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about: A 75 minute piano score of incidental music and songs set to Erik Ehn's haunting, post-modern play. This show was sold out for every performance of it's five week run.
"...hauntingly accompanied by composer David Rhodes and beguilingly performed..."
Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle
"Composer Rhodes provides accompaniment at a piano...to mesmerizing, mystical passages...and some thrillingly wistful-expectant duets..."
Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle
"Composer David Rhodes...creates tension with his modernist music."
Chad Jones of the Oakland Tribune
"...the most entertaining aspect of Rhodes' music is watching him open the top of the spinet piano and pluck and pound on the strings to get just the right sound."
Chad Jones of the Oakland Tribune
"...all in rhythm to David Rhodes' haunting piano."
Michael Scott Moore of the San Francisco Weekly
"Composer and pianist David Rhodes has created an ethereal score for the production."
Richard Connema of Talkin' Broadway
produced by: Crowded Fire Theater Company.
listen to excerpts:
opening
petradance 1
ocean time
fish and amanda
tongue removal
the castle of the king of the sea
water ballet
kill the groom and war
follow the knife
daughters of the air
petradance 2
petradance 3
sound sews/mad at you
mortal reliquary
purple curtain
by small signs
A haunting mermaid fable for anyone who's ever heard the sirens singing, and considered following their call. Transplanting Hans Christian Andersen's famous Little Mermaid to a war-torn industrial bay, Erik Ehn explodes the fairy tale we're all familiar with, taking audiences on a journey into the depths of the sea, and the depths of our most secret desires. At a moment when we have every reason to view the future with pessimism, Ehn's post-modern fable offers us both a hymn to the power and possibility of change, and a cautionary tale about the price we all pay for achieving our dreams.