The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth
Press Release

The incomparable Fides Krucker appears in The girl with no door on her mouth
an interdisciplinary music event Toronto, February 28, 2001...

Good Hair Day Productions is proud to present The girl with no door on her mouth, a potent evening of interdisciplinary electroacoustic musical pieces, starring contemporary vocalist Fides Krucker and featuring the music of Gavin Bryars, Rainer Weins and a world premiere from Wende Bartley with libretto by Anne Carson. This lush vocal installation opens April 10 and runs to April 28 at Theatre Passe Muraille's Backspace, 16 Ryerson Avenue. BOX OFFICE: 416-504-7529.

Drawing on her "disturbing eloquence of voice and movement" (Toronto Star), the "magnificently gifted" (Vancouver Province) Krucker embarks on a visceral voyage through loss, destitution, transformation and beauty. Krucker will exercise her remarkable stage presence and vocal range to weave three differing pieces into one visceral theatrical voyage, taking the audience on an emotional journey that highlights the profound relationship between a human being's existence and the environment. The intimate setting of Passe Muraille's Backspace will also be transformed into a work of art through three-dimensional sculpture, light and sound.

The White Lodge is a sumptuous electroacoustic piece for voice and audiotape using a passage from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Gavin Bryars music takes the audience deep into the resonances of the ocean while Krucker assumes the perspective of the novel's Captain Nemo describing the haunting miracle of
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