THE SELF-COMBUSTION OF A 30-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLD CHET OR, ICARUS TRIES TO CATCH THE SUN at New Ohio Theatre

THE SELF-COMBUSTION OF A 30-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLD CHET OR, ICARUS TRIES TO CATCH THE SUN

Created by Keenan Oliphant. Performance by Nicholas McGovern

This performance poem chronicles a fictional Chet Baker drug-induced high in which Baker morphs into Icarus chasing the sun.

Keenan Tyler Oliphant is a Theatre-maker and Director from Cape Town, South Africa. Keenan's work is in the lineage of the South African communal theatre-making and storytelling rituals and traditions and is deeply interested in the merging of disciplines, art mediums and forms in an attempt to expand, dismantle and destabilize western theatre and performance.