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ADORATION
composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian libretto by Royce Vavrek Prototype Festival
Direction | Laine Rettmer
Music Direction | Alan Pierson Sound Engineer | Daniel Neumann Scenery | Afsoon Pajoufar Costume | Rachel Dainer-Best Projection | Camilla Tassi Cinematography | April Goldberg Adapted from the original film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an event perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his community and on the internet to highlight the challenges of intolerance and racism in our society. The fictional and actual circumstances of the loss of Simon’s family are revealed in fragments, only fitting together with the final revelation that the prejudices of Simon’s maternal grandfather led to his parents’ deaths.
Production Photography: Maria Baranova |