To prepare for the orginal work An Exquisite Dream of Fire, Funkopolis undertook Arthur Kopit's celebrated drama WINGS. The play details the strange, terrifying, shattered world of a woman who we realize, as the play unfolds and the pieces of the beautifully constructed mosaic begin to fall into place, has suffered a stroke. Time, place, language, speech, and thought have lost their meaning, and the piece magnificently chronicles her struggle to re-create order and rediscover reality.
Axis Theatre
Baltimore, Maryland USA
May 26 - June 9, 1999
Emily Donna M. Fox
Amy Shannon Maddox
Medical Staff/Ensemble Stan Brown
Medical Staff/Ensemble Sara Vacin
Billie/Ensemble Sean Rung

Billie/Ensemble Sean Rung

Director Tim Brown
Playwright Arthur Kopit
Assistant Director Sofia Vgenopoulou
Scenic Design Daniel Ettinger
Costume Design Shannon Maddox
Sound Design Erik Trester
Lighting Design Craig A. Young
  • This production was planned in coordination with National Stroke Awareness Month; a benefit performance was given for the the Inch by Inch Stroke Survivors Support Group at Bayview Hospital in Baltimore.
  • The production of WINGS marked a return for Funkopolis to the home of their origin -- Baltimore's Axis Theatre, where their 1996 hit production of Poor Super Man had originally premiered.

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