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—Worcester InCity Times

The Breaking Manager: 3 Plays
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—Allen Ginsberg

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Sarcoxie & Sealove:

"A punk rock political musical with a sense of humor…gnawing and poking at the very fibers that hold conservative America together." ~ Taos News

A radical sister and brother revolutionary duo take on the forces of corporate globalization and the cynicism of their father, an economist. Sarcoxie is an anarcha-feminist punk rocker fresh out of college, fronting her band and looking for a job. Sealove is a Christian socialist working as a carpenter and recuperating from losing a media battle against the right-wing. They are haunted by appearances of an insouciant, clueless President, and the ghost of his deceased biographer. Taos singer/songwriter Holley Anderson will play Sarcoxie. The play is written & directed by Sander Hicks.

 

Sander Hicks as Sealove, Holley Anderson as Sarcoxie. Photo: Chaz Wemple

from scene 2—

Sarcoxie: the Church is a diseased blanket thrown over human history. The Church is against reproductive rights, the full range of human sexuality. They aren't in the real world.

Sealove: The political informs the spiritual and vice versa, they strengthen each other, two boards fastened with screws creates a beam with more strength together than the sum total strength of the planks apart.

Sarcoxie: There are certain traditions you can't just casually pop back into if you want authentically modern consciousness...

Sealove: And there are certain traditions that you wake up and realize you never left, I was always fighting for truth these past years, some call Truth, God. What if we weren't just a punk rockers, but we were prophets?

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What will you do/ now that we're out of school?
they gave degrees/ for tripping on mushrooms
we pack our packs/ live out of our backs
a week in the woods/ searching for mushrooms
they butcher the language/ they butcher children
bomb teenage armies/ hospitals and prisons
overseas countries/ are brought to their knees
so that Coke and Nike/ can do as they please.

—the first lines of "What Will You Do"
Sarcoxie's first song in the first scene of
Sarcoxie & Sealove.

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"Hicks' unflinching expression undoubtedly makes some people uncomfortable. But it also inspires laughter and discussion that is worth the discomfort and deserving of a wider audience." ~ Jason Kelly, South Bend Tribune

Production History:

October, '03 Debut Production at Metta Projects Theatre
Taos, New Mexico

With: Holley Anderson as Sarcoxie
Also: Sander Hicks, Ben Keen, Lisa Levy, Ken McNamara, Aram Montoya, Kristian Moore, Stephen Moser, Scott Sloan & Chaz Wemple

L to R: Holley Anderson as Sarcoxie, Scott Sloan as Karl and bass player,
Rick DeStefano on piano, J. Kristian Moore as Hunter

 

"Sander's theater and publishing efforts bespeak an elegant self-empowerment and energy." - Allen Ginsberg, 1993

 

"His works deal almost always with problems of the overeducated and underemployed, of philosophies not quite elastic enough to make sense in the postmodern world, and of the role of responsibility in a nation whose morality is increasingly becoming a matter of wealth."
— Eric Zass, Kyezine