Tuesday, December 8th at 7:30 p.m. – Harris Theater
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Critics are raving about eighth blackbird’s new staging of Pierrot lunaire:
“The intense interaction of the players and Shelton turned this performance into a genuinely new way of looking at a 20th century musical icon.”
- Los Angeles Times
“Stage animals as well as outstanding chamber players, eighth blackbird perform with a freedom almost unheard of in their technically demanding repertoire. In Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, the musicians were integrated into the production and played their parts from memory – an uncommon delicacy.” - Sunday Telegraph (London)
“Choreographer Mark DeChiazza revitalized Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire in an intriguing new staging, successfully returning the prickly speech-song cycle to its expressionist musical theater roots.” - Musical America
“Pierrot remains a creepy, devilishly difficult, outré reflection of a decaying society, even nearly a century after its composition. That’s how this riveting performance played out—in a decadent cabaret setting with a mute Pierrot and a dancer interacting with the amazing Lucy Shelton, whose concept of sprechstimme leaned toward the speech-dominated ideal that Schoenberg asked for in his own recording of the piece.” - American Record Guide
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire has everything: feverish intensity, gallows humor and touching pathos. In this new production, director Mark DeChiazza uses movement and gesture to connect to the human core of this remarkable work. Dancer Elyssa Dole and soprano Lucy Shelton join the ensemble, and percussionist Matthew Duvall plays the title role!
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Student tickets only $10 with ID at the Harris Theater Box Office! 312-334-7777
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