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Released: 14 Nov 2018
Noam Shapiro, director
Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, scenic design
Tamrin Goldberg, choreography
Haydee Zelideth, costume design
Reza Behjat, lighting design
Yana Birÿkova, projection design
The Little Prince (Rachel Portman)
This team reimagines The Little Prince as a modern migration story. As a group of migrants waits at the U.S. border, a father calms the children by recasting their dangerous journey as the intergalactic travels of the Little Prince, transforming their interactions with smugglers, officers and aid workers into encounters with strange grownups and resplendent beasts in a world without borders.
Victoria Crutchfield, director
Bryce Cutler, scenic design
Nina Bova, costume design
Mary Ellen Stebbins, lighting design
Kevan Loney, video design
María de Buenos Aires (Astor Piazzolla)
María — the central character in a tale of seduction, prostitution and sexual abuse, as told by the goblin-storyteller El Duende — is placed in a transparent box, representing the prison of the male gaze. Upon María’s death, the box breaks open and mirror panels split, revealing mirrors beyond mirrors. María begins to discover herself. But El Duende drags her back into the box and forces her to give birth to a daughter, who will become another María.
Marcus Shields, director
Ryan Howell, scenic and costume design
Oliver Tidwell Littleton, lighting design
The Rape of Lucretia (Benjamin Britten)
This production is a contemporary reading of The Rape of Lucretia, with theatrical construction that engages with the formality and brutality of the subject matter. The space is a blank room with four benches, a collection of objects (both symbolic and practical), and two flower beds. Though functionally abstract, the room, through its antiseptic architectural and textural qualities, references an art gallery, a scientific laboratory and a shrine of memory. The theatrical language is dual: at times rigorously illustrating the actions of the text and at other times bending toward an image-based, symbolic interpretation of the events.
Shadi Ghaheri, director and choreographer
John Bondi-Ernoehazy, scenic design
Mika Eubanks, costume design
Samuel Chan, lighting design
Yaara Bar, projection design
Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
This production of Tosca focuses on political prisoners who live under political oppression in their home countries — where religion is weaponized to arrest, execute and destroy people who believe in love, freedom and justice. It’s the story of a group of Iranian actors who are risking their lives to perform Tosca, as they know their government will not allow such stories to be told and heard.