Spoleto sets Egoyan opera

'The Agony and also the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' A Chinese opera helmed by Atom Egoyan in addition to stints from Off Broadway alums including Mike Daisey and troupe 7 Doigts are some of the choices on tap in the 2012 Spoleto Festival USA.Also around the docket for that 36th annual carrying out arts fest -- designed by Nigel Redden, who also manages NY's Lincoln subsequently Center Festival -- really are a staging of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" from Dublin's Gate Theater in addition to "The Creatures and kids Required towards the Roads," a multidisciplinary show from U.K. troupe 1927.Egoyan helms composer Guo Wenjing's "Feng Yi Teng," in regards to a meeting that changes Chinese history, having a design team which includes Broadway vet Derek McLane ("Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo"). Like a co-manufacture of Spoleto and also the Lincoln subsequently Center Fest, "Feng Yi Teng" looks poised to look around the 2012 slate in the Gotham arts festival too.Daisey will work his monologue "The Agony and also the Ecstasy of Jobs,Inch which demonstrated popular enough at Off Broadway's Public Theater the 2009 season to warrant an approaching return run, in addition to a piece known as "Teching in India." Canuck company 7 Doigts will stage acrobatics showcase "Traces," also current playing Off Broadway inside a lengthy-term run.One of the other productions around the Spoleto slate are another monologue, "Creating the realityInch from journo Jack Hitt, in addition to dance excursions from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Cedar 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