ISIS-CHERNOBYL

May 25-27, 2012

railway underpass, Housatonic , MA

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Where a lover’s body is broken apart and nearly brought to life again, where a spell is sung and woman becomes a bird, where clowns of the underworld celebrate the eros of dying, and a search for fertility in the dark yields precious yet uncertain fruit.  Isis-Chernobyl was Prema's first site-specific, collaboratively devised play: a fusion of the Egyptian Isis-Osirus myth with the story of Chernobyl, imagining a post-apocalyptic paradise. 

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Directed & Composed by Pooja Prema

     

Ensemble:

Hector Rivera

Jordan Frye

Kristen Nash

Meg Agnew

Nancy Rothman

Robert Allen

Sarah Hardcastle

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Original Cello Score by Francis Morris & Gabrielle Senza

 

Found-Video Montage: Joe Wheaton

Stage Design:  Adam Medina

Lighting Design: Justin Delsignore

Stage Manager: Amanda Roe-Van Allen

Costumes: George Veal

Prop Design: Lisa Meyers

Uncertain-Teas: Katharine Novick

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Audience Care-Taking Ensemble:

Amelia Wolf, Elizabeth Blackshine, Mary Campbell, Adam Medina, 

Hillary Melville, Katharine Novick & Chloe Piazza

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Photography: Ned Oliver, Joe Wheaton