DACOR

Travel Committee Event: The Man Ray Project: Caesar & The Mannequin

Date/Time

9/22/2024
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Eastern

Event Registration

Event Type(s)

Off-Site Event

Event Description

Enjoy a special afternoon at the final performance of "The Man Ray Project: Caesar & The Mannequin" on September 22nd at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. DACOR members, Duane Gelderloos (Executive Director of the Alliance for New Music-Theatre) and Susan Galbraith (Librettist and Director) are delighted to welcome their fellow members to this final performance and arranged for a group rate for 10+ DACOR members and guests to secure tickets at a discounted rate.

After the show, continue the evening for a post-theater supper at one of the popular restaurants in the bustling H Street corridor. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a memorable night of culture and camaraderie—reserve your tickets and join us for the show and, if you wish, share a delicious meal (self pay) and good conversation.

Alliance for New Music-Theatre presents a world premiere of The Man Ray Project: Caesar and the Mannequin. As autocratic leaders are on the rise again world-wide, a new show examines an original—Julius Caesar – whose ruthless ambition destroyed a 500-year-old Republic in short order.

The Man Ray Project: Caesar and the Mannequin was first conceived in 2019 by composer Andrew Earle Simpson and writer Susan Galbraith, based on a painting by Dadaist artist Man Ray and commissioned to celebrate The Phillips Collection’s Centennial Anniversary. Due to COVID, all live presentations were postponed, and an abbreviated version was released as part of a limited digitalized series of “Short Gems” works of music-theatre.

Now the full mixed-media, music-theatre work, blending music, text, movement, still photography, and video projections seems more prescient than ever.

Caesar’s head spins out of a museum closet to wreak mayhem, and a careening Mannequin follows him through a time tunnel and speaks truth to Caesar’s power. Meanwhile, the artist re-envisioned as Wo-Man Ray assembles found objects to create a painting and proclaim the pre-eminent power of art. Caesar reminds us all, “You can’t stick me in the closet; I will not stay there. The people… they want me; they always have.”

Offered in this most contentious election season, what could be more ‘oh-so -Washington?!’