Where’s my Flying Car!?! – Reflections in Silver Spandex

When Missie walked on to the stage I saw a shy woman, slight build and…well…the silver onsie is hard to ignore. But then she spoke and I was captivated by her confidence and poise. Missie is a spoken word poet, so this performance is, as you would expect, a collection of spoken word poems. She ties them all together with a suitcase filled with dates, both in the future and the past. She speaks about her religious upbringing, sneaking her dad’s sci-fi books as a kid and how this all tied in to her vision of what today should look like.

By jumping back and forth in time she creates a commentary on the good and the bad of our ever-evolving technologies. She is outraged at the lack of promised technology from shows like Back to the Future, Star Trek and Space Odyssey, but excited about inventions yet to come.

The lighting was used to move between scenes and decades, and really adds to the feeling of being in the future or past. She creates interesting characters like robot cashiers, techno-anthropologists and humans who have been cybernetically enhanced. Some of the stories are sad, others hilarious, and some just downright thought-provoking.

I’m not entirely sure how to do this performance justice. It’s really not your grandma’s poetry! But do go and see it, I promise a wide breadth of emotional experience.