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Release Date:
May 12, 2016
Original Title:
Tell Me Love Is Real
Genres:
Comedy | Documentary | Drama | Music
Production Companies:
BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen
Black Box Teater Oslo
Gessnerallee Zürich
NEXT Arts Festival
Teaterhuset Avant Garden Trondheim
brut Wien
deSingel Antwerp
kunstencentrum BUDA
Production Countries:
Belgium
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 74
In the winter of 2012, two famous American performance artists sat in anonymous hotel rooms on the West Coast, waiting to take the stage, and in a bizarre coincidence, over-dosed on the anxiety drug Xanax. One survived, one did not. The two individuals are Whitney Houston, who tragically died, and the author of this piece, who lived. Incarcerated in a psychiatric ward, the author began an arduous and experimental journey towards recovery. What is life, and why should we live it, having had it thrust upon us like the assigned reading of a baffling mystery novel, the chapters jumbled, the text often incomprehensible? In the thirty-seven years of life leading up to this event, we find a simple but elusive answer: Love.
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Director:
Zachary Oberzan
Dramaturgy:
Nicole Schuchardt
Editor:
Zachary Oberzan
Lighting Technician:
David Lang
Producer:
Zachary Oberzan
Production Manager:
Nicole Schuchardt
Set Designer:
Eike Bottcher
Sound Engineer:
David Lang
Writer:
Zachary Oberzan
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