"Yes, Adam Noorian" was a billingual (Armenian/English) theatrical experience that opened on January 2017 in the Atwater Village Theater and sold out entirly for 7 nights. The show was admired by the majority of audience and was applauded for its daring and innovative ideas.
How was I involved?
Idea and concept development
Directing and Producing
Network and Marketing
Highlight: First Experience in Literary adaptation
Written by Hagob Karapents, The Book of Adam is a timeless novel, that keeps giving.
Dro Arzoian plays Adam Noorian in a flashback scene.
Dzovig Seferian as Melineh Moorhead
Project Outlines
Structure
A stage performance by defenition, Yes Adam Noorian, barrows several elements of new media and film technology to manage Karapents' fluid stream of consciousness as he constantly jumps between past and present within the same paragraph.
A stage made of two projection displays with one casting visuals on an opaque screen, that seperates actors from the audience is drawing the lines between our constructed worldviews, media and the reality. This is the core essence of the world in which the story takes place.
Main Ideas
On the surface, Adam Noorian is about the immigrant experience, but behind this early notion, there are several layers of human condition, interpersonal relationships, identity crisis and submission to technology that are explored.
Duality is also a major theme as Adam and his alter-ego Giragos began to diverge along the way, representing a moemnt of clarity where one decides to put the mask away and live a real life.
Execution
The project began in 2010, when the first drafts of the screenplay were written, but it took a serious turn when rehearsals began and prelemenary scenes were shot. About 30 percent of the story takes place on the screen, which required days of filming with most of the leading cast and crew.
The films were then enriched with sound design and motion graphics and placed within a Q-lab platform for the actors to match their lines and mis-en-scenes with it. From this point on everything else was about focus and practice.