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Sat 25 MayStart times are 12:00 and 12:10 and 12:20 and 12:30 and 12:40 and 12:50 and 13:00 and 13:30 and 13:40 and 13:50 and 14:00 and 14:10 and 14:20 and 14:30 and 14:40
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The Unwritten Rules Director: Ellen Pye & Hannah Kamen
Location: Alexander Building Foyer
There's no such thing as 'normal', yet out in public most of us try our best to appear 'normal'. We do this by following the Unwritten Rules of social behaviour. What are these rules and what happens if we start to break them?
This audio-walk by Sound-Tracks Theatre asks you to take a moment to view your world a little differently. You will be given a 10 minute audio track that takes you on a walk through the street. |
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Sun 26 MayStart times are 16:30 and 18:30
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The Truth About Cake Director: Laura-Jayne Brown
Location: TS3 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
The meaning of life was deciphered. The apocalypse happened. In a now flooded world, a priest, a philosopher, a poet, a politician and a physicist find themselves drifting together on the ocean waves. Whilst surrounded by the vast mass of water, revelations of identity and the placement of blame seem ultimately trivial as they become aware that a scapegoat may never be found for their predicament. And so to pass the time whilst waiting to be either found or drowned, their discussion turns to the suddenly quite pertinent meaning of death and the ultimate discovery of the truth about cake.
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Sun 26 MayStart times are 17:00 and 19:30
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The Mythics Co-Directors: Alice Chalk, Samantha Theobald-Roe
Location: RS2 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
‘The Mythics’ involves a chorus of performers, working together using their voices and bodies to retell some of the most famous Greek myths and legends.
When people think of mythical tales they think of ferocious Gods and unbelievable heroes, but this production aims to hone-in on the inherently human aspects of these stories; the failures, struggles and successes of human beings whether they stole fire, braved the underworld for love, or flew too close to the sun.
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Mon 27 MayStart times are 17:00 and 19:00
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Coriolanus Presented by: Brite Theater
Director: Kolbrun Sigfusdottir
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Dramaturg: Gareth Morgan
Producer: Eloise Tong
How do we feel about servicemen? What does it mean to be a war hero? Can we salute servicemen for killing our enemies and still cry out for peace? How do servicemen feel about coming home? Coriolanus´s main themes of war-heroism, ethics, honour and love for one’s country are as current now as when the play was written and it is these themes we want to explore. Through devising from them and the characters in association with active servicemen we hope to learn something new about war, about peace and about heroism; but most of all about our own stand.
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Mon 27 MayStart times are 18:00 and 19:45
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HMS Rotten Apple Co-Directors: Becki Pantling, George Bradley
Location: RS2 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
A brand new devised musical, written by the cast and the Rotten Apple Orchestra, who will also appear in the show and accompany the performance. The show will be entertaining and energetic, and will build on the reception we got from last years' term three project Rotten Apple Express. |
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Tue 28 MayStart times are 16:00 and 19:00
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Awake Director: Beka Carter
Location: RS1 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
‘Awake’ is a punchy adaptation of Spring Awakening: one of literature’s most controversial and frequently banned plays. Although over a hundred years old, the play still resonates today with topical issues such as pubescent anxiety, sexuality, authority and education – to name but a few. The ensemble cast and I will work together to explore the play’s most prominent themes and scenes to create an edited revival of straight play, mixing it up and throwing it into the 21st century; Wedekind’s original characters fight back more than ever. ‘Awake’ promises to be rebellious, raunchy and real. |
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Tue 28 MayStart times are 18:00 and 19:30
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The Ugly DucklingCo-Directors: Ashleigh Oakes, Naomi Turner
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Based on the original Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, this is a piece of highly physical, mature story-telling, celebrating the triumphs and enduring the struggles of the duckling. A truly immersive, magical experience, and a contemporary, touching and funny rendition of the classic tale. |
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Wed 29 MayStart times are 17:00 and 18:45
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Empty Justice Co-Directors: Dan Smith, Nick Smith
Location: TS3 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Set in a courtroom that is unlike any seen before. Those on trial are succumbed to disorientation, hostility and injustice, as they fight for one memory that they can take into the afterlife.
