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Each week I endeavor to list new performance art productions opening around the Twin Cities. With such an abundance of companies and venues in the area, keeping track of openings can be a challenge. I'm almost certain to miss a few, but I'll link whatever I can find. Provided descriptions are reprinted from production websites.
August 27th
Red Letter Theater: Phaedra’s Love
Phaedra's Love is Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to a reclusive life. Emotions, love in particular, and need of any type are an unbearable threat to him. His uncontrollable sexual impulse, which would otherwise draw him into contact with others, must express itself in masturbation and the humiliation of his sexual partners. Phaedra, his stepmother, is desperately in love with him. Her drive to submit herself to the impossibility of her desire, to lose herself within it, is the opposite of Hippolytus. Phaedra's longing for Hippolytus forms the second of the twin impulses that move this contemporary royal family towards a violent destruction. First debuted at the Gate, London in 1996, this is the play's regional premiere. Warning: This play contains graphic content. Not for the theatrically faint of heart. Runs at Bryant Lake Bowl through 08/30.
- from Red Letter Theater
August 28th
Southern Theater: Sopranorama – An Evening of Musical Bon-Bons
A music lovers’ delight! Back again for two weekends, Janis, Maria and Molly combine their unique vocal stylings to bring you yet another all-new wildly entertaining evening of song. Timeless classics collide with popular standards as these tantalizing trillers continue to show audiences why they are truly “divas of a different feather.” Dan Chouinard returns on keyboards and accordion and Vern Sutton directs this all-star cast. Runs through 09/06.
- from the Southern Theater
For previous performance arts openings -
August 16th – August 22nd: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2009m8d12-Weekly-performance-art-openings-081609082209
August 9th – August 15th: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Weekly-performance-art-openings-080909--081509
August 2nd – August 8th: http://www.examiner.com/x-1348-Twin-Cities-Performance-Art-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Weekly-performance-art-openings-August-2nd--August-8th
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