Opening Date: April 7, 2005 Closing Date: April 10, 2005
Schedule:
Thursday 8:00pm / Friday 8:00pm / Saturday 8:00pm / Sunday 3:00pm
Eyeball Planet presents the American premiere of Jean Jacques Rousseau's play Narcisse, a masterpiece which the legendary philosopher wrote at the age of 18 years old. Narcisse has never been performed in the United States and will make its contemporary debut in a stunning, surrealistic and experimental production.
Narcisse
is an utterly contemporary drama that deals with the problem of
narcissism
and sexual ambiguity. The play is about a man who falls in love with an
image of himself dressed as a woman and explores contemporary issues of
desire, self-obsession and the difficulty of the relation between the
sexes.
This is the first collaboration of Eyeball Planet created in 2004 by director
Anne Deneys-Tunney, member of the Lincoln
Center Director's Lab. Narcisse is a resolutely exploratory and
experimental
production which combines an 18th Century English translation of
Rousseau's
play with contemporary music, modern dance and movement in order to
express
what Blanchot would calls Rousseau's extreme contemporaniety.
Special
Effects:
Music, video art, sound design, video projection. Appropriate for
kids
Features
new
songs by Dogbowl