“Empty Justice” is an autobiographical devised piece that is based on the concepts used in the manifestos of Tadeusz Kantor, most specifically his work on ‘Theatre of Death’. |
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Wed 29 MayStart times are 17:30 and 19:30
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The Good Life Author: W.J. Fairhead
Director: Helen Craig
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
The title of the play is an ironic one although that’s not to say that the play is rife with death, misery and melancholy—traits which seem to have become a requirement for modern theatre. This piece of new writing is set in 1950s America and so the wish for a ‘Good Life’ might well be associated with the American Dream. The achievement of a good life in this play, however, does not rely on money or fame but that age-old cliché: love. It’s a concept which has become diluted by social convention and familial pressures, and one which needs purifying. How love, or lust, as the more sceptical of you may believe, can undergo this treatment is where problems and (hopefully) comedy will ensue.
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Thu 30 MayStart times are 17:30 and 19:30
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Juke: A New Musical Director: Jordan Murphy
Location: RS1 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
Juke is a brand new and exciting musical written by Exeter drama students with songs from musicals ranging fom Sister Act to La Cage Aux Folles.
A family of four; the mother is a constant worrier and the father tries his best to keep the family together. The daughter is the brains of the family and falls in love with a boy from college. The son, a rebellious type but always tries to do his best by the family. Throughout the musical, the family experiences highs and lows caused by the daughter's terminal illness. Want to know what happens in the end?
We will be inviting voluntary donations of 50p per person to the Cystic Fibrosis trust. |
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Thu 30 MayStart times are 19:00 and 20:30
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Bitter Sweet Author: Kolbrun Sigfusdottir
Director: Kolbrun Sigfusdottir
Location: Rannoch, Thornlea
S: I’d do anything for you, you know that.
M: I don’t know that.
S: Well you should.
M: Even hurt me?
S: Yes.
M: Wound me?
S: If you’d like.
M: Leave me?
S: I’m trying.
M: Yeah, but do you want to? Do you want to leave me?
Two people are stuck. There was something that originally glued them together but it’s hard to remember just exactly what. They’re sure it wasn’t always guilt, wasn’t always fear.
Bitter Sweet is an original play by Kolbrun Sigfusdottir, performed by Charlie Bramald and Raquel Ruelas in the intimate setting of Rannoch, next to the Alexander Building.
With very limited seating we suggest you book your space and join us for an evening of trying to remember why you fell in love in the first place and how it got to this.
Viewers are advised there is some graphic violence in the show and foul language. |
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Fri 31 MayStart times are 16:30 and 18:00
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They Don't Let Us LiveCo-Directors: Pauline Miller, Dan O'Neill
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
On the morning of June 28th 1914 a young man fired two shots towards the heir-apparent of an empire he felt was oppressing his people. The bullets found their target and triggered a World War.
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Fri 31 MayStart times are 17:30 and 19:30
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Kitsune GamesDirector: Jonathan Daly
Location: RS1 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
When the Emperor of Japan falls deathly ill without a cause a gifted young girl prophesises his imminent downfall at the hands of a powerful black fox, whose disguised form lies within the Emperor’s very court. Thus the Emperor and his beloved courtesan Tamamo-no-mae send for the best warriors in all of Japan, Misura and Kazusa, to undertake the investigation to find the murderous creature. But however gifted Misura and Kazusa are in martial skill it is their wits that they must now deploy in finding a beast that could be anyone in a court filled with suspicions.
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Sat 01 JunStart times are 16:30 and 18:45
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Youtopia: The Musical Director: David Johnson
Location: RS1 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
So often the term ‘life-changing’ is used as a marketing ploy, but it is certainly a rather grand term for a diet plan, or some supposedly reliable product in an infomercial. But how often has the term ‘life-changing’ been used literally, and really meant it?
Never
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Until now!
Do not under any circumstances miss out on this life-changing opportunity to quite literally change your life forever! The ‘Youtopia correctional facility’ is here to offer you the answer to all of life’s problems: by removing all of them, permanently. Unquestionably the greatest scientific breakthrough known to man!
