When we are first introduced to Geryon, his autobiography is a sculpture that he’s making out of things he finds around the house. His self-documentation becomes a recurring motif throughout the play. He’s the kind of guy who’s always being interrupted in the middle of his contemplative inner monologues. He is moody but endearing and feels sorely misunderstood by almost everyone. In Red, Geryon, played by musician and actor Mich Cota, is reimagined as an artsy, sensitive, teenage boy, burdened by a pair of red wings that he hides under his trench coat. Adapted by writer/director Phoebe Fregoli (a fourth-year Concordia student studying women’s studies and creative writing) from the Anne Carson novel-in-verse by the same name, Tuesday Night Café Theatre ’s production of Autobiography of Red is a Greek myth transposed to mid-20th century rural southern Ontario.Īccording to ancient legend, the play’s protagonist, Geryon, is a fearsome monster with one body and three heads who is brutally killed by the divine hero Herakles.
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