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Ariel View

Produced by Royal Jelly Company

Author: Andrea C. Graugnard and Daniel J. LeBlanc

Our show is a collage of texts written by and about Sylvia Plath. It is an investigation of the way we imagine an artist through thier work and the work about them. The highly physical and simplistic staging is as varied as the sources from which we draw our text. Who controls the visions we have of her and who owns the facts that we find so fascinating?

In a world constantly feeding on the private lives of celebrities, a poet like Plath is under constant scrutiny and judgment because she used her own experiences to create her art. This is made even easier because she is dead and has left so much personal aritfacts behind. Does her work have any merit seperate from her life's events?

This show was orginally dveloped and continues to be modified by intense collaboration. The ensemble of actors and designers have built this show from the ground up using the most magic we could imagine. It is also a humorous approach to a very serious and scollarly subject. I can proudly say this is a project unlike anything I have seen.

Daniel LeBlanc. co-director