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Photograph. A Play in Five Acts was one of a half dozen plays that Stein wrote in 1920. She was thinking about cinema and photography at this time, the postwar moment offering new opportunities to experience these media on a large scale. The play explores technological and biological reproduction via the theme of twinning. In our interpretation, three main voices (V, ME, and THREE) perform a parlour play with a CHORUS of musicians. The play-within-a-play centers on a photograph of a family on the verge of separation. The audio recording is of a live performance of SIX. TWENTY. OUTRAGEOUS:  Three Gertrude Stein Plays in the Shape of an Opera that took place February 11, 2018 at Symphony Space, New York City.

The recording is 35 minutes.