In addition to our performances of An Iliad and Killing Buddha at the Doña Ana Arts Council next month, our friends will host the New Mexico premiere of Songs of Un-Creation, a piece Randy and Algernon have been working on for a while. We play the same storytellers, but this time instead of one, long narrative, the show assembles lore about the earth's creation and natural systems from around the world in a meditation on creation, humankind's impact on the earth, and the natu

Algernon refers to it as "a Kilibudhilad." A Kilibudhilad is when we perform An Iliad and Killing Buddha back to back. It doesn't happen very often, in part because it's exhausting for the performers, but it does offer a unique chance to experience a cycle. Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's marvelous adaptation of the Fagles version of the Iliad is what brought us together in 2014 (we actually began preparation in 2013), and from that tale of war and rage, we were inspired to