Event Information
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Thu31Oct2019
Triptych: Eyes of One on Another
7:30with Roomful of Teeth
Since their Celebrity Series debut on Stave Sessions in 2015, Roomful of Teeth has capitulated to rockstar status in the new music world. Come see Teeth's return in the first theatrical production of Triptych (Eyes of One on Another). In this new performance piece, music, poetry, and photography come together in a theatrical context, exploring the impact of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work on the lives and careers of composer and Cincinnati native Bryce Dessner (The National) and librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle. Mapplethorpe’s pictures both unite and divide viewers, provoking a consideration of perceived opposites–their literal as well emotional and cultural meanings – Black/White, Male/Female, Gay/Straight, Art/Porn, Classical/Contemporary. His pictures seduce, shock, offend, excite, intrigue and scare us all at once. The work puts the audience inside the artist’s viewfinder, inside his beautiful, bold, voracious view of how nature and humans look, touch, feel, hurt and love one another.
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Boston, MA