"I used to think that state aid to the theatre was the
solution. There should be state aid, of course, but I've grown
frightened of people who hold the money.
Bureaucrats are dangerous in any art, in any land. It
would be fine if government would put in the money and then go mind its
business. But it won't."
-Lillian Hellman
1962
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Publicity Photographs of
OUROBOROS
Scroll down to see the Cast in Action.
Photography by David Lavalley (www.davidlavalley.com).
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A SOARING BEGINNING
In the play's opening montage of interpretive movement, cast member
Jenna Winnett (center) takes on the characteristics of a magestic bird
flying temptingly around primitive hunters played by Lawrence Rowswell*
(right) and Bryan Patrick Stoyle (left). |
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GIVING THANKS FOR THE KILL
After delivering the death blow to the bird (Jenna Winnett, lying
center), primitive hunters Andrea Dudziak* (left), Yvette Bedgood
(center), and Lawrence Rowswell* (right) offer thanks to the heavens for
their kill.
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TENDING THE FIELDS
Moving on from the hunter/gatherer society, the ensemble portrays the
beginnings of subsistence farming. |
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AND THE CLASS DIVIDE BEGINS...
The birth of farming is soon followed by the birth of privilege as the
few hoard the surplus for themselves. The emerging privileged
class (Tamara S. Hopersberger*, left, Andrea Dudziak*, center, and
Lawrence Rowswell*, right) watch idly as the others toil for THEIR gain.
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THE TIME OF THE WHIP
AND SLAVE
And as the privilege class grows stronger, it isn't long before they
enslave their workforce. One slave driver (Bryan Patrick Stoyle,
left) pulls back a fellow overseer (Kevin Dennis*, center) from
excessively whipping his slave (Kaitlin Russo, right). |
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
It's a short step from slavery in the fields to the slavery of the
industrial worker. Dangling from the puppet strings of her
corporate master (Bryan Patrick Stoyle, above), a factory worker (Kaitlin
Russo, below) experiences the joys of mechanized labor.
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COLLAPSE
Growing symbolically from industrial workers into two towers, actors
Kaitlin Russo & Bryan Patrick Stoyle (left) and Jenna Winnett &
Kevin Dennis* (right) form the image of the World Trade Center as actors
Andrea Dudziak* (bending left) and Yvette Bedgood (bending right)
portray the fateful planes on collision course. |
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INNOCENT BLISS
After following the grand sweep of human civilization, our story returns
to the innocent allegorical beginnins in the Garden of Eden. Basking the raw beauty
of their surroundings, Adam & Eve (Bryan
Patrick Stoyle, center right, and Andrea Dudziak* center left) frolic
with the animals (Lawrence Rowswell*, dog, down center; Tamara S.
Hopersberger, cat, right; Yvette Bedgood, frog, far right; Jenna Winnett,
bird, upper right; Kevin Dennis*, bear, upper left; Kaitlin Russo, rat,
left).
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AND LOVE IS BORN
Discovering each for the first time, Adam & Eve (Bryan Patrick
Stoyle, left, and Andrea Dudziak*, right) sink into each others arms
falling deeply into a pure and enveloping love. |
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TEMPTATION TIME
After some choice words from the Tree of Knowledge (embodied by the
ensemble in the background), Adam & Eve (Bryan Patrick Stoyle, left,
and Andrea Dudziak*, right) contemplate biting the forbidden fruit.
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* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre
Collective
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