SPRING 2006 progams
U.S. theatre series
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SPRING 2006 progams U.S. theatre series |
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An Evening with Director Ruben Polendo, Theater Mitu, New York Discover the New York ensemble company Theater Mitu and its Artistic Director Ruben Polendo. Described by the New York Times as "Outside the boundaries of Western drama," Polendo and Theater Mitu aim to "use the power of the theatrical to strengthen the soul of the community” and “explore and transliterate ancient ritual and performance traditions to generate a vibrant theatrical vocabulary . . . call[ed] Whole Theater.” Whole Theatre is“defined as a theatrical experience whose form is rigorously visual, aural, emotional, intellectual and spiritual” (www.theatermitu.org). Ruben Polando, Theater Mitu’s artistic director, has written and directed original plays and adaptations, including The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Odyssey, Four Saints in Mexico (inspired by Gertrude Stein), Opheliamachine (inspired by Heiner Müller), The Shakespeare Project (an adaptation of Macbeth and King Lear), The Noh Cycle (inspired by Zeami), La Donna Serpente (inspired by Gozzi's writings and the Japanese myth of the white snake), Catholica Book I and II, But Above All...(inspired by Anton Chekhov), Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait of Pain (based on the diary of Frida Kahlo), The Tutor (based on texts by Brecht, Büchner and Lenz), and Dhammashok (RMT/Mark Taper Forum, 2004). Upcoming projects include Everyman (an adaptation of the medieval morality play), Thomas and Magdalene (an exploration of the Apocryphal books of the Bible), and Sister Sarah, Brother Sky (an investigation of the American Myth/Musical Guys and Dolls). Theater Mitu will hold an open rehearsal and discuss the process of creating their latest production: The Myth Cycle: Ahraihsak. Co-sponsored by Theatre Mitu. 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 6, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code. 6778. Free |
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Dhammashok Courtesy of Theatre Mitu |
RAMA Courtesy of Theatre Mitu |
Ruben Polendo Courtesy of Theatre Mitu |
The Mac Wellman School of Playwriting Mac Wellman is one of the best-known New York dramatists. Teaching at CUNY since 1999 as the Donald I. Fine Professor of Playwriting at Brooklyn College, Wellman has also taught at Brown, Yale, NYU, and The Flea Theater. He has mentored some of the most important voices in the younger generation— Melissa Gibson, Neena Beber, Sarah Ruhl, Adam Bock; and more recently emerging talents like Erin Courtney, Madelyn Kent, Thomas Bradshaw, and Young Jean Lee. Also a novelist and poet, Wellman has received several OBIES, the most recent for Lifetime Achievement. Meet Mac Wellman and his students for readings and a discussion. With Una Chaudhuri, in collaboration with the Classic Stage Company. Mac Wellman's recent plays are: Bitter Bierce, at P S 122; Jennie Richee, with the Ridge Theater, at The Arts at St. Ann; Anything’s Dream at Mulhenberg College; and Antigone, with Big Dance Company at Dance Theater Workshop. He has published two novels with Sun & Moon Press: The Fortuneteller and Annie Salem; Sun & Moon also published A Shelf In Woop’s Clothing, a book of poems, From the Other Side of the Century II, an anthology of plays (co-edited with Douglas Messerli), Two Plays: The Land Beyond the Forest, and Crowtet 1 and 2. The latter two volumes were published under the Green Integer imprint. Roof Books has recently published his Miniature, a book of poems. He has received numerous award: NEA, NYFA, Rockefeller, McNight, and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1990 he received an OBIE for Best American Play (Bad Penny, Crowbar, and Terminal Hip). In 1991 He received another OBIE for Sincerity Forever. He has received a Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Writer Award, and most recently, the 2003 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement. 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 13, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code 6944. Free |
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Double Edge Theatre: The Bruno Schulz Project Join us for an evening to meet Double Edge Theatre and their upcoming project: Under the Sign of the Crocodile, based on the mythic and visual world of Polish artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). Double Edge will interweave its signature style—visceral, intimate, imagistic, and musical, with Schulz's life and his provocative, erotic, and lush imagination to create a magic realism journey with flight as a metaphor for our modern mythic reality, from images of Icarus, to Da Vinci's glider, and than to space shuttles. Double Edge Theatre creates performances on a working farm in rural Ashfield, MA. Double Edge Theatre's mission is to develop and promote the highest quality original theatre performance based on the principle of long-term work of the actor and his/her interaction with the communities in which the work takes place; and to create at its home, “The Farm,” a permanent center of performance, practice, training, research, and cultural exchange which elevates the understanding of artistic expression and cultural mutuality between artists and their communities. Double Edge Theatre has created a six-part Women's Cycle and the Song Trilogy about the Jewish Diaspora. In 1998, Double Edge began an exploration of personal identity, resulting in Relentless and The UnPOSSESSED, which are the first two performances of the theatre's current cycle, The Garden of Intimacy and Desire. Relentless and The UnPOSSESSED toured nationally and internationally. Double Edge creates extra-theatrical research and exchange projects, such as Republic of Dreams (1992-8), a Central European/Jewish-American exchange held in Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, and, in 1997, the Spiral Mirror, a US/Argentina performance and training project, which has brought guest artists to The Farm and sent US artists to Argentina and Chile. 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 24, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code. 6779. Free |
Celebrating 100 Years of Clifford Odets Join us for a day-long celebration of Clifford Odets’s 100th birthday. Odets has been called the most distinctive and significant American playwright of the 1930s, and his body of work remains a lasting contribution to the American theatre. Born in Philadelphia, in 1906, he began his career as a writer of radio plays and a bit actor in stock companies. In 1931 he joined the famed Group Theatre. His works include Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, Paradise Lost, Rocket to the Moon, and Golden Boy. He worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, where he died in 1963. Harold Clurman wrote: “No American playwright since O’Neill has been more greatly gifted than Odets." With authors and Odets scholars Hal Cantor, Ellen Schiff, Gabriel Miller, and Christopher Herr. Also directors and playwrights Steve Lawson and Daniel Fish, and Group Theatre experts Wendy Smith and Matthew Andrews, and many other theatre artists. In collaboration with the Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish Studies. Downlad a copy of the Odets Celebration program here as a Word Document or PDF.
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Daytime Film and Symposium 10:00 am —6 pm, Monday, June 5, 2006, Proshansky Auditorium
Proshansky Auditorium Evening Celebration 6:30 pm—8 pm, Monday, June 5, 2006 Readings of scenes from Odets's plays, the film of Odets's last TV interview, and an excerpt from I Can't Sleep, Steve Lawson's adaptation of Odets's 1940 journal, The Time Is Ripe. Proshansky Auditorium |
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