PRODUCTION HISTORY; 1975 - 2018
Written and directed by Antero Alli unless otherwise noted
Portland OR ~ DEC. 2016 to DEC. 2018
December 2018, PerformanceWorks NorthWest
Poetry by Sylvia Plath; Sylvi Alli, music director
May 2018, PerformanceWorks NorthWest
Poetry by William Blake; Sylvi Alli, music director
December 2017. PerformanceWorks NorthWest
Poetry by Hilda Doolittle (aka HD)
Sylvi Alli, Music director
May 2017. PerformanceWorks NorthWest
Poetry by Charles Bukowski Music by E.V.E.
Sylvi Alli, musical director
December 2016. PerformanceWorks NorthWest
A symbolist ritual. Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud.
Music by Sylvi and Antero Alli.
"dreambody/earthbody" (2012)
"dreambody/earthbody"
Video production of a seven-week dreaming ritual Lab.
May/June, 2012. Finnish Brotherhood Hall,
Berkeley CA.
Watch a 10 min. excerpt.
Rainer
Maria Rilke's "REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND"
Intermedia Performance Ritual
incoporating Rilke's text (circa 2005)
A reprise of the 1990 paratheatrical treatment
of Rilke's lyrical lament
as a live
performance
ritual which was filmed and incorporated
into
"The Greater Circulation" a indie feature film. ParaTheatrical ReSearch.
May
21, 22, 28, 29, 2005. Finnish Brotherhood Hall,
Berkeley.
Click this to watch the performance within the film
"Songs as Vehicles" (2004)
"SONGS
AS VEHICLES":
Winter Solstice Performance Ritual
Towards
the embodiment of songs in a cross-cultural context
Ten
vocal performers work for
three months on one song each,
chosen from their
ancestral
culture, towards their ritualistic
embodiment
in solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets, and
mass cacophonies.
Dec. 20,
2004. Berkeley CA.
Audio
document recorded (CD)
"Orphans of Delirium " (2004)
"ORPHANS
OF DELIRIUM"
Performance
rites incorporating Coleridge's "Kubla
Khan"
Video
document recorded. ParaTheatrical ReSearch.
March 2004, Berkeley & SF
from "Hungry Ghosts of Albion " (1999)
"HUNGRY
GHOSTS OF ALBION"
Two-act Intermedia Dream
Play
With additional text by William Blake and Isaac
Newton.
Music by SYLVI
ALLI. ParaTheatrical ReSearch May 1999, S.F.
from "Hungry Ghosts" (1998)
"HUNGRY
GHOSTS"
Two-act Intermedia Dream
Play
with sean john walsh, Jennifer
Pratt and Kevin Haggerty, Ed Byrne.
ParaTheatrical
ReSearch workshop
production; May 1998, Seattle WA
(Video document recorded)
"MASS OF THE ICONOCLASTS"
Winter Solstice performance ritual
ParaTheatrical ReSearch;
Oct-Dec 1992, Masonic Temple, The Weathered Wall, Seattle WA
from "Requiem
for a Friend" (1990)
"REQUIEM
FOR A FRIEND"
Performance ritual incorporating
poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
with Jadina Lilian,
Sylvi Pickering, Camille Hildebrandt, Kia Sian;
ParaTheatrical ReSearch. Oct.
1990. Bell Gallery, Seattle.
"CROSSING THE WATER"
Performance ritual incorporating poetry of Sylvia Plath
Antero Alli, Camille Hildebrandt, Richard Bradshaw, Steven Miller, Gavin Green
(ParaTheatrical ReSearch; Spring 1990, Wonderful World of Art Gallery, Seattle)
"ANIMAMUNDI" - ParaTheatrical ReSearch
Performance
ritual inspired
by the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
Created & performed by Antero Alli & Camille Hildebrandt.
Music by Sylvi
Alli
(Autumn 1989/90 tour, Victoria
BC/Seattle/Portland/Berkeley/Santa Cruz)
This 4-year era minimized paratheatre-based Labs and performances as
Antero's focus shifted to writing four books (published by Falcon Press).
"CHAPEL
PERILOUS"
Dreaming Phases for
Lovers
a 2-act play based
on archetypes
of the "anima" and "animus"
Antero Alli, Leesanne Modine, Marc Sabin, Molly
Dwyer, Julian Simeon,
Cedrus Monte.
Directed w/Marc Sabin. Executive producer, Cathleen
O'Connell.
Theatre
23.
Jan/Feb. 1983
(Cinnabar Theatre, Petaluma; Studio Eremos,
S.F. and the Helen Schoeni Theatre in Mendocino)
"WHERE
I?"
Mimetic
treatment of Robinson Jeffers' poetry
with
Antero Alli, Jacob Shefa and Johanna Modisette.
Barbara Rose Shuler, recitalist; Peter Metcalf,
cellist
(Point Blank Mime Troupe; Spring
1982, Carmel CA)
"THE
CONJUNCTION"
Two-act
Alchemical Mystery Play
A writer's night dreams force
a confrontation between his art
and pending fatherhood.
With Carole Swann, Harvey Wasserman,
Ben DiGregorio,
Theresa Laferriere, and Antero Alli.
(The Chamber Theatre Troupe; 1978, Berkeley).
"SONGS
OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE"
Performance ritual utilizing
William Blake's poetry
with Leslie Mahler, Antero
Alli, Ben DiGregorio, Theresa Laferriere
(Chamber Theatre Troupe; 1978, So. Berkeley Community Church)
"CORONATION
AT STILLNIGHT"
Two-Act Play inspired
by Dante's "Divine Comedy" (utilizing
choir)
In his dreams, a man unexpectedly discovers
he has passed away and about to
be
judged
in his
afterlife.
with
Antero Alli, Ben DiGregorio, Theresa Laferriere,
Sima Wolf, Terri Shell, David Cohen, John Rock
(The
Chamber Theatre Troupe;
November 1977, Berkeley/Crown Hall,
Mendocino)
"HIM"
A 3-Act Poem Play by e.e.cummings
Paul Townsend, Antero Alli, Dan Risko, Sima Wolf, Mary Forcade
and many others
(1976, Mendocino Art Center Theatre)
"CIRCLES"
A Full-length Mime Play with Music and Accompanying Text
Seven mute characters portray aspects of one psyche interacting within
itself and
and
unravelling
in the wake of a series of outside interruptions.
Antero Alli, Brian Wasserman, Julie B. Oak, Leigh Lightfoot, Sima Wolf.
Ardy Leenders (Spring 1975, Berkeley; Mendocino Art Center Theatre)