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Sun 02 JunStart times are 16:30 and 19:00
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The Rise and Fall of TedtopiaAuthor: Tom Milton
Co-Directors: Tom Milton,Will Underwood
Location: RS1 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
Produced by: Genevieve Skehan
Set in the immediate aftermath of a 1950s apocalypse caused by socialists, (probably) Ted, a clueless and casually rude young aristocrat wakes up to discover the world has ended and his home has been invaded by squatters. What follows is a ludicrous farce involving true love, attempted cannibalism, hard hitting political discourse, thrilling economic reform, tense courtroom drama and silly jokes as the survivors of the nuclear Armageddon come together to forge the new nation of... Tedtopia. Warning: may contain nationalism. |
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Sun 02 JunStart times are 17:30 and 19:30
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Red's Directing DebutDirector: Devon Cairns & Lucy Green
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
A comedic approach to a well-known Shakespeare plot, set in a fairy tale world where the Tortoise and the Hare try to put on a play by Red Riding Hood to raise money for the Three Little Pigs' orphanage. |
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Mon 03 JunStart times are 16:00 and 18:00
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Roborough Radio Presents: The Modern PrometheusCo-Directors: Harry Kingscott, Hannah Bradley
Location: TS3 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Almost too loosely based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
It’s 1924, the roaring twenties, the age of radio and a group of glamorous actors gather together to create a radio play of the original horror story, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, live, in front of an audience. Their only difficulty: they have no sound technicians, and therefore have to create all of the sound effects themselves, out of whatever they can find. |
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Mon 03 JunStart times are 17:00 and 19:00
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22 Tones of TealCo-Directors: Eleanor Alexander,Dora Lynn
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
A cross between 50 Shades of Grey and a traditional pantomime, featuring live music. |
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Mon 03 JunStart times are 17:00 and 19:30
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Punk Rock Co-Directors: Jamie Manton, Kath Darke
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
William Carlisle. The world at his feet. Its weight on his shoulders. Intelligent. Articulate. F*cked.
As the end of term approaches, a group of sixth-formers prepare themselves for the end of their school lives. But as the world begins to open up before them, they are faced with the very real danger that it could swallow them whole.
Described as "the History Boys on crack" , this blistering adaptation of Simon Stephens popular play confronts young people as they really are, and builds inexorably towards its tragic and violent climax.
This production, directed by Jamie Manton and Kath Darke, will use a Practical Aesthetic acting approach to get to convey the intense and raw themes of the play. |
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Tue 04 JunStart times are 16:00 and 18:00
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Politicians in Dressing GownsAuthor: Joshua B. Erlick
Director: Jessica Burrage
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Let us introduce the Politicians; Stephen Stewart, Margaret Lumbley, and Nicholas Andrews. With constantly changing manifestos and a perfect public face, they strive to make Britain a better place for you. A fictitious spin, ‘Politicians in Dressing Gowns’ gives us an insight into the unexpected comedic behavior of important figures when a dinner party takes a turn for the worst. With relatable (perhaps satirical) humour, our perception of class is questioned. After the antics of last night, will they still be respected by the British public? |
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Tue 04 JunStart times are 17:00 and 20:00
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RoboticDirector: Stuart Cottrell
Location: RS2 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except when such orders conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Every robot has these laws embedded into their programming. They are the rules of ‘Robot Nature’ that keep us completely safe.
Well...almost completely safe.
Because there are no laws protecting us from Human Nature.
And that means no one is safe.
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Wed 05 JunStart time: 16:00
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Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Anna Harpin
Revisiting the Puzzle Factory: Cultural Representations of Psychiatric Asylums
This paper seeks to sketch the multivalent ways in which asylum history is imagined in the UK and to consider the contribution such works make to the social history of madness. Firstly, I wish to linger over the politics of representation and ask what contemporary, and in particular popular, portraits of psychiatric history might reveal about mental health politics today. Secondly, I am concerned with the unofficial, even secret, patient histories of asylum life and how these narratives are finding cultural expression. I wish to examine how these portraits operate as quiet, counter-history to the dominant image of horror. In short, this article examines how and why we culturally remember asylum life.
Anna Harpin is a senior lecturer in theatre at the University of Exeter. Her research examines post war British and Irish theatre and film with particular interests in madness, trauma, and disability. She has recently published articles in Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, and Studies in Theatre and Performance. She is currently writing a monograph entitled Disordered: A Cultural History of Madness.
Sarah Goldingay
Performing placebo, performing pain: using Howard Barker's BLOK/EKO as a poetic lens to explore questions of chronic pain and healing in the 21st century.
Like the play, this paper asks could poetry replace medicine? In a despotic realm where all doctors are annihilated, BLOK/EKO offers the opportunity to think about the unthinkable, a world without medical interventions or analgesics. A world created to see if 'poetry kills the pain'. Using recent medical research on chronic pain, I'll ask what Barker's inversion of cultural norms might mean. And by asking what happens if poetry replaces medicine, I find that this idea is not as preposterous as it first appears.
