MARLENE AND THE MACHINE

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You are all special …
I’m going to help
you fix that.

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Enter a shadowy world in which The Beards blur the lines between humanity, music, and machine.

Marlene and The Machine combines the music of Marlene Dietrich, Fiona Apple, and Regina Spektor with the visual and musical language of German Expressionism. Marlene Dietrich, the well-aged actress is giving musical seminars on emotional control.

Elaborate cardboard cityscapes, live recreations of expressionist films and a host of familiar songs sung in unfamiliar ways mark this late night event. Marlene and the Machine premiered at The Wilma Theater in November 2012.

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