I hope this is the future
Experimental theatricalist opera just the way such things should be and rarely are. Creators Kara Feely and Travis Just have created a sophisticated collision between elegant formal considerations and the disruptive garbage of a world going down the drain that is exciting and exhilarating. The spectator is swept away in its delirious mix and emerges clear and emotionally refreshed.
Object Collection, my favourite discovery of this year
new music wunderkinder
innovative
Object Collection…must be the new New York.
An Object Collection opera-in-overdrive is a lot to take in, and that’s the way Feely and Just like it.
compelling, disturbing, and shockingly beautiful.
It's shows like this that shut down the NEA
Object Collection's bold, loud and dizzying productions are not to be missed.
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