Theater: La MaMa E.T.C. / 74A East Fourth Street, New York, NY, 10003
Inspired by Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway?
April 17, 2012: Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Give a man some knowledge, and he’ll create a genetically modified salmon that could escape and wreak havoc on our ecosystem. That’s one of the messages of “Prometheus Within,” a transfixing if occasionally didactic new work written and directed by Theodora Skipitares at La MaMa.
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