Our Lady of the Swallows

Produced by CounterBalance Theater with support from the CTSA
Grotowski Barn, UC Irvine

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Additional movement: Caryn Heilman
Music: Nana Simopoulos
Costume consultant: Ashley Morgan

Cast: Viviana McCormick—Demeter and Mary; Tim Frangos—Therapion the Monk ; Sittichai Chaiyahat- the Villager, Head Nymph- Caryn Heilman; Nymphs- Jenya Lynn Gonzales, Lauren Onufryk, Isabella Chinnici, Alex Bloom, & Jeni Coletta

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Based on a short story by Margeurite Yourcenar

Our Lady of the Swallows is a devised physical theater performance with sung music created in collaboration by Annie Loui and Nana Simopoulos about the tenuous divide between Paganism and Christianity. A rampaging monk attempts to drive out the last remaining nymphs of the Mediterranean. Divine intervention is called for. A group of singers embody physical manifestation of the supernatural and a Villager comments.

Trailer: 3 min.

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