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LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects Present Mary Kouyoumdjian and Royce Vavrek's Adoration at REDCAT

Feb. 28, 2025

Mary Kouyoumdjian and Royce Vavrek's Adoration made its West Coast debut at REDCAT in a production that ran from February 19-23. A collaboration between LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects, Adoration was premiered at the Prototype Festival in NYC last season.

An adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s 2008 film of the same name, Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a harrowing news event as something perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his community and on the internet to highlight the challenges of intolerance and racism in our society. The fictional and actual circumstances of the loss of Simon’s family are revealed in fragments, only fitting together with the final revelation that the prejudices of Simon’s maternal grandfather led to his parents’ deaths.

Adoration tells two simultaneous stories—a fictional story of terrorism and betrayal juxtaposed with a real story of family strife and rejection of something foreign.


Trailer: Adoration

To learn more about Mary Kouyoumdjian, visit psnymusic.com and marykouyoumdjian.com.

Mary Kouyoumdjian
Adoration
text (Eng) by Royce Vavrek
90'

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