THE LIFE AND INFLUENCE OF LEONORA CARRINGTON: A SYMPOSIUM
In conjunction with the exhibition Leonora Carrington: The Story of the Last Egg (May 23 — June 29, 2019, 926 Madison Avenue, New York), Gallery Wendi Norris presents a symposium on Carrington’s work and her influence in a contemporary context.
The symposium begins with a dramatic reading of Carrington’s previously unpublished play Opus Siniestrus: The Story of the Last Egg. Written in 1970, Opus Siniestrus: The Story of the Last Egg is a sort of magical tragi-comedy, conjuring a world in which all women have died except one, a “colossally fat old lady of 80, the ex-madam of a brothel,” who gains possession of the last surviving human egg, and holds the fate of the planet in her hands.
The play will be directed by Jean Randich, and features eight actors playing multiple characters. Although Opus Siniestrus was written nearly 50 years ago, it is a visionary ecofeminist work that could have been written today, and echoes subjects and ideas in Carrington’s other writing and art works.
