25 NW Everett Street, Portland, OR 97209
Children Get Stuck Places Underground is an evening-length multimedia opera, engendered by those composed for performance within The Land of Makebelieve by Mister Rogers. Memory, rendered as play, is enacted ritualistically by a chorus, each personifying one of the four Greek humors or stages in digestive processing. The negative space of a dark, hollow hole animates as snake, wending from mouth to mouth, weaving a purgative song of children whose dramatic slips below the surface initiated out-and-utter transformation.
Direction, lyrics, choreography, video, costumes & installation by Ides
Music composed w/ Ryan Sullivan
Melancholic ................. Bethany Ides
Choleric ....................... David Weinberg
Phlegmatic .................. Devin Lucid
Sanguine ..................... Morgan A. Ritter
Child-like ..................... Florence Answer Buddenbaum
