King Lear
Tell me my daughters...which of you shall we say doth love us most?
Eleusis Collective’s production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear was a site-specific and promenade production where audience and actors traveled together through a rural Iowa farm just after the 1980s farming crisis. Installed in an industrial Chicago farm and fueled by an original singer-songwriter score, this political rendering of Lear looked at the play through the eyes of the daughters and asked: how can we free ourselves of our societal coding and simply connect?
Performances took place in partnership with Read/Write Library, Patchwork Farms, and The WasteShed.
Featuring Debbie Baños, Deanalís Resto, Peter Ash, Heather Jencks, David Dowd, Ray Rehberg, Charlie Mann, Mark Huddle, Zoe Sjogerman, Gabe Fries, Eliza Fichter, and Henry Bolzon
Music written and performed by Ira Ochs, Ally Subak, and Julie Jurgens
Directed by Claire K. Redfield
Stage Management by Lindsey Marsland and Melinda Kraus-Perrotta
Assistant Director/Dramaturgy by Mariana Green
Dramaturgy by Claire Alston
Fight Choreography by Scott Fenstermaker
Community Engagement by Jessica Alldredge
Verse Nursing by Joe Feliciano
Production Management by Melinda Kraus-Perrotta
Marketing by Zoe Sjogerman
Sound Design by Julie Strassel
Lighting Design by Coriander Mayer
Costume Design by Angela Tabachik
Set and Props Design by Betsy Zacsek and Juneer Kibria and Mariana Green
Photography by Sebastian Orr Photography 2016
Eleusis Collective’s production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear was a site-specific and promenade production where audience and actors traveled together through a rural Iowa farm just after the 1980s farming crisis. Installed in an industrial Chicago farm and fueled by an original singer-songwriter score, this political rendering of Lear looked at the play through the eyes of the daughters and asked: how can we free ourselves of our societal coding and simply connect?
Performances took place in partnership with Read/Write Library, Patchwork Farms, and The WasteShed.
Featuring Debbie Baños, Deanalís Resto, Peter Ash, Heather Jencks, David Dowd, Ray Rehberg, Charlie Mann, Mark Huddle, Zoe Sjogerman, Gabe Fries, Eliza Fichter, and Henry Bolzon
Music written and performed by Ira Ochs, Ally Subak, and Julie Jurgens
Directed by Claire K. Redfield
Stage Management by Lindsey Marsland and Melinda Kraus-Perrotta
Assistant Director/Dramaturgy by Mariana Green
Dramaturgy by Claire Alston
Fight Choreography by Scott Fenstermaker
Community Engagement by Jessica Alldredge
Verse Nursing by Joe Feliciano
Production Management by Melinda Kraus-Perrotta
Marketing by Zoe Sjogerman
Sound Design by Julie Strassel
Lighting Design by Coriander Mayer
Costume Design by Angela Tabachik
Set and Props Design by Betsy Zacsek and Juneer Kibria and Mariana Green
Photography by Sebastian Orr Photography 2016
