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Interview with Normandy Sherwood

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Interview with Normandy Sherwood

"A play is a spell you can do that will do something to people, for a time.  It will give them an experience of a space made of language. It's also a place where people can be together, have an experience together—every performance calls together a collection of people that may never be in the same room together again."

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Feather Gatherers

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By Normandy Sherwood

Feather Gatherers (2014)

Enter the Devil, dressed as a Devil... In Feather Gatherers, a Stravinsky vaudeville set in a fictional 1960s Serbia (or is it West Virginia?), The Drunkard's Wife channels the spirit of Yugoslavian Black Wave film to renovate and re-cathect the 1918 "fairground entertainment", L'Histoire du Soldat—simultaneously returning it to its folk roots and using it to re-frame a classic Faust story as a rehearsal for a post-communist utopia—with echoes of the American Shakers’ heaven-on-earth, and of Wilhelm Reich’s orgone-energy-charged communitarian experiments.

Presented in New York City by the New Ohio Theatre as a part of its 2014 Ice Factory Festival.

See the video here.