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Laurie Amat, as Marceline ; Rachael Wylie, as Marie ; Deborah Gwinn, as Spontanette ; Ken Berry, as numerous patriarchs ; Jim Cave, narrator and Celestial Bridegroom ; Tod Brody, flute/piccolo ; Peter Josheff, clarinet/bass clarinet ; Melissa Vainio, horn ; Fred Morgan, percussion ; Marja Mutru, piano/synthesizer ; Ellen Ruth Rose, viola ; Hugh Livingston, violoncello ; Deirdre McClure, conductor
In the course of browsing an illustrated book of objects-umbrellas, watches, tools, clothes-artist Max Ernst was struck by the items' unusual juxtapositions. By manipulating the Victorian-era engravings into striking tableaux and adding brief captions, Ernst invented the collage novel and transformed banal advertising art into revealing dramas rooted in his dreams and secret desires. A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil was originally published in 1930 as R̊ve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. Its hallucinatory visions center on the nightmares of a girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and resolves to become a nun. Ernst, a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealistic art, blends humor and irony in his exploration of the non-rational but very real intersection of religious ecstasy and erotic desire. A century after its debut, this profoundly peculiar book retains its shock value as well as its imaginative power
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