A search for true darkness in an age of artificial light, Bortle 8 goes to the depths of the ocean and the celestial sky in the hopes of finding the last untouched place on Earth.
50 minutes / directed by Mary Tuomanen
Upcoming performances
Philadelphia Pennsylvania / Oct 2015
Razor's Edge Festival New Orleans / Nov 2015
Production History
Ithaca Fringe Festival New York / April 2015
Pittsburgh Fringe Pennsylvania / May 2015
PortFringe Maine / June 2015
Capital Fringe Washington DC / July 2015
Edinburgh Fringe Scotland / August 2015
SoLow Festival Philadelphia / June 2014
Simpatico Incubator Series Philadelphia / May 2014
“At one of these row homes, Chris recited Bortle 8 on a rooftop stage against the backdrop of a setting sun. It was a spiritual quest and a space ritual at once, with several modes of transportation, and it felt like Chris gathered up the entire audience and led them over land, through the sky, and into the ocean’s depths.”
“Davis (directed by Mary Tuomanen) employs poetic stream-of-consciousness narration, melding astronomer John Bortle’s scientific theory with self-exploration, personal reminiscences, and fantasy travel through the ‘terra incognita’ of life and the cosmos.”
“[An] idiosyncratic, well-constructed journey that moves between memory and fantasy, past water and light pollution and way into space.”