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THEATRICAL
REPERTOIRE
As
a child, I read the Greek myths with a flashlight, under the covers.
My imaginary bestiery is made of night, of silence, of insomnia.
Seeds planted very early, with long, thin, incredibly tenacious
roots. I’ve carried these stories with me for a lifetime,
literally.
I think this is the heart of my theatrical work for and with children:
to share the limitless joy of those nights under the covers—the
profound realization that the world is huge, rainbow-hued (to take
Hawthorne’s term), that it extends from a remote past of magical
tales, that it will open like an enormous flower towards a future
of infinite adventure, ‘in which you, young reader, shall
play the protagonist!’
The question, ‘Who knows who I will be?’ is implicit
in all my children’s theatre work.
Robert McNeer
(from the notes to “Uròboros, or Whatever Happened
Behind the Stars”)
Our current repertoire consists of three plays:
KiSaKiSaRò (Who Knows Who
I Will Be)
Big questions for little heads
A play for humans from 6 years old, inspired by Ovid’s
‘Metamorphoses’
“KiSaKiSaRò” is a theatrical game
full of musical and visual transformations seen through the eyes
of a child, accompanied by her poetry. It is a voyage through Greek
myth, into that place where nothing is as it seems, and magic is
the stuff of every day…
“WOZ’AMERICA”
A big country for little spectators by and with Robert McNeer
A play for anyone who was ever 3 years old
“This dream, that you can even walk on the moon if you
really want to, is the America that I want to share with these children.
I do so from the top of a very tall platform. I don’t actually
fly, but don’t tell them that…”
'“ODYSSEY”
A play for young and old people from 12 on
“You are on the sea. Deepest night. You turn on the
radio, and find yourself pulled into the story of Odisseus, the
eternal stranger, tirelessly, breathlessly searching the way home,
before it’s too late…”
As well as these plays, we would like to remember
“URòBOROS,” or Whatever Happened Behind the Stars,
which we opened in the year 2000, and played happily for
children from 6 years old, until the year 2004
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