Take a Journey Around the Globe with 17 BORDER CROSSINGS at Wharton Center

Embark on a journey around the globe in this gritty and enlightening play, making its Michigan debut at Wharton Center. 17 Border Crossings will be presented on the Pasant Theatre stage on Sunday, March 26, 2017.

17 Border Crossings moves from one nation to the next describing the sometimes harrowing, sometimes traumatic situations that are often encountered when moving from one country to another.

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Take a trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent in 17 Border Crossings, which starts with an empty stage and ends everywhere but! The itinerary: a Communist-era train traveling from Prague to Belgrade; a transatlantic jet to Heathrow; and 15 other border crossings recreated with magnetic charm by director, designer, and storyteller/narrator Thaddeus Phillips (Red-Eye to Havre de Grace).

A chair, table, and bar of lights become the settings for body searches at Charles de Gaulle airport, KFC-smuggling in Palestine, and run-ins with the Swedish pop band Ace of Base on Croatian ferries in this engrossing look at the ins and outs of our fragile "right" of passage.

Thaddeus Phillips, the man behind this project, is no stranger to borders. Mr. Phillips, head of the Philadelphia-based theater company Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, created, designed and performs the piece. He grew up in Denver's Park Hill neighborhood and went to Colorado College, but now lives in Columbia with his wife Tatianna and his infant son Rafael.