Premiered on: April 5th 2024, at the Gene Frankel Theatre, NYC/ with Lisa Monde playing Adolf/Adolfina Assange
State: Running until April 27th 2024
Creators: Written by Lisa Monde, Inspired by “Diary of a Genius” by Salvador Dali. Directed by Lisa Monde and Thomas R Gordon. / Produced by MONLI International Company LLC and the Onomatopoeia Theatre Company
Featuring: Dyllan Vallier, John Higgins, Lisa Monde, Mac Stevenson, Seth Andrew Miller, Ryan Wasserman, Sondrine Lee Bontemps, Habin Kwak, Leslie Renee.
Produce Issued: Playbill/ Stagebill, Postcards, Business cards, Special Show Merchandise available at https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/the-onomatopoeia-theatre-company/65df5953f758300b01fe2f7a/merchandise
A film special of the live production to be released in Fall 2024
Brief summary:
Salvador Dali worshiped the famous psychoanalyst – Doctor Sigmund Freud, ardently wished to meet him and discuss his own complexes as well as paranoia. One such meeting had occurred, but the exhausting imaginary conversations with Doctor Freud continued.
Once, in a dream, Dali visits a sanitarium, where he becomes witness to the sessions of psychoanalysis held by Doctor Freud and, eventually, the painter finds himself on the doctor’s couch! So, who is he – a genius or a paranoiac? The surrealistic fog which envelops the figure of Dali starts to dissipate…
Cast: Dyllan Vallier as Salvador Dali, John Higgins as Sigmund Freud, Lisa Monde as Adolf/Adolfina, Mac Stevenson as Pierre/Eva/Euterpe, Seth Andrew Miller as Frank, Ryan Wasserman as Stein, Sondrine Lee Bontemps as Yin, Habin Kwak as Yang, Leslie Renee as Coco Chanel.
Crew:
Directed by Lisa Monde and Thomas R Gordon
Set Design – Steven Kendall
Costume Design and Props – Michel Gutierrez
Music and Sound Design – Lisa Monde
Lighting Design – Thomas R Gordon
Make-up Design – Margie Bresciani
Press Representative – Andrea Alton and Alto PR.
Original Choreography by Lisa Monde and Dyllan Vallier
Original music by Lisa Monde
Music Arrangements by Juan Carlos Rivero, Eugene Drayer
Poster Design by Alexey Loginov, featuring the original artwork by Salvador Dali Production Adviser on all things Conscious and Subconscious – MD, PhD Karla Duke
