The Problem of Spectacle In David Byrne’s Here Lies Love

by Sara PorkalobNot so multifaceted.Navid Baraty
Extended now through June 18 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Here Lies Love is an immersive, 90-minute disco-poperetta chronicling the lives of the infamous Imelda Marcos and the Philippines’ People Power Revolution. The musical collaboration between David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (directed by Alex Timbers) literally transforms the stage of the Bagley Wright into a dance floor where the audience can brush shoulders with the cast, karaoke to t