Cutting edge theatre

This thread is to try and spark a conversation about any cutting edge new theatre that people may be aware of. We have all seen plenty of plays that are just done, tired, or lacking in any artistic merit often simply because they're performed within the standard confines of mass perception. Is there anything which you've heard of or seen that has struck you as outside the norm to which most theatre conforms?

I'll say I've heard of one show that has since been shut down/stopped production. A couple of my friends went to see this piece called "I'm Going To Kill The President" when it came to Kalamazoo. They cite this play as the most ground-shaking, pissed-my-pants experience ever. It basically involved this travelling troupe gathering an audience at a random location only revealed to people about an hour prior to the show. They audience meets with the MC sort of figure and he leads them to another location where the show is actually performed- usually an unoccupied warehouse or other discreet location. Upon getting there the audience is made to endure a few dozen minutes of essentially lame political satire, improv, and slapstick amateurism. Then one of the actors asks for an audience member's cell phone and when they get one, they dial the White House hotline and scream into the phone something to the effect that "I've had enough and in an hour, I'm going to kill the president!" (Mind you this was in the Bush Jr. era). The audience doesn't really know how to react and the audience member gets his/her back. The show resumes as before. Within 10 minutes the impromptu theatre gets stormed by FBI/Homeland Security/Police forces and the performers and audience are held against their will and to task for a terrorist threat telephone call which was traced to their location. Inevitably, the audience breaks down, my friends said a bunch of the people were weeping from fear. After an extended period of being treated like shit by the authority figures and having arrested both the audience member who lent the phone and the performer who made the threat, it is reavealed to everybody that they're all actors and the "arrested" people return, show ends, curtain call with smiling faces on the authorities. In essence, normal people are directly confronted with the confines of post-9-11 America and the reality of the Patriot Act.

So post away about anything that is relevant to evolving what we know theatre to be including any new works that you may have written. Peace!