To the Moon and Back

2022-09-06 (Creation date: 2022)

Parker, Olivia Grace

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.

Harmon, Grace; Daniels, Harrison; Ball, James, III; Texas A & M University. Department of Performance Studies

Texas A&M University Libraries

Stage adaptations; Experimental drama

Devised theatre; Creative work; Space flight to the moon; Film studies; Trip to the moon (Motion picture)

LAUNCH

LAUNCH

English

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1 video file (16:34)

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Submitted as part of the undergraduate thesis, "To The Moon and Back: Cultural Consequences of George Melies’ Trip to the Moon (1902)" in May 2022 for the Department of Performance Studies
Creation/Production Credits
Devised, designed and performed by Grace Harmon, Harrison Daniels and Olivia Parker.
Faculty advisor, Dr. James Ball III.