Progress
20 - 25 actors | 70 minutes
Lord of the Flies meets The Breakfast Club at a post-climate-crisis high school graduation. The keeners are setting up, the radicals are committing small acts of vandalism to drive down property value, the burnouts are just trying to have a good time. When the power goes out, locking everyone inside, a group of teenagers must figure out on their own how to escape, how to make change in a world that has abandoned them, and whether to burn it all to the ground.
A live band, fire, and snack-size chips. What are we leaving behind to be inherited? How do we change the world?
“Sometimes I fantasize about moving somewhere where things are different
But it’s everywhere
It’s the whole world”
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
2021 - Commissioned by Central Memorial High School
2023 - Premiere at Central Memorial High School, Directed by Michelle Crimmins and Geoffrey Simon Brown
Progress was developed with support from the Central Memorial High School. Dramaturgy by Evan Medd. Additional creation support by Patrick Lundeen.
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar
The cast of Progress at the Centre for Performing & Visual Arts at Central Memorial High School (2023) • Costumes by Abbie Brokenshire • Direction by Michelle Crimmins & Geoffrey Simon Brown • Photo by Joni Millar