Here Are Lions
With a ghostly narrator, an orchestral score, three clowns (one of whom sings arias) and a variety of storytelling conceits, New Beast looks back on 20th century America in their third semi-opera: Here Are Lions.
Starring
Lucy Carapetyan
Carla Kessler
Ian McCabe
Shaw Nigro
Nicole Ripley
James Whittington
Production Assistance
Isaac Fosl-van Wyke
Katy Collins
Directed, written and created by David Amaral
Composed and created by Joshua Dumas
Special thanks to Anthony Courser.
About the play:
With a ghostly narrator, an orchestral score, three clowns (one of whom sings arias) and a variety of storytelling conceits, New Beast looks back on twentieth century America in their third semi-opera Here Are Lions.
In June 1968, a young salesman returns home to Chicago to care for his mother who is suffering from dementia. As she drifts between confusion and clarity, we see glimpses of her past, her son’s future, and the social change sweeping Chicago and the nation in the late 60s. Our guide on this journey is the man’s father, killed in WWII, but whose ghost is shunted through time and space whenever a story is told. He tumbles through the twentieth century, witness to wars, counter culture, corruption, and the mundane.
This production is supported by High Concept Laboratories and Elastic Arts Foundation.