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It is the final decade for humans to redress our impact on the planet. Since you attended an eye-opening environmental lecture several years ago, you have joined the fight against the many-headed hydra of climate change with increasing fervor. But no matter how many marches, letters to politicians, protests, donations, and local and global campaigns you organize, it seems the forces against you only grow stronger. You're tired and frustrated, and the world is on the brink. You decide the time for nonviolence is over.

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New World Rising! made headlines in late 2021 when a spate of explosions targeting heavy-polluting corporations and corrupt politicians ripped across the country. Inspired by aggressive forebearers Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front, NWR used anonymous publications, coded briefings, and pirate radio to activate self-organizing collectives willing to "inflict economic damage on those profiteering from destruction of the Earth." You have tracked down passionate members of the growing but secretive Philadelphia cell, and you are joining them to take down a local target. But however strong your ideals, the risks are great, and your own future hangs in the balance.

 

 

Part immersive performance, part audio play, part walking tour, this roughly 60 minute single audience member ambulatory adventure is back after its sold-out run in the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. A smartphone is required to access audio and written instructions guiding you through downtown Philadelphia.

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Philly Theatre Week:


Friday, April 1, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Saturday, April 2, 11:00am - 12:00pm; 12:30pm - 1:30pm; 2:00pm - 3:00pm; 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Sunday, April 3, 11:00am - 12:00pm; 12:30pm - 1:30pm; 2:00pm - 3:00pm; 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Monday, April 4, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Friday, April 8, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Saturday, April 9, 11:00am - 12:00pm; 12:30pm - 1:30pm; 2:00pm - 3:00pm; 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Sunday, April 10, 11:00am - 12:00pm; 12:30pm - 1:30pm

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Additional Details:

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Performance requires audience to walk 1 mile over an hour-long performance.

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After registering, you will receive additional information from Linnea Bond!

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Cast

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KADEEM ALI HARRIS (RADY) is an actor/director/producer from the Bronx, New York. He was most recently seen at Omari in PIPELINE at the Cleveland Playhouse. Kadeem has acted regionally at the American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Kadeem is a recent graduate of the American Conservatory Theater's MFA program in Acting as well as the Tisch School of the Arts for Drama. He has produced the 2016 Bay Area Artist Festival with the premiere of Obie Award winner Aleshea Harris’ play CRACK. RUMBLE. FLY. Kadeem is currently working on reinstating his devised piece BLACK MASCULINITY and his one person show LEGACY about the life and journey of his father and the foster care system. Kadeem is a committed teaching artist who has taught in New York City, Cincinnati, and the Bay Area and is the recipient of the Bratt Family Diversity Scholarship and the Litfin Scholarship. You can see him on the upcoming Amazon Prime series “Harlem” starring Megan Good.

ANGELA BEY (they/them) (FIANCE) is a multidisciplinary artist from Philadelphia. They create to inspire decolonization, joy, radical honesty, and healing - believing it is our divine duty to build the utopia we may not live to see. Ang is co-artistic director of Wings of Paper Theatre Co. and Shoe Box Theatre Collective. Selected credits - Acting: YOUNG MONEY (Azuka Theatre), FABULATION (Lantern Theater), THE NICITIES (InterAct), D-PAD (Theatre Exile), CODE BLACK PLANET (Wilma Theatre), DAYS OF RE-CREATION (Philadelphia Theatre Company), OUR OUIJA BOARD… (On the Rocks), CANDLES (Philadelphia Young Playwrights), TWELTH NIGHT (Shakespeare in Clark Park), LP (AE Film; Carl Lerner Award, Best Student Film Nominee at Bronzelens & Woodstock Film Festivals), BRACELET (John Deswert, “Best of the Fest'' at the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival), and the Actors Ensemble at Sundance Directors Lab. Playwriting: Germantown Plays Pericles (Shakespeare in Clark Park), Every Everyman (SCP), and The Medusa Play (Shoe Box). Ang is currently commissioned by Elevate Theatre Company and Lupine Performance Cooperative. Directing: Whisper (Shoe Box), Every Everyman (co-director), The Medusa Play (co-director), and The White Feather Project (self-produced). angelabey.com

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ROHAAN UNVALA (HYDE) is a deviser, performer, mixed-media artist and teacher born and raised in Mumbai, India. His work focuses on impulse, improvisation, and play, He is a recent graduate of the Pig Iron Devised Performance MFA program and currently serves as Visiting Faculty in the Theatre Arts Department at The University of Pennsylvania.

