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JESSICA MITRANI
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Some Historic / Some HystericSome Historic / Some Hysteric
Synopsis:
Some Historic/Some Hysteric visits the nexus of desire and madness. The multimedia theater piece, part-entertainment, part-exposition, uses a 19th century method for examining hysteria as the departure point of its theatrical conversation. French psychiatrist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot uses his patients in a Parisian asylum for case studies in hysteria. Under the doctor's discretion, patients perform in his lecture/demonstration's, isolating and acting out aspects of their disease for a curious audience. Nemeth and Grossman refer to the photographic documentation of these lectures and they stretch the imagery to pull beauty from the grotesque. A stark black and white set enhances the claustrophobia of emotional distress and brief flourishes of red costume pulse through the tableaux. A woman cries from the podium of a giant high-heeled shoe as a patient gesticulates silently from a spinning bed; a parade of characters including Freud and Saint Francis of Assisi appears, larger than life on video, reacting to the
Notes:
conceived by Ildiko Nemeth And Jessica Mitrani
1st Produced:
CSV Cultural Center 2006
Organisations:
New Stage Theatre Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
multimedia theater piece
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 10 Other: -
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