Requiemfor Tesla

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Requiem for Tesla

• Event: Requiem for Tesla
• Date: Thursday Feb 9, 2003
• Time: Show starts at 8:00pm, try to be there by 7:30pm
• Location: The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo St. [Take 7th Street heading east from IH-35. Take a right on Robert Martinez at the Popeye's Chicken, and an immediate left on Hidalgo.]
• Description: Rude Mechanicals is proud to bring back REQUIEM FOR TESLA - a semi-biographical, sci-fi homage to Nikola Tesla, a genius inventor who loved pigeons, hated spherical objects and was undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of all time. REQUIEM FOR TESLA is an ecstatic and evocative tribute to the man who gave us alternating current and dreamed of spaceships in a time when even electricity was dangerous magic. Tesla's impassioned efforts to improve the quality of life for humankind left him straddling a line between genius and insanity. Rude Mechs' high-voltage stage-collage honoring the genius/madman fuses electrical magic, subconscious desire, and a real message from Mars. A hallucinaotry Mark Twain, live music by The Golden Arm Trio, and a spine-tingling Tesla coil all combust in this sci-fi electromagnetic polyphase dynamo play. web site

Photos

TomMorin, Mark's wife, and Tami.

A very large half sphere that hides a VERY large Tesla Coil.

After the show, MarkHinkle represented the Robot Group as a resident expert on the life and works of Nikola Tesla.