyrical, and provocative, FREEDOM CLUB is the result of an intense collaboration between New York experimental theater company The Riot Group, known for their potent barrage of language, and New Paradise Laboratories, who are famous for their witty and dynamic physicality. Together the two companies present a Lincoln White House full of prophetic visions, a Tea Party from beyond the grave, and a group of feckless separatists careening to their destiny. For tickets click http://www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=12742

PTI commissioned a case study of the FATEBOOK process, written by Charlotte Stoudt. This detailed article is a fascinating look at the process as well as the outcomes and questions that came out of this intense development process.

You can look at the nifty website here.

NPL collaborating with The Riot Group on FREEDOM CLUB in workshops in the Fall 2009 at the Princeton Atelier and in Philly in Spring 2010.

"A groundbreaking step into a theater of the future!" "One of the most unique and immersive theatrical productions I’ve ever experienced!--The Broad Street Review

"This beautiful, energetic young cast communicates physically and virtually, on Facebook and Twitter, not only during the performances but also around it. This ensemble fits together like stitches in a perfectly-knit sweater, complementing, strengthening and softening each other. Neither the characters nor their missions make the show but how we pay attention and what we take for granted that drives this remarkable conception."--Phawer.com

"Brilliant!!"--The Philadelphia City Paper

"One of the most unique and immersive theatrical productions I’ve ever experienced." Broad Street Review

It's a theatre piece that happens live in cyberspace and in real space. The audience attends in both places.

Cyberspace piece premiered July 8. Real space piece premiered Sept. 4. 2009.

Available for residency.

NPL is named Best Theatre Company of the Year in the Philadelphia Magazine. Write up includes the phrase "wildly entertaining".

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This project has been supported by a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, a program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts, The William Penn Foundation, The Independence Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund, The Samuel S. Fels Fund, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.