Madness and Lust in Columbus

A dance performance in Columbus, OH with Brontë connections:

Shadowbox Live presents
Desire
Select Wednesdays & Thursdays
7:30 p.m. Aug. 15, Aug. 16, Aug. 22-23, Sept. 5-6, Sept. 12-13, Sept. 19-20, Sept. 26-27, Oct. 3-4, Oct. 17-18, Oct. 24-25, Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and Nov. 7-8; and 2 and 7 p.m. Nov. 4

In an unexpected, late night encounter on a college ca
mpus, two English professors match wits in a discussion about literature’s greatest lovers, from Romeo + Juliet to Gomez + Morticia Addams.  As their conversation analyzes the mechanics of love, walls crumble and a connection blossoms.  But will fiction become fact for these two academics?
Jimmy Mak’s intimate script weaves through Katy Psenicka’s kinetic translation of our favorite stories of love, lust, devotion, and passion, with music from artists like Seal, Muse, Sade, Coldplay, and Nine Inch Nails.
Desire celebrates the joy, pain, and power of love.

The Columbus Dispatch gives the details:

Summit Starr sings persuasively of “Madness” in an ode to the extreme delayed gratification of Catherine (Amy Lay) and Heathcliff (Walker) in “Wuthering Heights,” in an excerpt from “Madness and Lust,” Shadowbox Live’s full-length dance-theater piece inspired by Emily Brontë’s novel. (Michael Grossberg)