Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty

Dan Graham with Tony Oursler, Rodney Graham, Laurent P. Berger, Huber Marionnettes, Japanther
Artistic Direction: Sandra Antelo-Suarez
Art Basel - Miami Beach, Miami. 2004 - Weiner Festwochen, Vienna. 2005 - Deutsche Staatsoper, Unter den Linden, Berlin. 2005 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 2006
Production: TRANS>
Co-production: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Foundation 2021, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Voom/LAB, New York.

Conceived by: Dan Graham
Visual Conception and Videos by: Tony Oursler
Installation, and Set Design: Laurent P. Berger
Live Band, Live Music: Japanther (Matt Reilly & Ian Vanek)
Recorded Music: Rodney Graham
Script Adaptation: Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Teresa Seeman and Sandra Antelo-Suarez
Script Editor: G. Roger Denson
Marionettes: Philip Huber from Huber Marionettes and Company
Pupeteers: Michael Carolan, Sarah Frechette, Daniel Luce, Kenneth Berman Executive Producer: Miguel Antonio Roca
Production Manager: Valentin Essrich
Stage Manager: Matt Tierney
Sound Designer: Bruce Odland
Light Design / Video Operator: Urs Schönebaum
Props Designer: Eugene Tsai
Costume Design: Carlos Soto
Photography: Todd Eberle
Marionette Drawings: Marie-Paule Macdonald
Puppet Costume Design: Sandra Antelo-Suarez, Claire Pauley and Dan Graham
Puppet Costume maker: Sarah Frechette
Theme Song "Don't Trust Anyone over Thirty" by Rodney Graham

Envisioned as a genuine satiric history of the hippy generation and the end of the psychedelic era, the opera's tragi-comic narrative is the "reductio ad absurdum" of the hippies "generational politics" contained in the 1960s youth slogan: "Don't trust anyone over thirty". DTAOT is staged in a 50-minutes show, presented in a small theater built for the occasion, which involves both a puppet show, a punk concert and video projections.