Raven’s Feather Productions is thrilled to announce that international performance artist Bremner Duthie will be presenting his one-man show, Singing Into the Dark, 1933, here in Helena, September 19-22.
Singing Into the Dark, 1933 gives us a haunting glimpse into the end of the Weimar era before WWII. After the rise of Hitler, the Nazis attacked cultural workers and dragged performers to “re-education” camps. This one-man play is set in an imagined version of a kabarett, Berlin’s Eldorado Club, after Goering ordered the theatres to close. Alone in the ruins, one defiant actor attempts to perform the entire show.
In these tributes, he shows us that celebration and humor are also acts of resistance. Singing Into the Dark, 1933 demonstrates how important it is to fight oppression with both fury and laughter, rage and delight.
Bremner Duthie was born in New York and grew up in Scotland and Canada. He started singing with punk bands in Vancouver, BC, moved on to singing opera, and trained at the Centre for New Opera in Banff, Alberta. On the theatre stage, Bremner has been creating performance pieces that are an emotional collage of ideas and songs. These pieces have been performed across North America and Europe to critical praise.
Singing Into the Dark, 1933 will be presented at the Helena Avenue Theatre September 18-21 at 7:30pm, with a 2pm matinee on September 22. The HAT is located at 1319 Helena Avenue. Advance tickets can be purchased online at the Raven’s Feather website, www.ravensfeather.org/tickets, for $20 each.
