How the Expressionist Monodramatic Character’s Sense of Alienation Resurges in 2014 Monodrama BUG Trilogy by Arturo Corrales
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This article explores my collaboration as a performer with Salvadoran/Swiss composer Arturo Corrales, from the gestation and preparation to the premiere of his triptych BUG. It observes the development of BUG from three separate pieces into a fully fledged mise-en-scène. The guitarist/actor must speak and play a sequence of words and gestures that are designed to break down both semantic meaning in language and ideas of virtuosity and perfection in music. Text and music articulate to create an alienated character that suffers hysterical symptoms, while the other instrumentalists continuously threaten him, remaining frighteningly trapped in the centre of the stage.
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