Description
Cordelia, Mein Kind is a duet for film and live body; a personal exploration of a present-day Cordelia-like character revealed through language, physicality, image and film. Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, the piece combines original interviews (between a contemporary Cordelia and her father, a Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivor recently deceased who lived in ‘exile’ in the Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh), and other visual imagery, with a language that is gestural, poetic, direct and physical. The multiplicity of performance languages weave seamlessly together, creating a challenging and unique performance work.Cordelia, Mein Kind takes Cordelia’s silence as its starting point. It probes beneath the surface, exploding the silence to divulge a psychological inheritance and an emotional core linked to her father’s trauma – his history passed on to her - a history of exile and loss.
The Magnes by The Marsh is co-sponsored by Marianne and Herb Friedman.
Magnes by the Marsh is a partnership between The Marsh Theater and The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life presenting theatrical performances with innovative aspects of contemporary Jewish culture. This semi-annual program is co-sponsored by Marianne and Herb Friedman.
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