Screen Test is the award winning, devastatingly beautiful collision of video installation and rock show, conceived and directed by Rob Roth with the band Theo and the Skyscrapers. It began in 2004 at PS122 **with** several incarnations to its final version in 2008 at Abrons Art Center where it was captured on film. The film version premiered at The Museum of Art and Design in 2010.

Influenced by mythology, 1950s Hollywood, and the “War on Terror”, the entire performance investigates feelings of confusion and longing that drive the subject to transcend and escape the constructs of the physical world to become something sublime. With anger and humor, the performance raises questions of What is artificial? What is real? and what role fantasy plays in survival?

Screen Test won the “Live Design Excellence Award for Theater” and was chosen for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial Exhibition representing American Theater.

Directed by Rob Roth, Music by Theo and the Skyscrapers, Costumes by Todd Thomas, Lighting by Ben Kato, Set Design by Ready Set, Choreography By Vangeline.

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