LADY: Images in a Melodramatic Setting
“Heartbreaking revelation subverting the traditional… enormous emotional force… a knock out.”
– NOW MAGAZINE
As part of the official launch of The Dietrich Group, Lady: Images in a Melodramatic Setting premiered within a trilogy of works inspired by D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover on January 4th 2008, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Canada.
Dance artists Danielle Baskerville, Brodie Stevenson, Linnea Swan and Brendan Wyatt, spoken word artist Jill Battson, soprano Deirdre Fulton, musician Shaun Brodie and award-winning filmmaker Nico Stagias form the eclectic multidisciplinary cast of this highly theatrical piece.
Lady follows a woman – her mythology, her sexuality, her stories – into the clutches of any one notion of ‘identity’. Is her identity hers alone? Or is she an idea the audience has formed of her through images that resonate with iconic, yet unsettling familiarity?
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
– D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Direction/Choreography: D.A. Hoskins
Dance Artists: Danielle Baskerville, Brodie Stevenson, Linnea Swan, Brendan Wyatt
Spoken Word: Jill Battson
Film: Nico Stagias
Original Music: Jeremy Mimnagh
Vocalist: Deirdre Fulton
Musician: Shaun Brodie
Duration: 60 minutes
