Sunday, June 5, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Theater-On-The-Walk™ Graduate Thesis
“Theater-On-The-Walk” is a spiritually-themed nonfictional memoir that catalogs the ongoing chronicles of my privileged male youth born as a childlike emperor on an illusionary quest to save the world from the destruction of my older brother, Christopher – “The Antagonist”.
Raised in the nested surroundings of unconditional love and pure imagination, the author “Bluebird” and self acclaimed “Protagonist”, grows up alongside his unruly brother who as “the black sheep of the family”, forces Bluebird to identify himself as “the good guy” – a burden of youth that compels him to harbor the world and all of humanity upon his weary shoulders.
A two-fold story of diverging narratives, Theater-On-The-Walk is a nostalgic voyage between reality and fantasy that goes on to describe the four chapters of Bluebird’s progressive adolescence into adulthood: “The Wonder Years”, “The Growing Years”, “The Lost Years”, and “The Greatest Adventure.”
Each chapter is divided into three sections separated by a “Theatrical Journal” scribed by Bluebird who, after being captured by “The Lord of Darkness”, logs the operatic story of his own dark phantom that haunts both the reader throughout the text as well as the unsuspecting citizens it encounters on the ivy league grounds of Dartmouth College as it endeavors to walk home during a lonesome stormy night.
Introducing each stage is a supporting “Side-Story Narrative” that overarches Bluebird’s descent away from humanity and into the fiery depths of hell – a dark story based from the fictional account of “The Wanderer” who along his eastern trek by foot, searches for his long lost brother as he struggles to contain his own inner demons from breaking free to terrorize the world and all of humanity.
Beset by persistent feelings of loneliness, heartbreak, and suicide, the Protagonist, who secretly longs for his brother’s companionship while at the same time fearing the prospect of becoming an adult, wages a rebellious ego-driven struggle to maintain the magic of his childhood by openly wearing an elaborate costume, defiantly crowned with a starburst-shaped mask, against the conservative eyes of public scrutiny in the small town of Hanover, New Hampshire.
Appropriately named “The Sun God” by students of Dartmouth College, Bluebird enters the mask into an outdoor paradise of childhood fantasy where the world of Hanover is hand-played like a marionette to his own whimsical desires - as though the entire town itself were his own personal playground to explore, experience, and conquer.
All the while… growing within The Sun God’s furnace of fire is the Tyrant Ego who offers Bluebird the temptation of becoming a true living God – a crossroad that Bluebird must eventually decide - between his own humanity or the way of the mask.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Theater-On-The-Walk™ "Sun God is the Voldemort of Dartmouth"
News Source: The Dartmouth Mirror
Headline: "W.W.D.H. What Would Harry Do?”
Publisher: Madeline Zeiss
Publication Date: May 6th, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Through the Sun, I See the Moon in Your Eyes
Author: Amanda Spoto
Class: ENG 7.3
Instructor: Prof. Crumbine
Published: May 2011
Theater-On-The-Walk™ AVA Gallery Press Release
News Source: The Complete Hoot
Headline: "Johnathan James Recor at AVA May 13th”
Publisher: Deesie Curtis, Managing Editor
Publication Date: May 1st, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Theater-On-The-Walk™ Sun God Releases Highly-Criticized Video
News Source: Dartmouth Dartbeat Blog
Headline: "Sun God Releases Highly-Criticized Video”
Publisher: Isha Flores, The Dartmouth Staff
Publication Date: April 8th, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Theater-On-The-Walk™ Art Exhibition At AVA Gallery
On May 13th to June 10th of 2011, AVA Gallery and Art Center will be hosting an exhibition sale for The Sun God’s “Theater-On-The-Walk” Artwork to be shown in house at 11 Bank Street in Lebanon, NH 03766.
Opening Reception: Friday, May13th, 5-7PM
Artist's Talk: Saturday, May 21st, 3PM
Exhibition Location: Johnson Sisters Library (Second Floor).
AVA Website: www.avagallery.org
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Theater-On-The-Walk™ Sun God Shines At Night
News Source: Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Headline: "Sun Shines At Night"
Publisher: Sean Plottner (Editor)
Publication Date: January 6th, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Theater-On-The-Walk™ Sun God's Thunder
News Source: The Dartmouth (College Newspaper)
Headline: "It's Always Snowy In Hanover”
Publisher: Jack Barrett (Dartmouth Staff)
Publication Date: January 18th, 2011
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