LubDub creates ambitious, athletic work at the intersections of new writing, music, movement and immersive performance. The company works in many different modes including writer-driven new play development, movement-driven ensemble devising, and research-driven adaptation. Collaboration is the core of every phase of LubDub’s creative process. LubDub’s work has been produced around the world with translation into 10+ languages. Current projects include: To Tell A Story About the Earth (commissioned by Concord Theatricals), The Magic Bullet (co-commissioned by Pangea World Theatre in partnership with the Arab American National Museum, Noor Theatre and National Performance Network), and A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist currently on a sustainable tour of Europe, Asia, and the UK). Learn more at lubdubtheatre.com

During their residency, LubDub Theatre Co. will continue developing the transdisciplinary performance piece, THE MAGIC BULLET. The project includes the following ensemble of generative artists: Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Noelle Ghoussaini, Pierre Jampy, Ismail Khalidi, Mohamed Yabdri, Geoff Kanick and Robert Duffley.

Magic. Colonial powers. Liberation. An ensemble of seven artists tells the story of Algerian revolt through archival sources, ritual, original writing, stage magic and documentary filmmaking. As the ensemble attempts to confront the legacy of this historical performance, an overlapping, intersecting sea of stories unfolds across space and time, defying a global legacy of colonization and reclaiming the liberatory potential of magic.

The project is inspired by historical accounts of the marabouts—Sufi mystics who animated Algeria’s massive revolt against French colonial rule in the 19th century—and by the story of renowned French stage magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, who crossed the Mediterranean on an imperial mission to prove the superiority of European conjuring over the miracles of Algerian rebel mystics and indigenous spiritual leaders. Drawing on archival sources, ritual, original writing, stage magic and documentary filmmaking, THE MAGIC BULLET offers an uncanny confrontation between the power of illusion and the illusion of power.