Dream Machine (2003)

My Body speaks; I think it is my God

One Yellow Rabbit paints a hallucinogenic chronicle of the American Beat movement, including William S. Burroughs and his Canadian mentor Brion Gysin. At the centre of the 1950s Beat circle, Burroughs and Gysin worked tirelessly to build the enigmatic Dream Machine, a device that used flickering light to alter brain waves and plunge the user into a waking dream state, free from the influences of advertising and mass culture. An exploration of their iconoclastic aesthetic and context forms the basis of One Yellow Rabbit's unconventional musical inspired by this group of notoriously wild outsiders, whose spiritual and artistic quest changed popular culture forever.

Blending live and electronic music, haunting visuals and One Yellow Rabbit's trademark physicality, Dream Machine is a radical departure from both the traditional theatre musical and the conventional biopic.

ARTISTIC

Written By: Blake Brooker and David Rhymer
Producer: Stephen Schroeder
Directed by: Blake Brooker
Choreography by: Denise Clarke
Lighting Design: Cimmeron Meyer
Assistant Director: David van Belle
Composition: David Rhymer, Johnathan Lewis, Richard McDowell, Peter Moller
Musical Director: Richard McDowell
Visual Design: Chris Cran
Production Manager: Cimmeron Meyer

CAST

Denise Clarke
Andy Curtis
Micahel Green
Onalea Gilbertson
Brad Payne

LIVE BAND

Johnathan Lewis: Violin and Bass
Richard McDowell: Audio Treatments
Peter Moller: Percussion
David Rhymer: Piano and Synthesizer