Sunday, August 29, 2021
at 1pm

Film: Orson Rehearsed

A Prestidigitation
Music, Words, Film & Conception by Daron Hagen

Orson Rehearsed is a 60-minute multi-media Joycean stream of consciousness dreamscape film/opera/concert work/ web installation comprised of the Zuzu's petals-like memory shards of life streaming through the mind of American filmmaker, actor, activist, and visual artist Orson Welles during the last hour of his life. Welles is portrayed by three singers, accompanied by musicians and performed live to three synchronized 70-minute montages and an extensive electro-acoustic soundscape and visual images that correspond to musical and textual motives in the piece. The work, conceived, composed, and directed by Daron Hagen, debuted in its staged form at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago in September 2018, starring Robert Orth, Robert Frankenberry, and Omar Mulero of the New Mercury Collective, in association with Atlas Arts Media, and the Fifth House Ensemble.