Liminal will perform their next immersive installation, Marilyn Monroe contre les vampires, at Disjecta Gallery, 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland OR from 8-11 December. An operatic multimedia installation performance of a 1972 darkly comic play written by influential enfant terrible filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
A timely social satire, Phoebe Zeitgeist is a singing alien sent to Earth to give an eyewitness account of human democracy. However, Phoebe has a problem: she has learned our language, but she can't figure US out.Featuring Carissa Burkett (soprano) as Phoebe Zeitgeist, with Linda Austin, Evan Corcoran, Carla Grant, Wayne Haythorn, Eleanor Johnson, Don Kern, Alex Reagan,Danielle Ross, Todd Van Voris
Liminal combines theatre, film, and opera into a unique, immersive experience. A hybrid of theatre and gallery installation, there is no central stage and audiences are invited to walk through the performance as it takes place (seating is provided for those needing it). Merging live performance and video, the piece features both live and recorded performers: a ghostly ensemble of video actors projected onto screens moving throughout the space, interacting with each other, with Phoebe and with the audience to create a unique videoplay experience. Stagehands (or are they actors?) are busy creating a constantly shifting landscape of moving surfaces and layered dramatic possibilities within the environment.Performances will run as follows:
Thursday, December 8 at 7:30
Friday, December 9 at 7:30 & 9:30
Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 & 9:30
Sunday, December 11 at 5:30 & 7:30
For more information, visit liminalgroup.org
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