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CSV Cultural Center

2006

New Stage Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

multimedia theater piece

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Notes: conceived by Ildiko Nemeth and Jessica Mitrani

Synopsis: Some Historic/Some Hysteric visits the nexus of desire and madness. The multimedia theater piece, part-entertainment, part-exposition, uses a 19th century method for examining hysteria as the departure point of its theatrical conversation. French psychiatrist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot uses his patients in a Parisian asylum for case studies in hysteria. Under the doctor's discretion, patients perform in his lecture/demonstration's, isolating and acting out aspects of their disease for a curious audience. Nemeth and Grossman refer to the photographic documentation of these lectures and they stretch the imagery to pull beauty from the grotesque. A stark black and white set enhances the claustrophobia of emotional distress and brief flourishes of red costume pulse through the tableaux. A woman cries from the podium of a giant high-heeled shoe as a patient gesticulates silently from a spinning bed; a parade of characters including Freud and Saint Francis of Assisi appears, larger than life on video, reacting to the performance below them.
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