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Laboratory Theater's LE MIRAGE Plays At The Brick Theater 6/13, 6/20, 6/24
By: Gabrielle Sierra May. 11, 2009
Laboratory Theater performs its newest piece LE MIRAGE on Saturday June 13 at 7pm, Saturday June 20 at 7pm, and Wednesday June 24 at 7:30pm, presented by The Brick Theater as part of The Antidepressant Festival (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer in Brooklyn).
LE MIRAGE is an imagined lecture and demonstration of mystical dance by members of the real-life 1980's French-Canadian cult, The Order of the Solar Temple. Three members of an alleged Las Vegas chapter of the Solar Temple offer true peace and happiness through a commingling of dance, original new age music, inspirational texts, and ritual. Featuring Rosicrucianism, ecological philosophy, the Holy Grail, and Transit to the planet Jupiter.
"At this Supreme Moment, the ruby power of the Work should rejoin the Levels of the Future. Our transit will be as a passage across a mirror. Our Terrestrial Journey is coming to an end."
Laboratory Theater's newest piece is drawn from actual lecture transcripts and ritual texts by The Order of the Solar Temple. The Order was a millenarian cult active in the 1980s and early ‘90s in Quebec, Canada and Geneva, Switzerland. They believed in the continuing existence of the Knights Templar, performed elaborate secret rituals, ran an organic farm, and professed that their members would be reunited one day with an ancient brotherhood of Ascended Masters on the planet Jupiter. In 1994, 53 members were found dead amidst fiery blazes, a combination of mass-suicide and ritual murder, their bodies arranged in star patterns.
Directed by Yvan Greenberg, performed by Corey Dargel, Sheila Donovan, and Oleg Dubson, with original music by François B. Nouvel-Âge, the piece unfolds through Laboratory Theater's signature layering of choreography, text, complex sound design, improvisation, and imitation.
LE MIRAGE will play as part of The Antidepressant Festival, June 5-July 4 at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer in Brooklyn), Saturday June 13 at 7pm, Saturday June 20 at 7pm, and Wednesday June 24 at 7:30pm. Tickets ($15) are available through www.theatermania.com (212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111).
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