We Have Some Planes
WE HAVE SOME PLANES
Conceived, written, and directed by Brian Jucha
Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Jason Nodler, Artistic Director.
Premiered April 2002 at The Axiom Theater, Houston, TX
in collaboration with
Ensemble: Noel Bowers, Amy Bruce, Tamarie Cooper, Jodi McLaughlin, George Parker, Troy Schultze, Kyle Sturdivant, Cary Winscott
Lighting design: Roma Flowers
Stage Manager: Cathy Power
Sound design: Chris Bakos
Clock programming: Kirk Markley
Video design: George Parker
Assistant Director: Laura Somers
Production Manager: Anthony Barilla
Production photography: George Hixson
Best of Houston 2002
Best Original Show
Best Director
We Have Some Planes counts down like a time bomb waiting to explode and speeds towards an inevitable climax that cannot be avoided. It is a chilling neo-expressionistic look at life and love in modern times using dance, song, and theater and featuring a cast of eight actors.
Like Alice down the looking glass or Dorothy in the twister, a woman goes to work one morning and finds herself thrown into a twilight zone parallel universe where everything and everyone moves according to some twisted Kafkaesque pre-ordained series of events.
Wind-up people, clapping monkeys, evil clowns, musical karaoke numbers, rubber babies, a woman in a wedding gown, a man with a metal detector, Adam Ant, Winona Ryder, Dr. Kiss Kiss, acts of intimacy and betrayal are some of the elements encountered in this 75-minute non-narrative interdisciplinary dance-theater piece.
In keeping with Jucha's tradition of using text from found and 'real' sources the text for We Have Some Planes is taken verbatim from the actual conversations between the United States Northeast corridor flight controllers and three planes on the morning of September 11, 2001.
"We Have Some Planes is often intriguing, sometimes disturbing, and in its most arresting juxtapositions of sound and image, chilling and memorable. It's the theatrical equivalent of a jittery journey through a winding corridor of shattered fun-house mirrors." - Houston Chronicle
"Beyond risky, this production pushes us right up to the edge of some hard truths about the world we love. It takes nerves of titanium to write, produce, and perform material like this. Jucha and IBP prove that the payoff for such risk-taking can be enormous. Theatrically gorgeous, intellectually disturbing and painfully provocative, We Have Some Planes should not be missed by anyone who loves theater, politics or America and the dreams this country inspires." - Houston Press
"The fist-to-the-gut punch of [Jucha's] work has never been more evident than in We Have Some Planes, the absolutely stunning production now running..." - Houston Press
"Brian Jucha's latest project with Infernal Bridegroom Productions proves that the director knows how to manipulate the volatile chemistry of politics and theater to create the right kind of explosion." - Houston Press
"Jucha's incisive direction and Roma Flowers's technical finesse alone could not make this risky piece work. IBP brings vitality, integrity, and generosity of heart to the mix." - Houston Press
American Theatre & Kiss Kiss Girls Photos by Amy Spangler
Other Photos by Roma Flowers, Brian Jucha & Laura Somers
