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The Dissapearance marks a new point of departure for Double Edge - a collaboration with a living author, Ilan Stavans, on a work rife with contemporary relevance and power. Conceived and directed by Stacy Klein, the Disappearance follows the story of a famous Jewish actor in Belgium, Maarten Soetendrop, who stages his own kidnapping to awaken his community to a perceived renewal of anti-Semitism. The result of this collaboration is a multi-layered theatrical adaptation where a linear narrative meets a shifting dreamscape. The performance also features a haunting original score, a play-within-a-play performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, life-sized puppets and an evocative set fashioned from glass doors and mirrors. The Disappearance had a workshop presentation at Double Edge Theatre in March 2008 and has since toured to the National Yiddish Book Center (MA), and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA (World Premiere).The Disappearance was presented as part of Double Edge Theatre's The Garden Cycle in the spring and fall of 2009, and toured to the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in November 2009 (VT). It will next be presented at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, in May 2010 after a final local presentation this March.
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