 Event |
Life and Times: Episodes 1
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| Venue |
School of the Arts Drama Theatre, Singapore, Singapore |
| Umbrella Event |
Singapore Festival of Arts 2011 |
| First Date |
19 May 2011 |
| Last Date |
21 May 2011 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Part of a Tour |
Yes |
| Description |
With a stunning mix of conceptual strictness and overboard enjoyment, the young New Yorker Off-Off Broadway company Nature Theater of Oklahoma, under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, embark on their epic project - Life and Times. A musical, which starts out based on the story of one of their own company members, Life and Times, is the latest in the company's series of works dealing with oral traditions. For this project, director Pavol Liska posed sound designer Kristin Worrall a seemingly simple question: "Can you tell me your life story?". The resulting verbatim transcript of this original phone interview became the libretto for a musical unlike any other, as the company sings every word - including every "um", "uh", "oh" of the original phone conversation, raising what might be considered very mundane and ordinary life to the level of something truly transcendent. |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Music Theatre
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| Secondary Genre |
Verbatim Theatre
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| Subjects |
Life and Death
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
United States of America
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| Production Nationality |
United States of America
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Programme |
Singapore Arts Festival 2011 |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
211094 |
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