Pelleas and Melisande

Cutting Ball Theater opens its 12th season with Maurice Maeterlinck’s seminal avant-garde play Pelleas and Melisande, in a new translation by Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose. In this mysterious fairytale of a play, which inspired musical works by Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Gabriel Faure, and Jean Sibelius, a beautiful young woman is found in the woods by a hunter who also happens to be a prince. He takes her to his castle and marries her, but the honeymoon ends when she falls in love with his younger brother. When the love triangle explodes, she wants to return to her own world, but can she? Melrose directs this nine-person production, featuring a musical score by composer Cliff Caruthers and choreography by Laura Arrington.