Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Jen Pitt’s (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2020) production of Big Love.
October 10th - 19th 2019
Sound Design - Max Silverman
Production Stage Manager Lola Bao
Set Designer Anna Driftmier
Costume Designer Isabelle Tabet
Lighting Designer Nic Vincent
Prop Master Christl Stringer
Dance Choreographer Amanda de Oliveira
Fight Choreographer Rebekah Carrow
Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy in this modern re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. And, in this villa on the Italian coast, the fifty grooms catch up with the brides, and mayhem ensues: the grooms arriving by helicopter in their flight suits, women throwing themselves over and over again to the ground, pop songs and romantic dances, and, finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder 49 of the grooms-and one bride falls in love. About the same odds as today. We have still not figured out how to love.
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Photos by Heidi Bohnenkamp