NOV 15-17 | Eurydice Fragments

IndieFest 2024 presents the World Premiere of Eurydice Fragments. Join us for an immersive live theatre experience at Signals Studio, at the Centre for Digital Media.

Tickets: Regular: $25–45

Four Performance Dates:
Fri, November 15th | 7:30pm
Sat, November 16th | 2:00pm
Sat, November 16th | 7:30pm
Sun, November 17th | 2:00pm

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Eurydice Fragments is a contemporary version of the Orphean Greek myth that fuses powerful vocal performance, dance, extended reality, motion capture and interactive technologies. Through an immersive exploration of our digital and carbon existences, the performance dissolves the binaries we are bound to from birth until death, and strums the threads between heaven and hell, male and female, maker and muse, performer and audience.

The story follows O, a trans person whose sense of gender and identity is expansive — yet who has lived a fractured life. Haunted by past experiences and personhoods that have been suppressed, repressed, or condemned, O journeys to the Styx, a queerbar, where they find the opportunity to express themself through avatars in extended reality. As O navigates the fluid landscapes of identity and technology, Eurydice Fragments challenges us to question: how do we navigate the vastness of our identities in spaces that resist our multiplicity?

Content note for representations of intersex/trans/nonbinary-erasure, in the form of oppressive language and systemic prejudice: these are things our production attempts to disrupt. Specific scenes draw on oppressive language around prenatal identification of intersex genetics, and on legal language enforcing limitations on gender fluidity.

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