
Pierrot Lunaire 2014
Overview
Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver
Director: Bruce LaBruce
Cast

Susanne Sachße
Pierrot Lunaire
Maria Ivanenko

Paulina Bachmann
Luizo Vega
Mehdi Berkouki
Boris Lisowski
Krishna Kumar Krishnan

Bruce LaBruce