Provenance / written and performed by Ronnie Burkett.Provenance / written and performed by Ronnie Burkett.
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Auteur
Titre
Provenance / written and performed by Ronnie Burkett.
Édition
1st ed.
Description
ii, 79 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Sommaire
Provenance follows the story of Pity, a young Canadian art student who undergoes a courageous and compelling search for beauty. Tender, the object of her affection, is a mysterious boy who has been rendered in a painting, and concealed for a century. It is a quest for beauty that becomes a journey through the grotesque, leading Pity to a brothel in Vienna. There, she meets a series of marionette-prostitutes, a roller-skating monkey named Plato, and Leda, the madam of the brothel. As Pity seeks the beautiful to desire it, embrace it and become it, those around her seek to possess it, conceal it, and even destroy it. Ronnie’s well-known command of the marionettes will be complimented by the use of his latest innovations, taking puppetry to a new level of theatrical daring. Provenance will feature the world’s most elaborate and provocative puppetry in a story that is funny, compelling, erotic, and haunting.
Production
Co-production with BITE (London, UK), CanStage (Toronto, Canada), Melbourne International Arts Festival (Melbourne, Australia), Queerupnorth (Manchester, UK) and Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria).
First public performance : Theatre Network, in October, 2003, Edmonton (Alberta).
ISBN
0887547885
Sujets
Caractéristiques
Men
Cote
D B959pr 2005
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