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Adhere And Deny presented SONG FOR SIMONE from February 25 to February 28, 2009.
SONG FOR SIMONE, a theatre/dance piece, is a portrait of Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political radical and mystic. Weil was that singular kind of person who is so compelling, but also, simultaneously, equally abhorrent. She is very difficult to summarize or define.
Weil died in England at the age of 34 in 1943. The cause of death: starvation. She refused to eat more than her compatriots were getting in war-torn France. She devoted her life to the study of human affliction, spiritually and politically. She worked herself to the point of illness at various factory jobs to understand better the workers’ lot. Her penetration, her courage, and her willingness to put the suffering of others into her own body, and experience it in her own body was real. Her spiritual beliefs were iconoclastic as her political beliefs. Born Jewish Weil developed a profound relationship with Christianity, but felt that to be baptized would be to betray the unsaved masses. Besides, for the Christian anarchist, the Church, at times, was an essay in spiritual totalitarianism.
SONG FOR SIMONE was directed by Grant Guy and featured Freya Olafson and Carolyn Gray. The Voice over was provided by Matt McLeod. Video design by Heidi Phillips and audio design by Susan Chafe.
Barb Stewart
Uptown Magazine, 2009:
For those theatre-goers who were expecting a straightforward recap of the life of the French mystic/philosopher/anarchist Simone Weil, SONG FOR SIMONE may have come as a bit of a shock. The work, like most from the Adhere And Deny camp, challenges the boundaries what theatre is and can be.
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