The Wooster Group
Symphony of Rats
novembernov 6 – 10
© Spencer Ostrander ©
© Keetja Allard ©
Friday november 6
19h
Saturday november 7
18h
Sunday november 8
15h
Monday november 9
19h
Tuesday november 10
19h
Direction Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk. Text Richard Foreman. Composition The Wooster Group. With Niall Cunningham, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Andrew Maillet, Tavish Miller, Michaela Murphy and Guillermo Resto. Set design Elizabeth LeCompte. Sound and music Eric Sluyter.
Video Yudam Hyung Seok Jeon. Lighting design Jennifer Tipton and Evan Anderson. Additional lighting David Sexton. Costumes Antonia Belt. Additional sound and video Andrew Maillet. Assistant director Michaela Murphy. Sound and video technician Matthias Neckermann. Dramaturgy Matthew Dipple. Technical direction Tavish Miller. Production management Aaron Amodt. Production Cynthia Hedstrom. General management and administration Monika Wunderer.
Production The Wooster Group
Co-commission piece by piece productions
Performances at La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers, as part of the Festival d’Automne à Paris, are supported by the AJT Fund, Cécile Winckler and The Frankie Shop.
La Commune, Centre Dramatique National d’Aubervilliers and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this performance in co-production.
With the support of
Past masters in the art of collage and multi-disciplinary montage, The Wooster Group, co-founded and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, has been a regular guest at the Festival d’Automne since 1999. Always at the forefront of scenographic techincal innovation, the American director is a major figure of the avant-garde, notably with her re-readings of classic texts.
In Symphony of Rats, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and co-founder of The Wooster Group Kate Valk, the New York company reinvents a piece by Richard Foreman dating back to 1988. Its narrative centres upon a megalomaniac American president who descends into madness. Perched upon his toilet-throne, he tunes into illusory extraterrestrial transmissions, whilst a series of surrealist images unfurls around him. Symphony of Rats is a reflection on the effervescence and topography of the group’s collective imagination: balls, songs, video, films, paintings and accessories recycled from former productions, and to which are now added the tools belonging to the birth of artificial intelligence. Far-reaching and conceived with the utmost precision, The Wooster Group assembles a succession of hallucinatory fragments in order to bring us a satirical science-fiction musical, based on power and madness.
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