About the Show
Eva is a Temporary Distortion production, presented as part of the New York International Fringe Festival (August 8th – August 24th, 2003)
A highly abstract yet semi-biographical study of two women named Eva: this performance explores the inner thoughts of their tragic lives, cut short through brain cancer for one, and through suicide for the other.
Sculptor and Painter Eva Hesse immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1939 with her parents and sister, narrowly escaping the horrors of the concentration camps that killed many of her family members. But in the midst of a successful career as an artist, Hesse died of brain cancer at the age of 34.
Eva Braun was the mistress, and in her last day, the wife, of one of the most infamous men in the history of the world, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third German Reich. On April 30, 1945 she bit into a thin glass vial of cyanide and died at her husband’s side. She was later doused with gasoline and burned.
Schedule
MON, 8/11@10:30
TUES, 8/12@8:15
TUES, 8/19@5:15
WED, 8/20@7:30
