| Year and length: | 2024, 75’ (European premiere) |
|---|---|
| Text: | Richard Foreman |
| Direction: | Elizabeth LeCompte, Kate Valk |
| Created by: | The Wooster Group |
| With: | Niall Cunningham, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Andrew Maillet, Tavish Miller, Michaela Murphy, Guillermo Resto |
| Set design: | Elizabeth LeCompte |
| Sound design and music: | Eric Sluyter |
| Video design: | Yudam Hyung Seok Jeon |
| Light design: | Jennifer Tipton, Evan Anderson |
| Additional lighting: | David Sexton |
| Costumes: | Antonia Belt |
| Assistant director and stage manager: | Michaela Murphy |
| Additional sound and video: | Andrew Maillet |
| Sound and video technician: | Dan Dobson |
| Dramaturgy: | Matthew Dipple |
| Assistant to the directors: | Alessandro Magania |
| Technical director: | Tavish Miller |
| Production manager: | Aaron Amodt |
| Producer: | Cynthia Hedstrom |
| General manager: | Monika Wunderer |
| Surtitles translation and adaptation: | Matilde Vigna |
| Production: | The Wooster Group |
| Co-production: | piece by piece productions |
Theatre
The Wooster Group - Symphony of Rats
Description
A president of the United States is receiving messages by mysterious means, and he doesn’t know whether to trust them or not. In this new The Wooster Group production, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk, and composed by the company, Richard Foreman’s 1988 play is reimagined with a multi-layered sound and video score that draws from wide-ranging literary and cinematic sources, including William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, and Charlie Chaplin. Set in a spaceship/artist’s studio/gallery, this surreal production follows the president as he plunges into a series of encounters with otherworldly beings, among them a giant rat with a special message. Moving between the apocalyptic and the mundane, The Wooster Group considers how technology provokes the question: what does it mean to be human?