Sep 8 – Oct 7, 2007
EXPEDITION 6
a world premiere theatre event
created and directed by BILL PULLMAN

in association with the Chabot Space & Science Center

This imaginative docudrama explores the personal and political life-and-death crisis of two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut stranded in space after the Columbia Shuttle disaster.  Pullman uses a company of eight actors, movement, live music, and low-flying trapezes in this stylized new work based on writings by astronauts, NASA reports, and other primary source materials.

"Our Space History" Exhibition: Space flown items from the world-famous collection of The W Foundation will be on display Sep 14-16 an hour before and after curtain.

Reviews:

• "first-rate ensemble... genuine and affecting drama" - San Francisco Chronicle
• “wonderfully inventive… bold physical production” – Oakland Tribune
• “a beautiful and engaging blend of theatre, music and dance… a wonderfully bold piece of theatrical experimentation.” – Contra Costa Times
• “It's the sparse beauty of nearly empty tableaux that most keenly suggest the grandeur of space and man's place in it. The closing moments of the show bathe the viewer in that dawning sense of wonder” – San Jose Mercury News

Press on Bill Pullman's Expedition 6:

• San Francisco Chronicle: Columbia shuttle disaster inspired Bill Pullman’s play at the Magic
• LA Times: Bill Pullman: hyphenated
• San Jose Mercury News: Stranded in space: the story of Expedition 6

Audience Responses to Expedition 6:

• “The play is fantastic – interesting and emotionally moving on so many levels. The production and storytelling was superb!”
• “The trapeze work is lovely and haunting… beautiful ending.”
• “Expedition 6 raises the standard on the cool and smart scale.”

Photos
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Executive Producers
Carlie Wilmans
Ken Winans & The W Foundation
Deborah A. Wreyford & The Wreyford Family Foundation

Producers
Art Klein
Dan & Carolyn Miller
Dr. Peter Panagotacos
Dan Schryer
Mrs. Dennis Weaver
Michael, Becky & Lisa Winter
Will Wright & Kim Edwards

Expedition 6 was developed in workshops at the National Theatre Conservatory (the MFA training program at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts), New York Stage and Film at Vassar College, ACTF at the Kennedy Center, and Baltimore Theatre Project.

Mr. Pullman would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their significant contributions to the creation of Expedition 6: Anne Sigrist, Linda Elerbee, Tamara Hurwitz Pullman, Don & Micky Pettit, and Ken & Ann Bowersox.