Passion (in development)
The Theater at The Ace Hotel, California
PASSION is a multidisciplinary performance that invites an audience into a somatic experience rooted in the rehearsal of perseverance. Ignited by the iconic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, which portrays the final hours of Joan’s trial and execution, the performance explores our contemporary climate crisis and creates a collective experience, arriving at an insistence that we must change. In its heyday, silent film was often seen as a congregation, a gathering of an audience for a nonverbal event that led to a spiritual experience. PASSION gathers a congregation in a former silent movie palace, but with no film and no iconography — ultimately inviting us to face each other and ourselves.
An early version of PASSION was presented at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in August 2019
Created | Zoe Aja Moore & Rachel Jendrzejewski
Text | Rachel Jendrzejewski
Directed | Zoe Aja Moore
Developed with performers: Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel, Briġid Gallagher, Jenny Greer, Mireya Lucio, Gabriella Rhodeen
Sound Design | Duncan Woodbury
Production Design | Shannon Scrofano
Lighting Design | Josephine Wang
Costumes provided by LACAUSA
Also featuring recorded excerpts of a live score by Julia Holter for Dreyer’s film, performed by Julia, Corey Fogel, Devin Hoff, Dina Maccabee, and Tashi Wada.
Produced with Los Angeles Performance Practice and made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; Network of Ensemble Theaters’ Travel & Exchange Network (NET/TEN), supported by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Playwrights’ Center; and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) through a grant from The McKnight Foundation; and 120 generous Kickstarter backers.
Image – PASSION at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel (photo by Jonathan Potter)