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FRAGMENTS
A multi media creation directed by Rene Migliaccio.
Ideology or myth consists of the deployment of signifiers for the purpose of expressing and surreptitiously justifying the dominant values of a given historical period. - Roland Barthes
The androcentric fallacy, which is built into all the mental constructs of Western civilization, cannot be rectified simply by "adding women." What it demands for rectification is a radical restructuring of thought and analysis which once and for all accepts the fact that humanity consists in equal parts of men and women and that the experiences, thoughts, and insights of both sexes must be represented in every generalization that is made about human beings. - Gerda Lerner “The Creation of Patriarchy”
Fragments is a multi-media production which examines the founding myths of western culture of male/female relationship as it is manifested in women struggling against patriarchal social conditions. It explores women’s suffering and the resulting externalization of violence in tragic times - the times of Greek society – to an internalization of violence in modern times. This concept is experienced through deconstructed monologues of five female characters (all played by a single performer) from the European canon of dramatic literature: Klytemnestra (Aeschylus), Medea (Euripides), Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare), Miss Julie (Strindberg) and Blanche Dubois (Tennessee Williams).
This project originated during Rene Migliaccio’s MFA graduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. His Professor Bob McGrath, Artistic Director of Ridge Theater writes about the project: “Your adaptation and direction of "Tremors of Love" is singular and outstanding. Your talents as a creative force in the theater are truly impressive. The media you created is stunning.”
Fragments has four distinct aesthetic components which interact simultaneously:
1) Two female actors: one which representing all the dramatic female characters cited earlier, and the other representing the cultural, historical, social and psychological perceptions of reality and truth as it relates to the feminine entity, through texts by authors such as (to name a few): Carol Gilligan, Kate Millet, Helene Foley, Sue Allison, Kaja Silverman, and Gerda Lerner.
2) A female butho dancer who represents the feminine forces in their primal state.
3) Patriarchal forces and the projection of images. The scrims/screens will: 1) define and limit the space within which the dancer, on stage, struggles with and finally finds her liberation from, and 2) create the space within which male characters interact with the female characters on stage.
4) An original score and a texturing of voices of the stage.
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