,,Pálína Jónsdóttir, an Icelandic actress, provided some welcome lightheadedness in "Cyber-Nut Bucolia,"

a transparent parody of Bjork”. Nate Chinen, New York Times

Still Life With Commentator

BAM Harvey Theatre NYC, UNC Chapel Hill NC, Kontrakom Festival Salzburg, Joe's Pub NYC,

There is a saying that history is the story told by the winners. Of course, when history explodes daily on high-definition flat screens, winning seems to take second place to telling. Still Life with Commentator fuses dramatic narrative, poetic lyrics, and musical performance to explore our mediated relationship to violence in a series of lyrical, darkly comic narratives punctuated by live video. As battles rage half a world away, on the home front a new kind of refugee emerges - the infogee- horrified by atrocity, and yet hungry for spectacle, forever lost in incessant web surfing, blogging and speculating. It's a scene in which we see ourselves, as reflected on a television screen, and we can never quite change the channel.  Artistically daring and morally courageous, Still Life with Commentator asks, are you watching yet? 

Composed by Vijay Iyer
Libretto by Michael Ladd
Directed by Ibrahim Quraishi
Set Design by Robert Pyzocha 
Lighting Design by Stephen Arnold  

Performers:
Guillermo E. Brown
Liberty Ellman
Okkyung Lee
Masa Nakanishi 
Pálína Jónsdóttir
Pamela Z  

Photos:
Ron Kiley

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