CUTTING BALL THEATER’S VARIETY PACK PRESENTS:
PIDOR AND THE WOLF
BY SAM MAX / DIRECTED BY SUSANNAH MARTIN / CUTTING BALL THEATER
Following her work in last year’s Variety Pack' SHORTCUTS (images below of Artaud’s SPURT OF BLOOD, directed by Artistic Director, Ariel Craft), Adrian Deane plays Peter’s Wife in the staged reading of Sam Max’s symphonic full-length PIDOR AND THE WOLF.
PIDOR and the Wolf is a full-length play with music. The piece uses Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf as a framework to tell a true story about the government-sanctioned atrocities being committed against queer Chechens. These violations of human rights are still actively occurring. "Pidor" is Russian slang for faggot.
LEIGH RONDON-DAVIS, JULIE DOUGLAS, and ADRIAN DEANE perform ARIEL CRAFT’s devised interpretation of in ARTAUD’S SPURT OF BLOOD
ADRIAN DEANE, JULIE DOUGLAS, AND LEIGH RONDON-DAVIS in ARTAUD’S SPURT OF BLOOD
FARM HOUSE
BY DAVID CASSIDY / DIRECTED BY BRUCE COUGHRAN / INDRA’S NET THEATER
ADRIAN DEANE will be playing the voices of VOICE [OF DOOM] and BBC ANNOUNCER
November 11, 2019, 8:00 PM PST,, at The Bridge Church (2414 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, California 94704)
In the final months of World War II, as allied troops roll across Germany, an elite mission was sent in to find and capture all the leading German Atomic scientists. The captives were held in Belgium, and then taken to England. From the devastation of Germany, the group of scientists suddenly found themselves in a manor-house in the in the English countryside. As British Intelligence listened in, the scientists discussed their work, each other, their history, and listened in shock as the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
This play is based on the transcripts of these discussions, recorded on hidden microphones.
Brought together by historian David Cassidy, it is a fascinating look at the way politics and war can bend science, almost to the breaking point.