This week in the arts; watch an epic play, Monstrosity, where girls are the heroes; experience new works of sonic and visual art through Jonty Harrison’s “Voyages,”听enjoy student piano performances in Brechemin Auditorium, and listen to the UW’s top auditioned choir perform in their fall quarter concert.
Monstrosity
November 28 – December 10聽| Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theater
When Tierney and Patrick鈥檚 resistance-leading parents are murdered, the siblings are conscripted into a teenage fascist training camp run by their parents鈥� killer. The camp鈥檚 leader would like nothing better than to prove the virtue of his worldview by grooming the uniquely gifted Tierney as his successor. His daughter Sarah, however, is bent on subverting his plan, trying instead to draw Tierney into her effort to construct a more peaceful, loving social order within their war torn reality. Epic, disturbing, fantastical, massive, and meaty, “Monstrosity“聽is a retelling of the hero’s tale where girls are the heroes, youth are the powerful, and a pair of magical, bicycle-riding twins whisper at our deepest, darkest impulses.
*directed by Samie Detzer, guest artist from Washington Ensemble Theater
Music of Today: DXArts
7:30 p.m., November 28聽| Meany Theater
The Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media and the School of Music are pleased to present “Voyages,”听by Jonty Harrison聽in Holographic Higher Order Ambisonic surround-sound.聽Harrison’s hour-long “Going/Places”听goes far and wide, quite literally, grazing materials from around the globe:聽railroad horns from Ohio; bubbling geothermal pools in Iceland; calls to prayer in Istanbul; Mexican bagpipers; frogs in Borneo; market callers in Melbourne. A travelogue of bewildering discontinuities, it rushes on with the uplifting fluency of a dream. “Voyages“聽also features “Espaces cach茅s,” a series of scenes and apparitions also crafted from found sounds.
Brechemin Piano Series
7:30 p.m., November 30聽| Brechemin Auditorium
In this free admissions concert, come hear students from 91探花piano studios perform music from the piano repertoire.
Chamber Singers and University Chorale
7:30 p.m., November 30聽| Meany Theater
The UW鈥檚 top auditioned choirs perform聽Bach鈥檚 Cantata 106, Vivaldi鈥檚 “Vix et Dominum,”听two settings of 鈥淲hen David Heard,鈥� and other selections in their fall quarter concert.聽