Photo Flash: Culture Project Opens MOLORA!

Culture Project's Women Center Stage just opened the New York premiere of MoLoRa, the stunning Farber Foundry production based on the ancient Oresteia Trilogy, adapted and directed by Yael Farber.  Performances began at the Ailey Citigroup Theater at The Joan Weill Center for Dance (405 West 55th Street, NYC) on June 30th and will continue through July 24th, 2011, for 22 performances only. 

MoLoRa, originally presented at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, marks South African playwright and director Farber's first New York production since her acclaimed staging of Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise which was a smash hit at Culture Project in 2005. Like Amajuba, MoLoRa fuses a timely narrative with a specific musical world to create an event of extraordinary theatricality.

Set after the fall of apartheid, Farber's MoLoRa reimagines the ancient Greek Oresteia to tell the story of her own country's painful and extraordinary transition to democracy. As Klytemnestra and Elektra-mother and daughter, perpetrator and victim-sit to face each other in an open hearing, MoLoRa reenacts a watershed moment in world history, illuminating the universal and excruciating choice for any victim: to seek revenge or choose forgiveness.

Molora will play the following performance schedule: June 30 - July 24, Tuesdays - Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2pm. Tickets are $45 - $75 and are available via molora.org.

Photo Credit: Richard Patterson