Spoleto sets Egoyan opera

'The Agony as well as the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' A Chinese opera helmed by Atom Egoyan additionally to stints from Off Broadway alums including Mike Daisey and troupe 7 Doigts are the options on tap within the 2012 Spoleto Festival USA.Also round the docket for your 36th annual undertaking arts fest -- created by Nigel Redden, who also handles NY's Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center Festival -- certainly are a staging of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" from Dublin's Gate Theater additionally to "The Animals and youngsters Needed for the Streets," a multidisciplinary show from U.K. troupe 1927.Egoyan helms composer Guo Wenjing's "Feng Yi Teng," of a meeting that changes Chinese history, getting a design team including Broadway vet Derek McLane ("Bengal Tiger within the Baghdad Zoo"). Just like a co-output of Spoleto as well as the Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center Fest, "Feng Yi Teng" looks poised to to research the 2012 slate within the Gotham arts festival too.Daisey works his monologue "The Agony as well as the Ecstasy of Jobs,Inch which shown popular enough at Off Broadway's Public Theater this year's season to warrant an approaching return run, additionally to some piece referred to as "Teching in India." Canuck company 7 Doigts will stage acrobatics showcase "Traces," also current playing Off Broadway in the extended-term run.Among the other productions round the Spoleto slate are another monologue, "Creating the realityInch from journo Jack Hitt, additionally to bop activities from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Cedar plank plank Lake Contemporary Ballet. Selection includes the U.S. preem of Philip Glass opera "Kepler."The 2012 edition of Spoleto Festival USA runs May 25-June 10 in Charleston, S.C. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com