{"id":2736,"date":"2015-03-24T14:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2015-03-24T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:10:40","slug":"after-america-wasteland-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/2015\/03\/24\/after-america-wasteland-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"After America: Wasteland 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER AMERICA: WASTELAND 2015<br \/>\nWorld Premiere Production of a play by Jon Elston (UB Theatre &amp; Performance MA &#8217;15)<br \/>\nPlaying through 4\/4\/2015<br \/>\nAt the Road Less Traveled Theater (Buffalo, NY)<br \/>\nThursdays through Saturdays @ 7:30 PM \/ Sunday 3\/29 @ 2 PM<br \/>\nStudents pay only $5 on Thursday nights (w\/ ID)<br \/>\nFor tix &amp; info: <a href=\"http:\/\/roadlesstraveledproductions.org\/%20\">http:\/\/roadlesstraveledproductions.org\/ <\/a><br \/>\n45 second video promo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ob9z7lJKXkM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ob9z7lJKXkM<\/a><br \/>\nAFTER AMERICA: WASTELAND 2015<br \/>\nby Jon Elston (UB Theatre and Performance MA Candidate)<br \/>\nDirected By Scott Behrend &amp; Katie Mallinson<br \/>\n03\/13\/2015 until 04\/04\/2015<\/p>\n<p>Starring Lisa Vitrano, Peter Palmisano, Danica Riddick, Steve Brachmann, Monish Bhattacharyya, and Kelsey Mogensen.<br \/>\nWho Will Save The New World? Join Tommi \u2013 former waitress and newly appointed savior of the entire human race \u2013 as she leads you on a thrilling tour of America after the Apocalypse!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 2015, and a skeletal United States government has spent two years struggling to restore some semblance of order. Only 919 confirmed American survivors remain, all of them housed at Camp Evangola (South of Buffalo, NY), where they receive training in the skills necessary to rebuild civilization. (That\u2019s right \u2013 the country\u2019s erstwhile Military Industrial Complex has been replaced by the Department of Education!) Now, one small group receives their final assignment: to venture deep into the heart of the dangerous American wasteland and prevent a devastating atomic threat.<br \/>\nThis suicide mission unites Tommi with two other freshly redundant survivors \u2013 a Blogger and a Graduate Student \u2013 neither of who feel that their work experience qualifies them to save the world. The final member of the team is Justin Foch, pampered Libertarian industrialist and former Fourth Richest Man In America, who doesn\u2019t even feel motivated to save a world that no longer acknowledges his wealth and status. Somehow, this ragtag squad of desperate Americans must overcome their differences and deficiencies; they must survive the myriad hazards of the Wasteland (particularly the zombies and the survivalist cannibals!); and they must protect the fragile remnants of humankind. Yet fractious political animosities continue to simmer to a boil \u2014 even deep inside an underground nuclear silo.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Apocalypse, Tommi felt she had no control over her life (or anything else). Now, she\u2019s equipped with an education and a fully automatic assault rifle, and the future of Western Civilization rests in her hands. RLTP\u2019s original resident actress Lisa Vitrano plays Tommi, joining forces with playwright Jon Elston (author of 2012: End Of The Road)and a high-octane ensemble to present After America: Wasteland 2015\u2026 an action-packed alternate history and a fantastic fable of female empowerment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER AMERICA: WASTELAND 2015 World Premiere Production of a play by Jon Elston (UB Theatre &amp; Performance MA &#8217;15) Playing through 4\/4\/2015 At the Road Less Traveled Theater (Buffalo, NY) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/2015\/03\/24\/after-america-wasteland-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After America: Wasteland 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}