HELIGOLAND FOLLIES
Henri Fabergé's Heligoland Follies - the ambitious follow-up to Feint of Hart - is an episodic "punk opera" combining scripted theatre, improvised comedy, live rock music, video projections, conceptual dance, and ambitious production design.
Synopsis:
The year is 1820. Seeking answers, a wandering ascetic is drawn into an isolated community hell-bent on achieving the utopian ideal. A matriarch preaches scientific rationality cloaked in a spiritual fervour. Activists, romantics, and despots alike will find more conundrums than conclusions on a mysterious red rock in the North Sea ...
It was originally presented as six 60 minute performances, from October 2010 to March 2011, at Hart House (University of Toronto). The series incorporated over 40 performers and played to over-capacity audiences (150+) for its entire run.
