Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their world is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invaide, offering gifts of language, medicine, art, and commerce. As the lure of development blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate, threatening their long-held values, community, and humanity. 

In a comic spectacle to challenge the pretense of altruism and civilisation, Frontieres Sans Frontieres asks what happens when generosity looks a lot like self-interest? How to comprehend when the promise of language matures to the tyranny of words? Who wins and who loses in a war to hold on to the people and places we love?

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REVIEWS:

"A brightly colored, comic fantasia on cultural imperialism [...] Mr. Howze's intelligent, unruly and intermittently wonderful play is grounded in experience [...] There is much beauty in this abundance, and something deeply unsettling, too."

 The New York Times

CRITIC'S PICK! "Howze's exciting piece is a savage burlesque, a clear-eyed bouffon treatment of war."

 Time Out New York

10 BEST THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE YEAR! "Linguistically acrobatic and piercingly funny, Frontieres is a whip-smart modern burlesque that deserves a wider audience."

 New York Magazine

"A kaleidoscope of funny, absurd displays of humanity swinging, pendulum-like, between the mundane and the magical, the minuscule and the grand. One moment we are zoomed in: a child turning water from a leaking roof into a triumphant cup of tea. The next moment we are zoomed out: systemic exploitation of natural resources [...] Sometimes hilarious, sometimes utterly heartbreaking, the constant flickering between innocence and pain in this play's metronome."

 Bushwick Daily

Premiere Production: Fonteieres Sans Frontieres premiered at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, NY in March 2017 under the direction of Dustin Wills.