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Last Updated: August 31, 2007 13:16
ART puts on operas that teens might even like
INTERVIEW. The American Repertory Theatre is once again opening its doors to Minneapolis’ Theatre de la Jeune Lune, who will kick off the ART’s fall season this weekend with repertory productions of “Don Juan Giovanni” and “Figaro.” Steven Epp co-created the pieces with Dominique Serrand and he also plays key characters in both productions. He says the productions are “a marriage or meeting of the play and the opera.”
How do stories like this appeal to people who are afraid of opera?
We have a Don Juan, a Sganarelle, Don Giovanni and a Leporello who meet and end up on this road trip across the country that feels like a buddy movie where they seduce women, get into trouble and get the hell out of town and onto the next place where they do the same thing until it sort of catches up with them. … It’s been fantastic with younger crowds. When we were working these pieces, we rehearsed them in front of high school kids, and they loved them. It’s not stuffy, it’s not boring. They understand the pieces. It’s irreverent, naughty, beautiful. You get a little of everything.
Why are they performed in repertory?
It’s more common in the opera world to have repertory but it’s really never done much anymore. It’s a great experience for the audience to see a piece and return the following week to see the same performers do something so very different. As a performer it’s really invigorating. It keeps the material fresh as you live with the two.
It must be hard to work on two productions at once.
Initially, as we tried to get them both on their feet, there were a lot of challenges. There is a point where you get a bit overwhelmed but once they’re up and running, once you step in to the world of the show, you’re in it and you go. It’s like moving from one room into another and the whole world changes.
Does the audience have to see both productions?
No, they function totally autonomously. But we found at home it was a really rich experience to see both. We even found that once they’d seen one they wanted to go back and see the other.
INTERVIEW. The American Repertory Theatre is once again opening its doors to Minneapolis’ Theatre de la Jeune Lune, who will kick off the ART’s fall season this weekend with repertory productions of “Don Juan Giovanni” and “Figaro.” Steven Epp co-created the pieces with Dominique Serrand and he also plays key characters in both productions. He says the productions are “a marriage or meeting of the play and the opera.”
How do stories like this appeal to people who are afraid of opera?
We have a Don Juan, a Sganarelle, Don Giovanni and a Leporello who meet and end up on this road trip across the country that feels like a buddy movie where they seduce women, get into trouble and get the hell out of town and onto the next place where they do the same thing until it sort of catches up with them. … It’s been fantastic with younger crowds. When we were working these pieces, we rehearsed them in front of high school kids, and they loved them. It’s not stuffy, it’s not boring. They understand the pieces. It’s irreverent, naughty, beautiful. You get a little of everything.
Why are they performed in repertory?
It’s more common in the opera world to have repertory but it’s really never done much anymore. It’s a great experience for the audience to see a piece and return the following week to see the same performers do something so very different. As a performer it’s really invigorating. It keeps the material fresh as you live with the two.
It must be hard to work on two productions at once.
Initially, as we tried to get them both on their feet, there were a lot of challenges. There is a point where you get a bit overwhelmed but once they’re up and running, once you step in to the world of the show, you’re in it and you go. It’s like moving from one room into another and the whole world changes.
Does the audience have to see both productions?
No, they function totally autonomously. But we found at home it was a really rich experience to see both. We even found that once they’d seen one they wanted to go back and see the other.
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