Superfluities Redux

by George Hunka
Artistic director, theatre minima

A Theatre Surrounds a City:
Vienna's Burgtheater

Friday, 16 November 2007

Openings

The Soho Rep's next production comes from Pavol Liska's Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Opening at 66 White Street on Saturday, 8 December, No Dice is a four-hour version of a play almost three times as long, described as "an epic of the everyday blown to transcendental proportions." It was distilled from over 100 hours of taped telephone conversations with actors, friends and family about their jobs, personal problems, aspirations and dreams. The play was first performed at this year's Under-the-Radar festival at the Public Theater; I reviewed their 2006 production of Kelly Copper's Fragment for the Times. Tickets and schedule information here.

Coming up on 26 November, the Monday after Thanksgiving, are two shows: it'll be tough to decide which to attend. First, the Peculiar Works Project is producing a benefit staged reading of William M. Hoffman and Anthony Holland's Cornbury: The Queen's Governor, a play about Edward Hyde, royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1701 through 1708, and perhaps one of the most corrupt politicians of his or any other time. (A transvestite, too, the press release suggests!) The cast includes David Greenspan and New Georges artistic director Susan Bernfield. Reservations via Theatremania here.

Art is for sale, in more ways than one, at Annie Dorsen's Democracy in America launch party, to be held at Joe's Pub on Monday, 26 November, at 9:30pm. A new project by the Foundry Theatre, Democracy in America is described as a "user-generated theatre project"; on the 26th, Dorsen and company will auction off parts of their next production to members of the audience, who can "buy anything they desire to see onstage (limited only by what is safe and legal)." The resulting play will be performed at PS122 in spring 2008. Ten dollars gets you in the door; what you spend after that is up to you. Joining Annie Dorsen will be Tony Torn, Okwui Okpokwasili and others. Culturebot's Andy Horwitz has more information here.

And one closing: the Theatre of a Two-headed Calf's Drum of the Waves of Horikawa offers its final performances tonight and tomorrow at HERE.

Posted at 11.29 am in /Openings

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