FringeNYC Previews

Boots

Produced by Migrant Productions

Author: Giacondo Trevellini

Boots is the cycle of war and peace.  A mythical landscape of tribal peoples on the edge of existence has been ravaged again and again for the gain of land and water.  Told in episodes shifting between masks and the central characters, Boots plays with the alienation experienced when those we're not familiar with are caught within the same struggles of those we know and hold dear.

The show tries not to delineate between the pertinence of the time in which it's told.  In fact, Boots examines war as a function of human nature, as it does love, birth and death.   So I believe that sadly this show will be as pertinent today while we fight our wars, as it will when our grandchildren fight theirs.

This play is a FringeNYC type show.  It's a show a bit off-kilter – not something you'd see if it weren't for this type of festival that looks to push boundaries.  It's quirky, theatrical, and a bit audacious.

John Trevellini, playwright