Director, Translator, Adapter Prime Time Series, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
I would call this new adaptation of Giraudoux in the tradition of a new didactic genre: Millennial Dystopian Theatre. Since the rise of COVID and impending doom of the world I predict we will see many other plays delve into this style of storytelling where a dystopian world is given circumstance inherent to the plot structure and world of the play, ideas are centrally located and placed on the stage through embodied characters, the background story is never fully stated, but alluded to and has to be painstaking fleshed out by the creatives. Tempo Rhythm and Mood are at once fast and slow, as time seems to cease to exist, and yet also hurl the story into the future and the Dialogue serves as poetic device, time keeper, and idea conveyer where existential questions about what poetry is can be freely explored. In Millennial Dystopian Theatre we will see digital practices continue to develop, modern concerns about race, sex, gender, ability and globality explored.
