A Mouthful of Birds
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 19, 2001
Closed Apr 22, 2001
Opened Mar 19, 2001
Closed Apr 22, 2001
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Rebecca Taylor directs the New York premiere of Caryl Churchill and David Lan's A Mouthful of Birds. Inspired by Euripides' The Bacchae, the dance-theatre piece weaves together seven stories of separate contemporary lives to reveal those days when one is "possessed," still vulnerable to Dionysian influence. The god of wine and mirth gets under each character's cardigan, driving women to telekinesis, men into the arms of pigs, and everybody into fits of primal dance.
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Passion, possession, and obsession are primary themes in The Bacchae by Euripides. They also lie at the heart of Caryl Churchill and David Lan's A Mouthful of Birds, a dance theater piece that is a loosely constructed riff on the Greek classic. The production is currently being staged by the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company in rotating repertory with Charles Mee's The Bacchae 2.1.
Dionysus (Craig Yochem) enters in a see-through white skirt and a tattered flesh-colored body stocking. He performs a slow, balletic dance before disappearing off-stage. Then the production explodes into a flurry of activity: A woman with a lilting Jamaican accent (Heather Gillespie) answers continually ring[...]