THE RADICALIZATION PROCESS to Return to The Hinterlands This Month

After two critically acclaimed, sold-out runs in 2016, The Hinterlands will once again present their original and explosive site-specific work The Radicalization Process for a limited three performance run in April.

The Radicalization Process will be performed from Tuesday, April 25 - Thursday April 27, at Play House (12657 Moran Street, Detroit) at 8PM. Tickets are sliding scale $10-30. For reservations, call 313.454.1756 or email info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.

Layering historical accounts of the radical left of the 1960's and 70's with a master class in American method acting, socialist pageantry, and a gleefully obtuse re-production of The Living Theatre's Antigone, The Radicalization Process stokes the embers of America's past revolutions to ignite our radical potential. Audiences will begin the performance sifting through a basement archive of a forgotten revolutionary, navigating histories true and false, real and imagined, before they make their way into the performance space, a safe-house within a house in 1970s Detroit. Multiple timelines run concurrently; imagery unfolds both mundane and shocking; a live-score is performed on analog synthesizers and everyday objects; L'Internationale is sung; a bomb is built.

The Radicalization Process was listed in Hyperallergic's "Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Across The United States" where critic Rosie Sharp called it "a rigorous workout for the imagination, a tool we could all stand to sharpen in the war that rages around us."

Play House performances will be held Tuesday, April 25th, Wednesday, April 26th, and Thursday, April 27th at 8pm. Run time is approximately 90 minutes. Tickets are available on a sliding scale for $10-30. Seating is limited to 20 audience members per night, so please reserve ahead of time by calling 313.454.1756 or emailing info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.

The Radicalization Process is an original performance by The Hinterlands, created and performed by Richard Newman, Liza Bielby, and Dave Sanders. Sound design and live score by Richard Newman. Scenic design by Shoshanna Utchenik, archive creation by Liza Bielby and Casey Rocheteau, and publication design by Benjamin Gaydos. Directed by Richard Newman. Scott Crandall is the performance technician. The performance was commissioned by Legion Arts, Power House Productions and Alverno Presents with generous support from the National Performance Network, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Arts Challenge, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, an the NEA Artworks program.

Formed in 2009 by co-directors Richard Newman and Liza Bielby, The Hinterlands use an explosive physical training process to create genre-defying performances that uncover and celebrate American culture underground and mainstream. Their work ranges from immersive psychedelic Wild West shows (Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle) in 2010) to drive-in vaudeville shows (2013's The Circuit) to border-crossing street festivals (Porous Borders Festival, May 2015) and has been seen at the MOCAD, Charlestown Working Theatre (Boston), Alverno Presents (Milwaukee), and Legion Arts (Cedar Rapids) as well as abroad at the Shanghai Biennale, Cooking Fire Theatre Festival (Toronto), and the Berlinale Forum Expanded.

Pictured: Liza Bielby, Dave Sanders, and Richard Newman in The Radicalization Process (Alverno Presents/Kat Schleicher Photography)

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