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When an artist’s visions rival her reality, she asks: Life? or Theatre?
Join Ars Mechanica as they experiment with Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theatre?, an immense, seemingly-autobiographical collection of paintings that depict a young woman’s artistic, familial, and romantic struggles. Salomon died in Auschwitz, but created her paintings before she was deported there. Her gouaches are often reduced to an anachronistic negation of suffering, a rebellion against the Nazi regime. They are much more than that.
Ars Mechanica invites audiences to witness the early stages of this production’s development by attending the culminating public performance of their two-week residency at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. Blending physical theatre, live music, magic effects and video projections, Ars Mechanica will present a collection of scenes that investigate the rivalry between Salomon’s history and her art.
Charlotte
May 2- May 5
Robert Gill Theatre, University of Toronto
Directed by Natalie Mathieson
Devised by Ars Mechanica including
Joe Culpepper, Sasha Kovacs, Natalie Mathieson and Vojin Vasovic
in collaboration with
Eric Beck Rubin, Amy Gottung, Shelley Liebembuk, and Molefe Mohamid-Mitchell, Dramaturgical Mentor: Bruce Barton
May 2-4 at 8pm ($10)
Sunday May 5 at 2pm (PWYC)
Robert Gill Theatre
214 College Street, 3rd Floor (use St. George St. entrance only)
Box Office:
416-978-7986
This presentation is made possible with support from the
Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
http://dramacentre.utoronto.ca/
For more information on Ars Mechanica visit: www.arsmechanicatheatre.com
2013-04-17
Toronto: Ars Mechanica presents “Charlotte” May 2-5 at the Robert Gill Theatre