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In Performance: Mabou Mines’ Lucia’s Chapters Of Coming Forth By Day.

 

 

 

Mabou Mines‘ Lucia’s Chapters Of Coming Forth By Day
Wednesday, September 14 – Sunday, September 25, 2011
Tues-Sat @ 8PM – Sun @ 3PM
At 150 First Ave. 2nd Floor Theater (NYC)

Lucia’s Chapters explores the life and after-life of Lucia Joyce, the adored daughter of James Joyce. As a young woman in Paris, her life was filled with writers, artists and intellectuals. She was a dancer and a painter. Her father believed Lucia to be the true inheritor of his genius. While still in her twenties, her behavior grew erratic. Admitted to a mental hospital at age 27, Lucia spent the next fifty years in confinement, until her death in 1982.

This production imagines Lucia reflecting as she navigates through the afterlife searching for her final salvation. Haunted by a dark figure, Lucia struggles with memories of her family, her loves and her life as an artist. As her journey unfolds, Lucia’s unique role in the Joyce literary legacy is illuminated. Lucia’s Chapters reveals a brilliant yet deeply troubled woman who is, perhaps, ultimately best understood through her playful and startling appearances in her father’s final book Finnegans Wake. Aided by richly textured visuals and an evocative score, Lucia’s Chapters is an sensory experience.

Credits:

Lucia: Ruth Maleczech
Mr. Joyce: Paul Kandel
Set and Lighting Design: Jim Clayburgh
Music: Carter Burwell
Projection Design: Julie Archer
Choreography: J’aime Morrison
Costume Design: Meganne George
Additional writing: Lee Breuer

(Source – Mabou Mines Website)

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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