Here is the trailer of our new play:
🍃🌹I am the utterance of my name: Divining Mary Magdalene 🌹🍃
A music-theater piece untangling and illuminating the many surrounding beliefs, myths, contradictions, iconography, and decrees, in search of Magdalene and the meaning of her radical Gospel.
Silenced as an apostle, framed as a prostitute, portrayed as the wife, mythologized as a hermit and tantric priestess, exalted as Goddess, Mary Magdalene has always been controversial and dangerous to the status quo.
Drawing from ancient texts, artworks, contemporary scholarship, and representations in contemporary culture,
Sylvia Milo’s portrayal creates a prismatic image of Mary Magdalene in seven apparitions. Nathan Davis - composer | percussionist performs the rich musical score live onstage using instruments both ancient and modern – hammered dulcimer, harmonium, and hand drums – interweaving the sound design with field recordings from sites significant to the myths. A radiant video projection design and choreography expand the space — and our understanding of this essential story.
Created and performed by playwright/actress Sylvia Milo and composer/percussionist Nathan Davis, Magdalene: Utterance of my name, is their second collaboration after the critically acclaimed play, The Other Mozart about the forgotten genius sister of Amadeus.
https://utteranceofmyname.com/
Created and Performed by Sylvia Milo and Nathan Davis
Directed, Script by Sylvia Milo
Music and Sound Design by Nathan Davis
Movement Director: Janice Orlandi
Choreographer: Natalie Lomonte
Additional Movement: Joanna Kotze
Video and Projection Design: Monica Duncan
Dramaturg: Jess Applebaum
Costume Design: INNI Magdalena Dąbrowska (Leaf dress and hood by Carlotta Frascara)
Lighting Design: Nick Houfek
Stage Manager, Hair and makeup: Kodi Lynn Milburn
Projectionist: Christine Sikking
Produced by Little Matchstick Factory
