Creative Team
Composer
DAVID T. LITTLE
Libretto
ANNE WALDMAN
Story, Screenplay, and Film/Stage direction
MICHAEL JOSEPH MCQUILKEN
Executive Producer
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS
Executive Producer
THURSTON MOORE
Featuring
Starring (Film)
TIMUR & JENNIFER HARRISON NEWMAN (THE WOMAN)
Black Lodge Performers on Film:
Timur and the Dime Museum (Timur, Lead Vocals; Matthew Setzer, Guitar; Andrew Lessman, Drums; Daniel Corral, keyboard; David Tranchino, Bass Guitar) | Isaura String Quartet (Emily Call, Violin; Mads Falcone, Violin; Rita Andrade, Viola; Nadia Sirota, Viola (audio); Betsy Rettig, Cello.
Black Lodge Performers Live:
Timur and the Dime Museum (Timur, Lead Vocals; Matthew Setzer, Guitar; Andrew Lessman, Drums; Milo Talwani, keyboard; Hannah Dexter, Bass Guitar). Isaura Quartet (Emily Call, Violin; Mads Falcone, Violin; Laila Zakzook, Viola; ; Betsy Rettig, Cello.
DAVID T. LITTLE
ANNE WALDMAN
MICHAEL JOSEPH MCQUILKEN
About
Part film screening. Part industrial rock opera concert. Part immersive theater experience.
What does it take to face ourselves? Enter the darkness in search of something beautiful, transcendent. But be very careful what you need to know…
Drawing on the complicated mythologies of the surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Black Lodge uses dance, industrial rock, classical string quartet, and opera to take viewers through a Lynchian psychological escape room.
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.
Before experiencing Black Lodge, you are invited to step into the haunted world of BARDO, a liminal space between life and death where lost souls linger, awaiting passage to the next realm. In this immersive pre-show experience, you will confront your deepest secrets as you wander dark corridors amidst trapped shadows, tormented souls, and mystifying creatures, all bound to this otherworldly realm, in search of escape. Come dressed in your spookiest finery and prepare for unexpected encounters around every corner.
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January 11, 13,14, & 15 at 8:30 | January 12 at 5 pm | 70 Min at Village East by Angelika
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BARDO Creative Team:
Created and directed by Sandra Powers.
Produced by Beth Morrison Projects
Original Music by David T. Little.
Hosted by Jeffrey Damnit
Sindy Butz (butoh performer), Brittaney Talbot and Chad Wyszynski (shadow puppetry), Matt Bruce (psychic), Roger Frojas (hungry ghost), Deneen Melody (hungry ghost), Michelle LaVon (hungry ghost), Kent Jenkins (hungry ghost), Erin Maxick (nurse), Alison Stanley (nurse), Alec Anderson-Carrasco (confessions reader), Erica Malachowski (Artaud’s ghost), Michael Lanham (death), Olivia Xing (witch), Gary Cook (tormented writer), MaryKate Glenn (tormented writer), Keila Cone-Uemura (tormented writer), Prix de Beaute (burlesque), Cat Ravyan (page piercer), Pony Lee (page piercer), Darija Varnas (model), Megan Sutherland (model), Tiffany Brookefest (model), Tara Ozella (model) and Isaura String Quartet.
Support
Opera commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and the Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund for Opera.
Film commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, Opera Philadelphia, the Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund for Opera, David & Kiki Gindler, Charlotte Isaacs, and Thomas H. Platz with additional support provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Developed by Beth Morrison Projects, California Institute for the Arts, HERE Arts Center, and REDCAT. Additional production support provided by David & Kiki Gindler, Charlotte Isaacs, and Thomas H. Platz. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
