Philadelphia Weekly

Behind the Eye

Gas and Electric Arts continues its tenaciously innovative celebration of bold female playwrights with its new production of Carson Kreitzer’s acclaimed work Behind the Eye. The play focuses on the life and career of Lee Miller, a glamorous model who abandoned the pages of Vogue to become the muse of such prominent 20th-century artists as Picasso, Cocteau and, most notably, Man Ray, with whom she also had a romantic relationship. The visually provocative play has a dreamlike quality in which “the boundaries between time and space, image and memory, emotion and reflection collide, contract and collapse,” says director Lisa Jo Epstein. Mixing real and imaginary moments with linear and nonlinear threads, Epstein says watching the play is akin to rummaging through a collection of unshuffled photographs that eventually reveal both the realism of the era and the surrealism of this enigmatic woman’s singular approach to life. -J. Cooper Robb

7pm. $16-$26. Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St. 215.407.0556.
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WHEN
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Recurring: ONCE

TIME & PRICE
7pm. $16-$26

WHERE
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater , 2111 Sansom St., Philadelphia, PA
One time only on 10/24/2012. .

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