Laurie Anderson: Delusion
Discipline:
Theatre
Principal artist(s):
Laurie Anderson
Presented With:
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
When:
2/16/2010 - 2/20/2010
8:00 pm
2/21/2010
2:00 pm
Where:
Vancouver Playhouse
600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
Map
Ticket Type:
Ticketed
Ticket information:
Price: $45 and $55
Telephone Information Line:
604 873 3311
Laurie Anderson
Conceived as a series of short mystery plays, Delusion jump-cuts between the everyday and the mythic. Combining violin, electronic puppetry, music and visuals, Delusion is full of nuns, elves, golems, rotting forests, ghost ships, archaeologists, dead relatives and unmanned tankers. It tells its story in the colourful and poetic language that has become Anderson's trademark. Inspired by the breadth of Balzac, Ozu and Laurence Sterne, and employing a series of altered voices and imaginary guests, Anderson tells a complex story about longing, memory and identity. At the heart of Delusion is the pleasure of language and a terror that the world is made entirely of words.
“You begin with a blank mind. There is absolutely nothing in it. Not a single picture. There is a void. No names. The first thing to wander into this mind is a small spotted dog named Terence and his owner, historian and social commentator Fenway Bergamot.” — Laurie Anderson.
Produced with additional support from Cal Performances; University of California, Berkeley; and Stanford Lively Arts, Stanford University.
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