Thirty years ago the release of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis was so significant to young men and women they defined themselves in relationship to it.
The Kaohsiung production of The Lamb is unlikely to attract quite the same attention, but it should be an interesting show nevertheless, with three musicians from Logical Productions (Terry Engels, Dave Wilke and Shaw Cunningham) taking care of the soundtrack live on stage, and a film of the story by Alex Williams simultaneously projected onto two screens.
"To make Kaohsiung look like New York wasn't easy," says producer and director Brad Loghrin, of Riveting Theater Productions. "But the stuff outside New York, where it's supposed to be pretty weird, that was easier."
In Loghrin's adaptation of Peter Gabriel's original story, Rael, a Puerto Rican "street punk" (Francis Stirling) is absorbed by a wall and floats off to another plane of existence.
"It's about the spiritual journey of a young man, who comes to a point where he has to make choices between the things he wants to do and the things he is responsible for," Loghrin says.
All the shows will be performed at ATT Music Pub in Kaohsiung. Walk 100m west from the train station until you come to Lane 91 of Jianguo 3rd Road, turn left and the ATT is 25m down the lane. The show begins tomorrow at 10pm. There are also shows on Sunday, 4pm; June 25 and 26, July 2 and 3, at 10pm; and June 27 and July 4 at 4pm. Evening performances are NT$200, afternoon NT$150.
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