The Brownings
Orbiter 3
2017
Director: Harriet Power
Costumes: Marie Anne Chiment
Lighting: Jerold Forsythe
Director: Harriet Power
Costumes: Marie Anne Chiment
Lighting: Jerold Forsythe
In Sam Henderson’s take on the great Romantic-era poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
past and present collide with dissonance and grace in constantly shifting measures.
It was important to evoke something of their historical world without binding them in a literal reality.
The intersecting
arcs provided a framing device of two incomplete visual quotations that could be ignored or
treated as solid as the situation required.