Persephone
Saturday, August 12 & Sunday, August 13
7:30 pm
Guild Hall
East Hampton, New York
Conceived, designed & directed by Robert Wilson. Featuring music by Philip Glass and Gioacchino Rossini, costumes by Christophe de Menil, and texts by Homer, Brad Gooch, and Maita di Niscemi.
Robert Wilson returns to Guild Hall with his enigmatic re-telling of the ancient Greek myth, Persephone.
Premiered at Guild Hall in 1995, Persephone is again brought to life with an international ensemble of multi-talented performers and artists from the Watermill Center, Wilson's laboratory for the arts and humanities in nearby Watermill, New York.
Please join us for this singular opportunity to witness Wilson's singular vision of betrayal, hope, and renewal.
My idea of theater & my way of working:
Director's notes from Robert Wilson
Often people ask me what my theatre is about: usually I say I do not know. My work is, in most cases, formal. It is not interpretative. To me interpretation is not the responsibility of the director, the author, or the performer: interpretation is for the public. I simply like to consider my theatre as the work of an artist. My interest is the same for the movement, the word, the light, the sound, the images. I am convinced that theatre is the place where all the different forms of art can meet. And in this coexistence there is room for music, dance, and acting.
I have always been interested in something between art and life. The performers of my works are not necessarily dancers and the training I request has to do with the execution of "easy" movements that have to be memorized on the basis of a simple arithmetic count: they are almost automatic movements. The behavior I want on stage is extremely formal, it does not have to be spontaneous. It must be seen at a glance as an artificial movement created for the theatre. The spontanteity comes in executing these precise movements.
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