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About
Mosinee, Wisconsin, 1950. An idyllic Midwestern town is about to wake up to a nightmare.
A shadowy group of hardline activists are planning. Armed forces will imprison the townspeople. Communications will be cut off. Barbed wire fences will be erected. Prices will be changed. The Mayor will be held at gunpoint. And the hammer and sickle flag will be flown from every building.
But will they be able to pull it off? And will any of it be enough? Will America pay attention to the story they are trying to tell?
Plunging into the dawn of the Cold War and back again, The Mosinee Project follows the true story of a fake invasion. A fevered, darkly funny reconstruction, interrogating how we wrestle with our fears and turn them into stories. This Untapped Award 2024 winning show arrives at NDT fresh from a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run.
Quotes & Reviews
Reviews from Edinburgh Fringe 2024
★★★★ '[A] fascinating, slippery show' - The Stage
★★★★ 'Gut-churning tension' - Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
★★★★ 'Chilling and inventive' - Fest Magazine
★★★★ 'A gripping tale of weaponised political fear and espionage' - Entertainment Now
★★★★ 'A playful interrogation of truth and fiction that confounds as much as it amuses' - The Arts Desk
★★★★ 'A fascinating piece of history skilfully explored' - The Scotsman
The Company
Credits
Writer & Director - Nikhil Vyas
Original Co-creator & Dramaturg - Aaron Kilercioglu
Additional Material Devised by - Breffni Holahan, Jessica Layde, Jonathan Oldfield, Martha Watson Allpress & Millicent Wong
Set & Costume Designer - Grace Venning
Lighting Designer - Catja Hamilton
Sound Designer - Patch Middleton
Research Consultant - Emma Jude Harris
Fight Director - Robin Hellier
Producer - Jessie Anand
About the Company
Counterfactual is a theatre and performance company. We make shows that taps into the strange, complicated underbelly of contemporary life, investigating how the past and our memory of it brought us here. Created and led by Artistic Director Nikhil Vyas (Dismissed, ★★★★ Soho Theatre, My Life As A Cowboy, ★★★★ Park Theatre), Counterfactual pieces together collaborations across different disciplines, informed by the needs of the story at hand. The Mosinee Project is the company’s debut production.