Offspring of the Cold War

Institute History

  • 1999 Theatre Lab

Description

Like a strange mating of Don DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD and Shepard’s FOOL FOR LOVE, OFFSPRING OF THE COLD WAR spans the American century as Marcus and Miranda, an Adam-and-Eve-like pair of urban strangers, root through a pile of artifacts that grow to reveal the architecture of their and our lives. Through an odd magic, the artifacts cast a mesmeric spell that vaults the two young lovers backward through history where they became a crass showman displaying his new invention, Coney Island; a John Rockefeller wannabe blushing in a dominatrix’s parlor; an old CIA hand pausing for a romantic afternoon at an antique shop, and numberless others. The prize at the bottom of Marcus and Miranda’s particular box of Crackerjacks is the unexpected connections and world-historic twists of fate that make up the intimate details, not just the headlines of our lives. OFFSPRING OF THE COLD WAR is an elegiac ballad for a just-passed moment in history, a small-scaled but broad-canvassed detective story solving the riddle of how we got to be who we are.
—Carlos Murillo

Credits

As you use our Online Archives, please understand that the information presented from Festivals, Labs, and other activities is taken directly from official publications from each year. While this information is limited and doesn't necessarily represent the full list of participants (e.g. actors and crew), it is the list given to us by the main film/play/project contact at the time, based on the space restrictions of our publications. Each entry in the Online Archives is meant as a historical record of a particular film, play, or project at the time of its involvement with Sundance Institute. For this reason, we can only amend an entry if a name is misspelled, or if the entry does not correctly reflect the original publication. If you have questions or comments, please email [email protected]