interspecies performance - Orestea

[Hélène Beauchamp]

Orestea a été présenté au Festival de Théâtre des Amériques à Montréal en 
1997
Texte de / Written by Eschyle / Aeschylus
Mise en scène de / directed by Romeo Castellucci
Societas Raffaello Sanzio

Apes and donkeys, actors chosen for their beauty or their ugliness, bizarre 
plumbing from which showers of blood gush forth... The aesthetic treatment 
to which Orestes is subjected to by Italy's most controversial director is 
radical. Under the direction of Romeo Castellucci, the tragedy becomes a 
nightmare, attaining both a cruel beauty and a heretical strength, balancing 
on the razor edge between extreme sophistication and brute force. Antonin 
Artaud and Francis Bacon serve as protective figures, Lewis Carroll's rabbit 
comments on the action, and this waking dream reveals the implacable logic 
of the great Greek texts.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alvina Ruprecht" <aruprech at CCS.CARLETON.CA>
To: <CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA>
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: interspecies performance


> Hello, this is not a recent performance but Romeo Castellucci, an italian 
> theatre director who was associate director of the Avignon Festival last 
> summer 2008  , created his own version of the Orestaia  using naked 
> deformed human beings interacting with goats and dogs and other mammals on 
> stage moving about in a green slimy light, the UHRschleim of the world as 
> it came into being  through this founding text.  Most of the text was 
> grunts and groans and electronic rumblings. I am sure there is a DVD of it 
> somewhere..
> Alvina Ruprecht..
> --------------------------------------
>> Yes, it's great to see the subject go viral.
>>
>> Also, the productions of my play "Swimming with Goldfish," in Edmonton 
>> and Calgary featured a live goldfish as a main character.  It was a non 
>> speaking role.
>> Here's a bit of background:
>>
>> http://allanboss.shawwebspace.ca/pages/view/swimming_with_goldfish/
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> allan . . .
>>
>> --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Aida Jordao <a.jordao at UTORONTO.CA> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: Aida Jordao <a.jordao at UTORONTO.CA>
>>> Subject: Re: interspecies performance
>>> To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
>>> Received: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:39 PM
>>> Hi Ric,
>>> I agree that the response has been great for this -- your
>>> student is on to something!
>>> My modest addition is to suggest looking at shows with
>>> dolphins, whales and seals. I like marine life...
>>> Did Girl in the Goldfish Bowl have a goldfish??
>>> Aida
>>>
>>> Quoting Ric Knowles <rknowles at UOGUELPH.CA>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Whew! I've never seen such a response--public and
>>>>
>>> private, serious  and whimsical--to a notice I've
>>> posted on Candrama. There were too  many to acknowledge
>>> individually, but thanks to everyone for their  many
>>> and several thoughts. With luck this opens up a whole area
>>> for  further inquiry--and a new liveliness on Candrama
>>> as well!
>>>
>>>> Thanks all (and please don't consider this an
>>>>
>>> invitation to stop  sending messages!),
>>>
>>>> Ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Professor of Theatre Studies
>>>> University of Guelph
>>>> Guelph, Ontario, Canada
>>>> N1G 2W1
>>>>
>>>> ph: 519-824-4120, x52931 (w)
>>>> FAX: 519-824-0560
>>>> email: rknowles at uoguelph.ca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>
>>
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