| EVENT REPORT 03.31.09 8:01 AM |
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Inspired by Munch's Moody Artwork, Collaboraction Benefit Aims to Unnerve, Then Delight
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FROM CHICAGO
Usually, hosts strive to put guests at ease. At Saturday night's Carnaval, a kickoff for Collaboraction's 2009 Sketchbook festival of plays, the theater group aimed to disconcert. As guests filed into West Grand Studios, a sound stage attached to Collaboraction's new administrative offices, performers clad all in black ambled up to individual attendees, staring at them through lace veils for uncomfortably long periods of time, and sometimes feigned fits of inconsolable weeping.
The happening took visual cues from Edvard Munch's brooding artwork—currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago— and represented Collaboraction's take on Carnaval, which executive artistic director Anthony Moseley described as a "globally visceral celebration." Collaboraction's specialty, Moseley said, "is to take rituals [such as Carnaval] and deconstruct them," putting them back together with "our own alphabet, tools, passion, and neuroses."
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