Upcoming Performances

La Cabelleriza (Urubamba, Peru): July 8-9, 2023

Francis Marion University Artist Series: September 21, 2023

Production History

LEAF Global Arts / Asheville Fringe Festival: March 23 & 25, 2023

Grand Old Post Office / GOPO Foundation: March 18, 2023

The Vino Theatre (NYC): March 15, 2023

Lexington Children’s Theatre / SETC Fringe Festival: March 3, 2023

El Galpón (Lima, Peru) - October 16-17, 2022

Work-in-Progress Performance - BorderLight Fringe Festival, July 2022

Ten-Minute Pop-Up Performance - City Center Farmers Market, August 2021

Swear allegiance

to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos

can predict the motions of your mind,

lose it. Leave it as a sign

to mark the false trail, the way

you didn’t go. Be like the fox

who makes more tracks than necessary,

some in the wrong direction.

Practice resurrection.

 – from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” by Wendell Berry

birdbrain // mente de pollo

Original Creation by Lillian White and Ricardo Delgado

Description:

Can a chicken’s life story help us understand our own? 

A small-town farm girl finds herself pulled between South America and South Carolina. Inspired by the birds that defined her childhood, and that have accompanied human migration for millenia, she reflects on what it means to be a traveler in the 21st century. Dreamt up on her parents’ 50- acre chicken farm and developed in Lima, Peru, this unique performance is rooted in international collective creation.

Click Here - Director’s Note

Click Here - March ‘23 Touring Reflection & Financial Snapshot

Book a performance or workshop! Click Here - Touring Rider

Lillian White - Co-Creator & Performer

Ricardo Delgado - Co-Creator & Director

Erin Amlicke - Assistant Director

Pol Colino - Mask Design

Eliza Zeitlin - Chicken Stand Design

Special thanks: Luis Yucra, Igor Bombillo, Marlena Ospina, Eliza Zeitlin, David & Pattie White