empires and appetites:
A History of Food and Famine 1989
A musical with six performers and 100 puppets.
Score by Pat Irwin, lyrics by Andrea Balis
"Song of Malthus"
The population of the earth progresses mathematically.
The generation of the food supply progresses arithmetically.
A giant two-sided head of Thomas Malthus, the scientist who predicted dire conseqeunces as the world became more populated. One side of his head featured dozens of vinyl babies and the other featured different calculation machines.
A 10-foot aluminum and wood ape-man marionnette
crawling on all fours gradually rises up onto two feet.
