Friday, March 11, 12:00 EST

Max Yeshaya Brumberg-Kraus (they/them)

Founder of the House of Larva Drag Co-Operative Social Media: Facebook | Patreon | Instagram

Performer, Playwright, Poet, Independent Scholar

Island Witches, Desert Prophets: Site Specific Theatre, Mythopoetics, and the Sanctification of Land.

Theopoet, performer, and author Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus will present on the hybrid ecologies that form when imagined/mythological landscapes, personal/somatic landscapes, and physical/geographic landscapes are joined in site specific, contemporary theatrical productions of myths. Brumberg-Kraus will share about two of their plays, Circe: Twilight of a Goddess, produced in 2021 with Siren Island at the Point San Pablo Harbor in Point Richmond, CA, and the script Divinities of the Sun, about the legendary poet Orpheus, with its hopeful upcoming 2023 production in the desert outside LA. Thinking of the plays' written content and the specific methods used in rehearsal and performance as a starting point, this presentation opens up a conversation about how we all experience ecosystems through a combination of cultural mythologies, personal memories, and physical encounters.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://uni-potsdam.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MldOysrz0sEtYeinP5lHcrZQg1gR3f7tDl