Christopher Whyte
Chris is a theatre maker, facilitator, and founding member of the performance collective ClusterFlux. His work is deeply rooted in collaborative and non-hierarchical methods, committed to creating performances that experiment with form and subvert conventional boundaries. Through his collaboration with ClusterFlux, his work has garnered support from The Pleasance, New Diorama, and Camden People’s Theatre (CPT). ClusterFlux has also received the Curious Directive’s inaugural Hypothesis Grant and an Arts Depot Residency. Their critically acclaimed debut show, PLEASE LEAVE (a message), will make its international debut later this year at Amsterdam Fringe 2024.
With Boundless, Chris has begun developing his first solo work, Untitled Bruce Rowley Project, inspired by conversations with a man named Bruce.
Untitled Bruce Rowley Project
The doors swing open, and the room falls silent. A storyteller begins the tale of a cowboy—an archetype, a man as rugged as the land he traverses.
In 2018, Bruce Rowley robbed a local bank in Ansonia, Connecticut, then drove over eight hours, crossing state lines through Massachusetts and Vermont, to throw the stolen cash into Taylor Swift’s backyard.
In ‘Untitled Bruce Rowley Project’, playwright Chris Whyte retells this story alongside Bruce himself, who has become a close collaborator. The play blends elements of reality and fiction, weaving together Bruce’s actual experiences with imagined scenarios and symbolic representations.
Inspired by old spaghetti westerns, ‘Untitled Bruce Rowley Project’ reimagines Bruce as a frontiersman journeying across the Wild West, camping by the Colorado River or finding shelter under the desert trees. Exploring themes of identity, societal expectations, and the human desire for validation and meaning, this thought-provoking and unconventional work maps one man’s misguided pilgrimage across the State.
To contact Chris about this project, please email Chris at: cgwhytie@gmail.com
