Fugue Series

Written by Robert Barnett
Directed by Ed Wierzbicki
Music by Brian Wilbur Grundstrom
Presented by The New Zenith Theatre
New York International Fringe Festival
August 9,10,15,18 & 23, 2008
New School for Drama Theatre
151 Bank Street, New York, NY
Press Release

FUGUE SERIES

is a silent movie come to life. The play is an ensemble mime piece set to an original score by Brian Wilbur Grundstrom and takes place in an art museum over the course of a day. In this New York world premiere, the cast creates a quick-change soufflé of people and personalities whose interweaving storylines become a visual fugue as they visit a museum gallery to view a series of three paintings. The aging artist’s model wanting to share her past acclaim with her adult daughter…the snooty critic, the chattering matrons, the uncomprehending tourists, the put-upon docent, the lovers…become their own living pictures at an exhibition, set to the music that only we, the audience, hears.