TAPESTRY NEW OPERA presents Bound to Create Theatre's Phaedra's Lust as part of their NEW OPERA SHOWCASE, March 25th, 2012 at 7pm. FOR TICKETS visit www.tapestrynewopera.com
The story of Phaedra has been debated for over 2000 years: a woman struck by an obsessive lust and passion for her son Hipploytus. Using dramatic texts, an original soundscape, and a new operatic score, this non-linear experimental physical theatre piece melds various performing arts mediums’ to help express the deep emotions and passions of the story of Phaedra while also looking at it through a unique perspective; that of the inner workings of Phaedra’s mind at the moment she is struck with the instant passion for her son, which later, becomes her downfall.Created by Lauren Brotman and Jack Grinhaus with the company
Directed by Jack Grinhaus
Performed by Kaleb Alexander, Lauren Brotman, Derek Kwan, Andrew Loder and Jamie Maczko
Sound Composition by Romeo Candido
In September 2011, the company began creation of the project and presented an excerpt at the LABCAB Festival on the Adelaide Staircase at Factory Theatre.
"Fab LabCab"" ... Bound to Create Theatre’s Phaedra’s Lust made more erotic use of the steps under Jack Grinhaus’s direction. Drawing on several sources (Seneca, Racine and Sarah Kane) to retell the classical Greek story of forbidden love, the excerpt featured Lauren Brotman as Phaedra and a trio of men (Kaleb Alexander, Andrew Loder and Jamie Maczko) as variations on Hippolytus, the stepson she desires. The action moved up and down the staircase, and it was exciting to have all that passion, in both text and movement form, spilling over the central railing to the audience sitting opposite." - Jon Kaplan, Glen Sumi: NOW LabCab Wrap-Up.
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Phaedras_Lust-10656.aspx
