2011 - The Walk Across America - by Taylor Mac - set design at LaMama/Ellen Stewart Theater, NYC

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The Walk Across America

LaMama Theater, NYC

"Although the characters often directly address the audience, as in the style of commedia, Mr. Mac’s inspirations surely also include the panoramic social portraiture in Robert Altman movies, as well as that enduring classic about innocents and misfits searching for self-realization, "The Wizard of Oz." (The charming, folk-art-inspired sets by Anna Kiraly are simple wooden flats depicting vistas of roadway sprinkled in glitter.) At one point in the march, as the blisters blossom and clouds of disillusion gather, somebody grouses that these onward-stomping activists are "only refugees from the life they didn’t want to have.""