Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Museum Of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago

This Beauty and the Beast leads the audience on a magical journey into real and fabled romance, using love and humor plus a healthy dose of nudity to throw open the doors to acceptance. The artists reach maximum enchantment by employing song, dance, puppetry, and shadow play. Fraser, who plays the Beast, was born with phocomelia and has spent his life entertaining with and through this embodied reality, just as Muz has famously celebrated the power of women's sexuality through her own body. This explicit, adult-themed work repositions the Beast as a natural-born freak to the beauty queen who loves him. Two charming and extravagantly costumed puppeteers interact with Mat for his incarnation from the Beast to Prince for this happily-ever-after story. Muz and Fraser's sweet, raunchy, and unself-conscious coupling is directed by Phelim McDermott, who staged Philip Glass's Satayagraha.

Thru - Dec 11, 2016