Especially given the show is the first commissioned Englert work, possibly paving the way for potential successors. get the emotional feel of it I don’t have to stage a three-minute-long fist fight that becomes a murder.”Ĭarrying the weight of the show, as the principal character, might make many nervous. If I can use the dancers to use a representational form of that, I don’t have to rely as much on the actors.
“It’s a really language-heavy piece because the book is huge and is that heavy on the linguistics and word play. “ allowed me to abstract the world,” Lewis said.
The added features make it possible to create the “unstageable” play. To balance the linguistic force of Bruno in the show, Lewis brought in various other elements, including video, sound effects, and dancers from the New Territory Dance Company. Of the 100-page script, adapted by director Sean Lewis from Benjamin Hale’s book of the same name, 70 pages are dominated by Bruno’s thoughts and words. “ has evolved past human beings he has alienated himself on purpose back in the laboratory after murdering a doctor,” Vaxter said. He tries to contain his original animal nature in pursuit of becoming something truly human. “His memoir is that, at one point, he was a chimpanzee, three or four years ago … His hope is that he’s come to share how the laws of evolution and the laws of language should be used so that the people in the audience can evolve, too.”ĭespite beginning life as a chimp, Bruno evolves into a type of chimpanzee-human hybrid with passions for painting, philosophy, and music. This novel goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human-to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail.“ begins the narrative by explaining how he’s come to save the audience from their impending destruction by giving them his memoir,” said Barrington Vaxter, the actor playing the title role. Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest and amazingly accomplished. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Bruno is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Hale will read from and sign his critically acclaimed debut novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore ($24.99 Twelve). He has been a night shift baker, a security guard, a trompe l’oeil painter, a pizza deliverer, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. Colfax Avenue: A Colorado native, now living in New York, Benjamin Hale is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received a Provost’s Fellowship to complete his novel, which went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award.
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