Featuring showings of new pieces by Austene Van, in collaboration with Peter Rothstein and Sanford Moore, and Sally Wingert, in collaboration with Transatlantic Love Affair.
Monday, June 29, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Once Upon a Time, developed by Austene Van
directed by Peter Rothstein
musical direction by Sanford Moore
Cast: Austene Van*, Shá Cage*, and Dennis Spears*
Inspired to leave a legacy for young women worldwide, the legendary Josephine Baker begins to write her final and most colorful autobiography on the last day of her life. As she sifts through carefully crafted fairy tales of her magical life, she is confronted by shadows baring some truths and challenging certain myths.
Emilie/Eurydice, developed by Sally Wingert with Transatlantic Love Affair
directed by Isabel Nelson
Ensemble: Sally Wingert*, Heather Bunch, Derek Lee Miller, Eric Nelson, Adelin Phelps, Natalie Remus, Allison Witham
Musician: Joanna Harmon
The showing for Emilie/Eurydice is the result of thirty hours’ rehearsal-based research and development by the ensemble into the myth of Eurydice, the myth of Demeter, and Emilie Gossiaux’s story as told on the Radiolab episode “Finding Emilie.” In particular, we have investigated the idea of a “nether” or other world and its performance using the convention of a Greek chorus. We have also explored themes of ambiguous loss: if your loved one is lost-but-not-lost (e.g. in a coma, as in Emilie’s story), how do you negotiate the often-overlapping spaces of grief and hope? How does this manifest in physical ritual, in our relationships with each other, in the act of waiting? When life is on pause, how does life go on?
Though the material you will see this evening does not yet form a cohesive whole, our hope is that it will provide a jumping-off point for future exploration and full production.
* Member of Actors’ Equity
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