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LINNEA BOND (Creator/BENZY) is an actor/writer/director/teacher who creates new work about apocalypse. With an MFA in Devised Performance (Ohio State), a background in sociology, and a passion for social justice; she frequently explores how climate change, cognition, and social relationships define our chaotic existence, working with clown, immersive mediums, audio, film, traditional theatre, and poetry and prose. In addition to her own work, she can be seen in the films CAROL and DARK WATERS, and appeared in productions by PAC, The Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Renegade Theatre Company. She has directed productions at UPenn, Moorestown Friends School, Lupine Performance Cooperative, and Alternative Light Theatre. In addition to creating and teaching, she works with Earth Quaker Action Team and Physicians for Social Responsibility in fighting for a just and sustainable future, often directly protesting at headquarters of institutions that support the fossil fuel industry in the name of capitalism.

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Linnea Bond is a performance artist, actor, writer, director, and teacher who produces work with intentional social momentum. ​

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Linnea Bond is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, environmental justice organizer, and educator exploring apocalypse and renewal on a personal, interpersonal, and global scale. With her undergraduate degree in Sociology and an MFA in Acting and New Works Creation, her work lives in the intersection of art and activism and has included live proscenium theatre, clown, traditional storytelling, immersive/site specific experiences, protest design, and audio and video creation. She is currently touring The American Revolution with Chicago-based Theatre Unspeakable.

 

Linnea has toured to twelve North American cities performing Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You!, her autobiographical comedic solo show about her life-threatening tumors and a devastating break-up, and connecting the pain of heartbreak to the climate crisis. Picked up for a run at Off-Broadway's SoHo Playhouse, the show won Critics’ Pick of the Cincinnati Fringe and artist vote for encore performance, and Producer’s Pick at the Atlanta Fringe, with the Orlando Weekly saying, “If Amy Sedaris and Jane Lynch had a baby who became the world's most intense timeshare salesperson, they still probably wouldn't be half as arresting as Linnea Bond… [A]n achingly funny plea for existence.” At each tour stop, she has partnered with local organizations to connect audiences with environmental justice campaigns after the show. She also presented the work at Penn State Abington with a talkback and writing workshop for students, and taught similar writing and touring workshops at Ohio State and Gonzaga Universities.

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As a solo artist, she also created BFF, a one woman play about a millennial woman and her mannequin best friend traversing post-apocalyptic America. New World Rising!, her immersive ambulatory experience in which a single audience member follows texted and scanned instructions as a new recruit to an eco-terrorist cell, sold out its Philadelphia Fringe Festival premiere in 2021. You Have My Name and Loosey and Goosey Present The Final Show both explore memory loss: the first is an essay performance drawing lines between herself and her grandmother with dementia and the second is an audience participatory piece about creating theatre in a memory-less dystopian future. During the pandemic, she premiered a "live movie" in her apartment, where a single audience member designed their own experience watching the fallout of a life-changing phone call (News).

 

Linnea also devises collaboratively. With A Benefit Cabaret To Save Philadelphia From Climate Change, she brought together five of Philadelphia’s best cabaret and drag performers for a theatrical funding fiasco that turns into an activist teach-in halfway through the show. ​ She collaborated with Lupine Performance Cooperative on Brian’s House, a piece exploring cults and power; with Sohrab Haghverdi on SexPlay, which received a digital premiere; and with Blake Edwards on script development of his one-woman show about objectification in a codependent relationship through the lens of a nude figure study model. She has also worked with Renegade Theatre Company in partnership with the Andrew Wyeth Museum (N.C. Wyeth's Dream) and with Theatre OBLIvION on their verbatim piece exploring the heroin crisis (Siren Songs). With her graduate cohort of Acting/Devising MFAs at Ohio State University, she created a play exploring reintegration challenges and the civilian-military divide in partnership with veterans and their caretakers (Beyond All Recognition).

 

In addition to writing and stage acting, she has also directed and dramaturged, and played small roles in Todd Haynes’ films, Carol and Dark Waters. She has taught elementary through adult students, including three years teaching undergraduate theatre and acting at Ohio State. She also founded and produced a playreading company, Queen City Queer Theatre Collective, which celebrated LGBTQIA stories in Cincinnati for two years through support from a monthly Absolut Vodka grant. In addition to her graduate research, she draws on extensive acting and movement training with such companies as SITI, Pig Iron, the RSC, American Conservatory Theatre, Double Edge, and Frantic Assembly.

 

She played leadership roles in Earth Quaker Action Team’s “Power Local Green Jobs” campaign and the Vanguard SOS campaign, alongside the Yes Men and Sunrise Project. As Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania’s Education Director, she partners with impacted communities to build sustainable solutions and end fossil fuel extraction. Her 20-minute Built To Last documentary was instrumental in securing new funding for the comprehensive repair and sustainability retrofit program benefitting low income homeowners.

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Linnea uses all pronouns (she/he/they).

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