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October 31, 2006
Religion of the Lie
The University of Georgia department of theatre and film studies will present artist Randall Packer and tenor Charles Lane in a new multimedia theatre work, Religion of the Lie (Orf’s Baptism), produced in collaboration with UGA students, a site-specific work at the Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery, an African-American historic site in Athens.
Religion of the Lie (Orf’s Baptism) is the latest installment of the epic multimedia work-in-progress, A Season in Hell, a commentary on the path of the United States in the post-9/11 era produced under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Art and Technology. The current work confronts deteriorating conditions resulting from some fundamentalist forms of religious ideology.
The character Orf, who like the mythological Orpheus transgresses boundaries between the living and the dead, is an aesthetic being traveling from the “Other World” to visit Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery to speak with the dead.
Posted by Randall at October 31, 2006 11:56 AM