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Written and directed by Lee Breuer music by Ushio Torikai puppetry direction by Basil Twist RED BEADS is a visually stunning and aurally haunting fable evoking the dreamscape of Edgar Allan Poe's dark and windswept world. The story is based on a Siberian folktale in which a girl is promised her mother's necklace of 13 red beads on her 13th birthday. The daughter's ascension to womanhood and her mother's corresponding demise is marked by a to-the-death battle with the mother swelling to a witch-like sentinel at the portal of womanhood and the girl clinging to her red beads. RED BEADS teams Breuer with Japanese composer Ushio Torikai, who draws inspiration for the opera from choral music by Japanese nuns, and puppeteer Basil Twist, who began his exploration of puppets-and-the-elements with water in Symhonie Fantastique and here relies on the air itself to bring his puppets alive. |
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| The production was first developed for stage in workshop
at Red Beads premiered at the Skirball Center New York, NY 2005 For more information go to Mabou Mines or www.redbeads.info |
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Red Beads
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