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Photograph. A Play in Five Acts was one of a half dozen plays that Stein wrote in 1920. She was thinking about cinema and photography at this time, the postwar moment offering new opportunities to experience these media on a large scale. The play explores technological and biological reproduction via the theme of twinning. In our interpretation, three main voices (V, ME, and THREE) perform a parlour play with a CHORUS of musicians. The play-within-a-play centers on a photograph of a family on the verge of separation. The audio recording is of a live performance of SIX. TWENTY. OUTRAGEOUS:  Three Gertrude Stein Plays in the Shape of an Opera that took place February 11, 2018 at Symphony Space, New York City.

The recording is 35 minutes.

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credits:

  • Composer: Daniel Thomas Davis
  • Libretto: Adam Frank with the composer
  • Director/Designer: Doug Fitch
  • Musical Director: David Bloom
  • Sound Engineer: Ben Manley
  • Production Manager: Matt Grey
  • Photo courtesy of Steven Pisano Photography
  • Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek as V
  • Andrew Fuchs as ME
  • Ariadne Greif as THREE
  • Joseph Atkins as WE
  • Dimitri Dover, piano
  • Momenta Quartet:
    Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
    Alex Shiozaki, violin
    Stephanie Griffin, viola
    Michael Haas, cello
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  • The performance was made possible by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (File 435-2013-1684).
    Co-produced by American Opera Projects and Symphony Space.

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