O Sonata is a suite of renditions—performances, interpretations, transliterations, transmogrifications— of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonette an Orpheus, presented here as a parallel text. Dramatising the mythic role of Orpheus as “futile Male” (“a dick” according to Eurydice), Chris Edwards’ renditions also comprise interrogations of the lyric impulse, transported here to an “Underland” where “becoming begets begone.”
