Leir Rex (1998)
Production
New York Performance Alliance and Shout in: Leir Rex (1998)
Leir Rex is an adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear" by Ernest Abuba, Shigeko Suga, and Richard Scanlon.
Leir Rex uses paramilitary costuming and opens with a scene of mass murder of women as an establishing scene, reminiscent of the rape and pillaging of Sarajevo. Instead of one Fool, there are two: the second videotapes everything on a camcorder to simulate the horror of how we carry out atrocities in the camera's eye, as a sort of vanity. Documentary footage from the Armenian, Khymer Rouge, Tibetan, and Warsaw Ghetto holocausts enlarge this point. The breakdown of society and regression to primitivity is indicated by the warriors' use of camouflage paint, warpaint, and tattoos.
press release
Leir Rex uses paramilitary costuming and opens with a scene of mass murder of women as an establishing scene, reminiscent of the rape and pillaging of Sarajevo. Instead of one Fool, there are two: the second videotapes everything on a camcorder to simulate the horror of how we carry out atrocities in the camera's eye, as a sort of vanity. Documentary footage from the Armenian, Khymer Rouge, Tibetan, and Warsaw Ghetto holocausts enlarge this point. The breakdown of society and regression to primitivity is indicated by the warriors' use of camouflage paint, warpaint, and tattoos.
press release
September 24 – October 11, 1998
English
PROD.1998.0047
Ernest H Abuba (adapter), Richard Scanlon (adapter), Shigeko Suga (adapter), Ernest H Abuba (director), Shigeko Suga (director), Ernest H Abuba (adapter), Richard Scanlon (adapter), Shigeko Suga (adapter), Ernest H Abuba (director), Shigeko Suga (director), Ernest H Abuba (performer), Richarda Abrams (performer), Don Arrup (performer), Purva Bedi (performer), Cindy Bonini (performer), Sarah Boughton (performer), Angela Dee (performer), Shauna Earp (performer), Jason Felipe (performer), Ian Gould (performer), Indelethio (performer), Alex Johnson (performer), Jodi Lin (performer), Ruth Moore (performer), Doug Olear (performer), Michael O'Connell (adapter), Stephanie Schmiderer (adapter), Mieko Seto (adapter), John Sharp (adapter), Yoshitaka Shimada (adapter), JuJu Stulbach (adapter), Shigeko Suga (performer), William Shakespeare (author), Yoshitaka Shimada (music), Steve Garner (lighting designer), Kaori Akazawa (set design), Andrew Bellware (sound), Sue Jane Stoker (contributor), Alex Endy (stage manager), Tom Colbath (contributor), Derivative Strategies (contributor), Ada Chau (contributor)
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