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Susurrus: A Fire Exit Production (presented by UMS)
Susurrus is a play without actors, without a stage, and with only one person in the audience — YOU. It is part radio play, part avant-garde sonic art, part lesson in bird dissection, and part stroll through nature. Audiences follow a map around the Matthaei Botanical Gardens as they listen to the piece on an iPod with headphones. The listener hears snippets about opera, memorial benches, and botany, which fit together into a mournful and poignant story of love and loss that is loosely inspired by Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden’s collaboration on Britten’s opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Susurrus was presented to great acclaim and sellout audiences at Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens in 2006 and at the Ediburgh Fringe Festival in 2009, acclaimed by both The Guardian and The Scotsman as one of the top arts events of the year. Times will vary, with groups of four admitted every 15 minutes. The piece includes about a mile of walking on defined trails. Umbrellas provided in case of rain.
Further Event Information
Thursday September 09, 2010
Groups of four admitted every 15 minutes.
Cost: $30
Address: Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N Dixboro Rd Ann Arbor
Phone: 734-764-2538
Email: umstix@umich.edu
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