interspecies

[Leslie Barcza]

Which if any of the following count as interspecies?
-human portraying animals
-animals portraying animals
-animals portraying humans (thinking chimps in human clothing that I saw on Saturday morning TV)
-puppets manipulated by humans to portray animals
-objects within the design (projections, shadows, props etc) suggesting non-human or animal
-cyborg (part human, part machine): including anyone reading this on a blackberry
-fantastic/demonic creatures (for instance, the wall-walking demons in Lepage's Damnation de Faust, and a very literal ride to the abyss)

Can't wait for Lepage's Nightingale (likely including at least one of the above), coming up soon in Toronto @ the COC.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGu_mwN8v3A 

Leslie Barcza

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Discussing his unconventional and provocative theatre company Societas
Raffaello Sanzio, Romeo Castellucci argues, “the pre-tragic western
theatre tradition has been completely forgotten, cancelled, erased….for
westerners, theatre was born as God died.  It is clear that the animal
plays a fundamental role in the relationship between theatre and God’s
death.  In the moment that the animal disappeared from the scene,
tragedy was born” (23-4).

Wes D. Pearce, 
Theatre Department
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