«Omar Porras» "Amour et Psyché", a journey into the Empyrean

Le Regard Libre N° 38 - Thierry Fivaz

Amour et Psyché was presented at Neuchâtel's Théâtre du Passage on March 27 and 28. Omar Porras' first creation for the TKM (2017): a look back at a moment of wonder.

Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Psyche. The daughter of a king, Psyche was so beautiful and so pure that her audacious and incomparable beauty eventually provoked the wrath of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. The cause of this divine wrath: the young woman’s charms. These were so rare and so marvelous that they could even drive those who beheld them mad. Enchanted, men came to believe that in this young woman they had found a new—and mortal—Venus. And so, little by little, the altars dedicated to the goddess were abandoned in favor of those erected in honor of