A SPECIAL one-off screening of Georgina Starr’s Theda, accompanied live by the German soprano Sigune von Osten, takes place at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth, on October 8 at 8pm.
Georgina Starr is known for her large-scale art installations and films. Her major works create complex and emotional narratives inspired by loss or fragile phenomena.
Over the last 20 years Starr has exhibited widely internationally, including exhibitions at Tate Gallery in London, Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Venice Biennale.
Theda is a critically acclaimed film performance inspired by a photograph of a woman who bore an uncanny resemblance to her mother.
The woman transpired to be Theda Bara (1885 – 1955), one of the great silent film actresses.
Starr chose the Bournemouth Pier Theatre as a perfect setting for this unique work, only ever presenting Theda at cinema and theatre venues that she feels are relevant to the piece.
Of all the venues it has been shown in around the world including in London, New York, Toronto and Berlin, Starr said: “The Bournemouth Pier Theatre is a really perfect setting to present this work.
“The history and the spirit of the location echo many of themes within Theda.”
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