Erling Wold's Fabrications and Underworld Opera present
UKSUS
Oakland Metro Opera House
Tuesday 30 August 8pm
Wednesday 31 August 8pm
Saturday 3 September 8pm
Sunday 4 September 2pm
A phantasmagoria of delights, the music jazzy, racous, but bitterly sweet, UKSUS is an autobiography of Daniil Kharms and the OBERIU in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, a narrative told through their stories and brief lives, as the OBERIU - The Association for Real Art - maintained their love of words and nonsensical art to their deaths in Stalin’s Great Purge, Kharms starving to death in a psychiatric hospital in 1942 after his arrest at the hands of the NKVD.
Directed by Jim Cave / Conducted by Bryan Nies / Designed by Lynne Rutter
Starring Timur Bekbosunov as Pushkin, Laura Bohn as Fefjulka, Nikola Printz as Stalin, the unparalleled Bob Ernst as Michelangelo, and Roham Sheikani as many many things; accompanied by:
Beth Custer, Rob Wilkins, Joel Davel, Diana Strong,
John Schott, Ela Polak,
Lisa Mezzacappa.
Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.