World premiere of fanciful production marks collaboration of three leading Bay Area theater artists.
“Sojourner ZY,” a new show debuting at the Presidio in San Francisco, blends elements of shadow puppetry and science fiction.What happens when you bring together three visionary Bay Area theater creators who have never worked together before? In the case of “Sojourner ZY,” you get a futuristic space fantasy full of liquid, animal-headed and intangible alien beings.
“I sometimes used to joke when I was doing the traditional Bali shadow theater that Americans only respond to really big things,” Reed says. “So I wanted to do a really big shadow play. And after a while, I discovered that I was doing that. I was using cinematic ideas and a combination of different lights and scenery, so that I could do a live montage, a live movie in shadow. And that has an effect, I think, on audiences that’s very different than animation or film or other kinds of theater.
Dresher is creating music for this piece as part of an electro-acoustic duo with a longtime collaborator, percussionist Joel Davel. Dresher will be playing two of his invented instruments, the Hurdy Grande and Quadrachord , and Davel will be playing the Marimba Lumina, a mallet instrument concocted by Don Buchla.
“I was interested in science fiction, particularly Chinese science fiction,” Reed says. “Because a lot of the traditional shadow play stuff deals with mythology, and science fiction is basically the modern mythology.”
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