A Serious Banquet

“A Serious Banquet” (2014)

A Serious Banquet is a devised piece structured around the party Picasso threw for the painter Henri Rousseau in 1908 as recorded by Gertrude Stein in "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein." We created a cubist theatre experience that gave partygoers a sense of what it would be like to be inside a Picasso painting – to explore the world from a Cubist perspective, to see the world as he painted it, and to translate some of his paintings into movement, sound, smell, and taste.

Conceived and Directed by Erin B. Mee.
Written by Jessie Bear.
Featuring: Jeanine Abraham, Stephen Bennett, Shawn Chua, Ashley Wren Collins, Vincent Cooper, Ryan Feyk, Caitlin Goldie, Erika Iverson, Miranda Kahn, Lily Narbonne, Clara Pagone, Jillian Puhalla, Kate Reilly, Sandra Maren Schneider, Ali Kennedy Scott.