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Bartok’s Monster: Penn LiveArts

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From Penn Live Arts:
The "insightful and vibrant" (The New York Times) Daedalus Quartet returns to Penn Live Arts with Bartok's Monster, a collaboration with Dan Rothenberg, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, and Sebastianne Mundheim, Founder/Artistic Director of White Box Theatre. A musical investigation into a missing string quartet, this world premiere program by Penn's exceptional quartet-in-residence takes inspiration from Penn English professor Jay Kirk's Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in 2 Movements, a book Gideon Lewis-Kraus described as "a vivid, funny Gothic picaresque...and a dark, self-consuming act of memoiristic alchemy."

Read Brandon Baker, from Penn Today (January 17,2024) describe the project: Bartok’s Monster Challenges the Conventions of Theater.