. gallery . shoreditch
    madonna

Fir Acres Blackbox,
Portland. 2007.

Written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the play takes place in a derelict art space in the slums of Shoreditch and a bedsit in Streatham, London.

Cast.

Crew.

Director/Scenographer. Dani Prados

Asst. to the Director/Publicity.
Erin Dees

Technical Stage Manager. Emily Gregory

Festival Manager. Katy Calder

Sound Design/Video Editing. Jesse Rope

Lighting. Leslie Smith

Costume Design. Emma Lipp.

Technical Consultant. Chris Miklovich

Construction. Katy Calder
Jorn Cheney

Props. Taylor Townsend

Light Op. Rowena Held

Sound Op. Erin Dees

Costume Manager. Enid Moore

Deck Crew. Aaron Dawson
Nick Jorgenson

Electricians. Maya Chensue
Dani Prados
Morgan Shaw—Fox
Iliana Gutierrez
Emily Gregory
Jesse Rope and Co.

Theatrical Superwoman. Joyce Beeny

Photos.

**Photos courtesy of Jesse Rope.

Director´s Notes. (excerpt)

Shoreditch Madonna is an entirely human creation. It has flaws. It is, in many ways, unfinished. It is raw. It is scarred. It is not bloodless. It shivers and spits when you stare too close. It mocks my need for human interaction. It preens like Cleopatra on her burnished throne. And yet my relationship with this mysterious creature has been profound, haunting, unavoidable.

She would want me to talk about the landscape of the hyperreal; how we´re all traveling away from ourselves and from the essences of things. She would want me to mention survival. She would want me to loiter on the inadequacy of language. She would beg me to linger on the splendor of details. She would smile and beckon and lock you and me in a windowless room and leave us there until our fingers met in the dark.

— Dani Prados, April 2007.