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1. To the Moon and Back (16:34)

Date:
2022-09-06
Main contributors:
Parker, Olivia Grace
Summary:
Performance of a work that is an adaptation of Georges Méliès. 1902 film, Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon). This project deconstructed and developed Méliès’ film into a work of devised theatre that investigates, converses with, and intervenes in the original work. The goal is not to exactly replicate the film or simply adapt it for the stage, but to understand what the film and its creator are saying and craft a response using some of the same aesthetic and contextual language. What does the film articulate now, two-hundred years after its release? Combining biographical, autobiographical, historical, and generic elements, the resulting performance piece explores questions of identity, exploration, memory, the medium of film itself and our relationship to it.