Written, Directed, and Composed by Rinde Eckert, Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Scenic and Lighting Design by Carrie Mullen
“Fate and Spinoza” is a script-based movement piece, that explores philosophical ideas about light, time, sight, perception, and meaning. It follows a loose plot about a scientist who visits the “ghost” of her youth, a famous painter she once modeled for, who has died under mysterious circumstances and left his empty loft studio. The Director and I collaborated when the piece was just a loose idea centered around the ideas of philosophers David Hume and Baruch Spinoza , and the set helped to shape the script. The set became the actors playground. Three large easels serve as the lens to the past (easel with scrim), present (empty easel),and the unknowable, un-seeable future (black board easel). The easels are based on the easels used by famous painter Mark Rothko.
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