Posted: 11/13/15 at 10:40pm
There's not a lot of new stuff here, but this is the most I've heard about his new Bunuel-based musical:
Yes, I'm writing a show with David Ives, the playwright who wrote Venus in Fur. We decided to take two movies by Luis Buñuel, one of the first surrealists in the 1930s. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is about a group of upper-middle-class people trying to find a place to have dinner. Odd things happen in the restaurant; there's a wake being held right in the kitchen. That's the first part of the show; the second part is another movie that he made called The Exterminating Angel. It's about another group of people, also upper-middle-class, who arrive at this elegant mansion for a large dinner and they can't leave. They get their dinner, but something ... it's not like a glass wall; it's a reluctance to leave. They stay in this one room for weeks, running out of food and water. They're trapped within their own desire.
