DAYS OF RAGE (2004) • Dodeska Performance Ensemble

DAYS OF RAGE is an audio performance for small audiences which combines headphones, speakers and live piano. It is also available for purchase in a slightly different CD version. There are audio samples here.

BACKGROUND
During the weekend of October 10, 1969, the radical left wing Weatherman organization (later the Weather Underground) brought their Days of Rage to Chicago, promising to bring thousands of participants from all over the country to violently protest America’s involvement in Vietnam, to support the efforts of the Black Panthers (who did not endorse the Days of Rage), and potentially to spark a violent revolution against the U. S. capitalist establishment. Instead of the thousands they had predicted, only a couple of hundred people showed up. They made some speeches, destroyed a modest amount of property in both affluent and working class neighborhoods, and were beaten by the police. All in all, the Days of Rage were considered a failure, and the Weathermen denounced by much of the left for their endorsement of violence.

DAYS OF RAGE takes place in present day New York City and follows several twentysomethings as they plan their own violent revolt while trying to pick up girls, make t-shirts, learn how to leave the house, get high on opium, and prevent the tiger in the bedroom from escaping.

TEXT MUSIC & SOUND
Robert Quillen Camp

FEATURING THE VOICES OF (in order of appearance)
Sally Oswald, Ryan Eggensperger, Robert Quillen Camp, B. Carter Edwards, David Frank, Leslie Good, Alexis Poledouris, Lucy Smith, Brooke Rogers, McCormick Templeman, Jon Asa Walker and James Camp