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Eva "Lyrical, elegiac, and a little disturbing...even if you think you're ready, you might not be." - NYtheater.com "Temporary Distortion manages, during a few moments of sculpted silence, to surprise you with a kind of eerie transcendence." - NY Sun In Eva we find two women (who coincidentally share the same name) on display in large wooden shadow boxes, isolated from each other and the audience behind sheets of glass. Amplified by microphones, these specimens of history quietly recall the secret thoughts and memories of two desolate ghosts. Punctuated by sudden blackouts and silences, the project itself was a highly abstract yet semi-biographical study that explored the inner thoughts of these two tragic lives, cut short through brain cancer for one and through suicide for the other. Biographies Sculptor and Painter Eva Hesse immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1939 with her parents and sister, narrowly escaping the horrors of the concentration camps that killed many of her family members. But in the midst of a successful career as an artist, Hesse died of brain cancer at the age of 34. Eva Braun was the mistress, and in her last day, the wife, of one of the most infamous men in the history of the world, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third German Reich. On April 30, 1945 she bit into a thin glass vial of cyanide and died at her husband's side. She was later doused with gasoline and burned. Performances Cooper Union (New York, NY) 2003 Written, Directed & Designed by Kenneth Collins CAST Stacey Bare Lorraine Mattox

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