Jan Fabre explores the Prometheus myth in daring new theatrical production (photo courtesy Miet Martens / Troubleyn)
Peak Performances, Montclair State University
The Alexander Kasser Theater
One Normal Ave.
January 20-30, $15
www.peakperfs.org
www.troubleyn.be
According to Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus, one of Atlas’s brothers, stole fire from Zeus and gave it to humankind, leading to his eternal punishment, being bound to a mountaintop where an eagle devoured his liver, which grew back every day, only to be eaten again. Multidisciplinary Belgian theater artist Jan Fabre takes on the famous myth in PROMETHEUS — LANDSCAPE II, a ninety-minute Peak Performances commission running at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University January 20-30. Using his own text, “We need heroes now,” along with Jeroen Olyslaegers’s “I am the all-giver,” which is based on Aeschylus’s PROMETHEUS BOUND, Fabre has created what promises to be a shocking night of theater, featuring music by Dag Taeldeman and a ten-member cast from his Troubleyn group.