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Colombine’s Paradise Theatre

Fragile, lovelorn, and passionate, Columbine is caught in a painful triangle: longing for Harlequin, lusted after by Pierrot. Are her demons real or imaginary? Colombine’s Paradise Theatre is a dark musical fairytale of love and death, dream and delusion. The six musicians of multi-Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird play, speak, sing, whisper, growl, and mime, breathing theatrical life into these rich Commedia dell’arte characters. Composer Amy Beth Kirsten’s fragile, seductive music has been described as “torrential and haunting.” Director Mark DeChiazza’s past work has been lauded by the Washington Post as “. . . [an] inventive, dark, cabaret-style production . . . eighth blackbird added to the sense of a high wire act with the almost-unheard-of feat of playing the whole thing from memory.” As a curtain-raiser to this love-haunted show, eighth blackbird presents a set of love songs through the ages, including Monteverdi’s “little death,” Richard Reed Parry's "Duet for Heart and Breath," and other repertoire.

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• Composed by Amy Beth Kirsten
• Directed and Designed by Mark DeChiazza
• Performed by eighth blackbird
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