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Pork Dream in the American House of Image (Audio)

Jan 01, 1994
Created by Carl Hancock Rux, with original music by Bill Toles
The story in this play is written as a libretto. Enveloping new wave music, post-ante-bellum rhythms, blues, gospel, show tunes, and pan-African percussions, Pork Dream is a postmodern musical fantasia about an eternally young boy, "Pork," who was born and raised in a movie house at the beginning of the twentieth century. His family are the characters he has come to love, hate, and imitate, in Westerns, post-war detective flicks, turn-of-the-century race films, musicals, and Home Boy Hood Independents. As he enters the twenty-first century, Pork finds himself bored and all too familiar with the images he has lived with for a hundred years. So he decides to give up his eternal role as a film voyeur and become a filmmaker, facing his own creativity for the first time. But filmmakers seem to come and go—only the images and the audience live forever... Commissioned by New American Radio. 1994-1995.