Sarah Goldingay (MA, Ph.D Exeter) has more than 20 years award-winning experience as a creative industries practitioner. Her 2009 seven language, four continent international festival, 21 for 21, was described as a “breakthrough moment in international theatre making” (Telegraph). In 2011, for her work as Executive Producer with playwright Howard Barker, she was shortlisted for the THE Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts. As a lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, her research is interdisciplinary: using both traditional and practice-led approaches, she works with a range of practitioners and academics from humanities and sciences to investigate what the combined fields of performance, spirituality and medicine have to tell us about our 21st century identities.
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Wed 05 JunStart times are 17:15 and 19:15
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InsideDirector: Katie Beard
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Inside is a semi devised dark physical comedy depicting the life of a paranoid , caffeine addict film director.
His obsession over completing his latest piece of work has driven him into a llife of isolation, loneliness and regret. But what price is he willing to pay to create the perfect master piece? The story unravels with the input of a contempoary physical chorus, inviting the audience into the world of another. |
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Thu 06 JunStart times are 16:00 and 18:00
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A Magician's FarewellDirector: Joanna Tew and Harriet Brown
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Drawing on silent film style of Sylvain Chomet (director of Belleville Rendezvous) and influenced by Jacques Tati's The Illusionist, this is the story of a failing magician who re-finds his love for magic in the faith and belief of a young child.
Featuring puppetry and a dynamic physical performance. |
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Thu 06 JunStart times are 17:00 and 19:00
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The Importance of Being BritishDirector: Lucy Kinghorn
Location: RS2 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
2012: The year of the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics. 2012 appeared to put the ‘Great’ in Great Britain. But what does it mean to be British today? Is it the stereotypes of endless tea drinking, obviously knowing the royal family and a constant need to queue? Or is it in fact our rising unemployment, a lack of economic prosperity, a generation lumbered with a mountain of debt caused by a culture of greed? Times have certainly changed for Great Britain and the question is: is Britain still ‘Great’? Are you proud to be British? A tricky question considering this country has produced the likes of Shakespeare…and then thousands of rioters in 2011. Poking fun at the endless British stereotypes and making fun out of some of Britain’s most famous figures, ‘The Importance of Being British’ is a comedy that questions our national identity by looking at our past, and by looking to our future. |
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Fri 07 JunStart times are 15:30 and 17:30
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Kill the BeastCo-Directors: Georgia Posner, Lucy Hirst
Location: TS3 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Kill the Beast: A modern adaptation of Lord of the Flies, set in hospital confinement, after the outbreak of a deadly virus.
We witness the young characters rapidly disintegrate into savagery as the fear of infection drives them to breaking point.
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Sat 08 JunStart times are 16:30 and 18:30
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Wall PaperDirector: Tash Fardell
Location: TS2 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
Have you ever overheard that absurd conversation on the bus?
Listened in on that bit of gossip in the toilets?
Wall Paper is a semi devised semi scripted comical physical theatre piece based on overheard conversations.
Spanning many generations this piece employs snippets of overlooked dialouge to create a contrast between the ridiculous and harsh reality in our society. |
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Sat 08 JunStart times are 17:30 and 19:30
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The Most Detestable Tragedy of Lavinia Andronicus Director: Laura Baggs
Location: RS2 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
This re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus focuses on the brutal tragedy of Titus’s daughter, Lavinia. The all-female cast takes a stab at Shakespeare’s most bloody and macbre play to explore the barbarism and brutality that our civilised society claims to have left behind. Does our perception of violence change when these acts of bloodlust and revenge are portrayed through female bodies? Do we see rape, mutilation and murder differently when performed by women instead of men? Who speaks for the Lavinias of today who are too often silenced by acts unheard but still no less tragic. |
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Tue 11 JunStart times are 16:30 and 18:00
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BecauseDirector: Francesca Granger
Location: TS3 (Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Rd.)
A look at the sexual revolution through the use of dance and movement, using a soundtrack of Beatles songs, connected to the 'One Billion Strong' project. |
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Fri 14 JunStart times are 14:00 and 16:00
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Medea Material Manhattan MedeaDirector: Effrosyni Mastrokalou
Location: RS3 (Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road)
The project presents extracts from Heiner Müller's Medea Material and Dea Loher's Manhattan Medea. It is a post-dramatic framework that explores a mythopoetic dimension of a refugee, a barbarian, a victim and a perpetrator.
Heiner Müller and Dea Loher transpose Medea's myth, her struggle, her journey on to contemporary Germany and today's Manhattan.
Our aim is to psychophysically construct a 'synthetic fragment': Medea's myth / history through very personal responses. |
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