[New York, NY]

The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love by Corina Copp at the PRELUDE.12 Festival
October 5, 2012, 5:15 pm
at Martin E. Segal Theatre at The CUNY Graduate Center

As part of the PRELUDE.12 Festival, the first installment of The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, a trilogy to be built primarily on considerations of desire and reappearance as they are taken up in the book, script, and film work of Marguerite Duras, SUSANSWERPHONE takes for its sources the 1960 film musical Bells Are Ringing, about a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator (Judy Holliday) who falls in love with a client who calls her “Mom;” Duras’ dissolving of characters’ limits in the conflation of ravishment and nonsuffering; and the imperfect quotidian as portrayed in the photographs and writing of Moyra Davey. This piece is also inspired by Holliday’s own experience with the shooting of Bells (“I was having a hard time rethinking the role for the screen”); and is a gesture toward inhabiting a particular kind of love, all current, “the taciturn wedding of an empty life with an indescribable object.” Written by Corina Copp; directed by Josh Hoglund; performed by Kate Moran, Kristen Sieh, and Jason Quarles; video and audio design by Tei Blow; design and set elements by Jeremy Lydic; produced by Allison Lyman. More details and updated schedule here