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# Jurassic Park Becomes Whimsical Performance Art
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/jurassic-park-the-musical-human-resources/
- Published: 2019-08-07T11:01:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:43:55.000Z
- Description: Jurassic Park: The Musical will feature video, puppetry, moving sculpture, songs, tap-dancing, and blood (presumably fake).
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, California, Events, Human Resources, Los Angeles, Paul Pescador, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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“Jurassic Park: The Musical” (Image Credit: Paul Pescador)

Hubris is a timeless dramatic motif explored through centuries of theater and literature. From Sophocles’s *Oedipus Rex* to Faust to Frankenstein, the tragic trope of humans flying too close to the sun is evergreen. Artist and performer Paul Pescador gives his own idiosyncratic take on the theme with [*Jurassic Park: The Musical*](http://humanresourcesla.com/event/jurassic-park-the-musical/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

In three acts, Pescador chronicles his own experience as a precocious third-grader trying to convince his teachers and classmates to mount a stage production of the well-known Michael Crichton book, itself a Frankenstein-ish tale about overly ambitious scientists. Somewhere between that school play he longed to stage and avant-garde performance art, *Jurassic Park: The Musical* will feature video, puppetry, moving sculpture, songs, tap-dancing, and blood (presumably fake). As with his previous DIY performances and films, Pescador draws on his large collection of cheap store-bought props, fabrics, masks, and other found objects to create a world that is at once mundanely familiar yet strangely absurd. This performance is part of a larger project titled *The Visitors* about growing up in the California Desert.

**When:** Friday, August 9–Sunday, August 11, 8pm nightly  
**Where:** Human Resources (410 Cottage Home, Chinatown, Los Angeles)

*More info at* [*Human Resources*](http://humanresourcesla.com/event/jurassic-park-the-musical/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*