PORN
by András Visky
Fall 2012
Porn (1989. A butterfly.)
A warehouse on Chicago Avenue
by Andras Visky
translated by Ailisha O’Sullivan
directed by Eva Patko
featuring Melissa Lorraine, Ezra Colon, Evan Hill, and Stanley
Staged in a rat-infested warehouse in the Ukrainian Village, Porn marked the third Visky play staged by Theatre Y, inspired by his own life under communism. An international collaboration with Hungarian/ Romanian director Eva Patko, the play was adapted from the then recently released secret files of the Romanian Communist dictatorship. An actress, codename PORN, performs theater for street children—a very suspicious and irrational act to be sure, a woman needing to be contained. A story about love at all cost, the fight to speak your mind in the face of censorship, Patko’s production featured live video surveillance; haunting images burned onto the surface of the fresh and fast moving staging: a straight jacket, briefcases, backroombureaucracy, an old man’s sunglasses, a piece of half-eaten fruit, and one small skeleton…Porn (1989. A butterfly.) tells the story of one woman’s lethal valor. In the title role, Lorraine was named one of the stars of 2012 by the Chicago Reader.
Photo credit: Devron Enarson
