Title: Footnote for the End of Time
Venue and Format: YouTube
Innovation: Animated Play on YouTube
Time stops for a Jewish playwright sentenced to death during the Nazi occupation of Prague in this brand new retelling of Jorge Luis Borges’ classic short story The Secret Miracle. Created for spoken word and chamber orchestra, this new translation sets Borges’ words to verse with an accompaniment inspired by Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, itself composed in a Nazi POW camp.
THEATRE/COMPANY:
Theater in Quarantine
ARTISTS:
Created by Alex Weston, Jonathan Levin, and Joshua William Gelb
Music: Alex Weston
Text: Joshua William Gelb
Direction: Jonathan Levin
Movement: Katie Rose McLaughlin
Illustrations: Jesse Gelaznik
Clarinet: Rob Walker Violin: Alex Weill Cello: Susan Mandel Piano: Alex Weston
DATE OF PREMIERE: August 27, 2020
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: YouTube
