Superfluities Redux
On culture and theatre, by George Hunka
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Friday, 18 January 2008
Lucian Freud. Esther. 1991.
Etching.
Plate: 8 5/8 x 8" (22 x 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 17 3/8 x 15 1/2" (44 x 39.3 cm)
(See entry for 25 January.)
A highly selective, prejudiced look at the theatrical week ahead, along with other items of interest:
Saturday, 19 January: One of our favorite companies, the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, is letting its hair down this winter and spring with Room for Cream, a continuing lesbian-themed soap opera, at La MaMa ETC, 74A East 4th Street. Episode 2, "The Flashback," is performed today at 5.30pm. Future episodes will appear on the first and third Saturdays of each month through June, same time, same place. "Join us," they write, "as we follow the espresso-laced exploits of dykes in distress, lesbians in love, queers in ... well, you get the point." I guess you do. More info at the La MaMa ETC Web site. Tickets are only $8.00.
Sunday, 20 January: Through 13 April, the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers blog.mode: addressing fashion, the first in a series of exhibitions examining the way we present our bodies to the world: through our clothes. The title of the show? A reference to one of our own new modes of communication, the blog.
Monday, 21 January: Down at his Flea Theatre, artistic director Jim Simpson directs the Flea's resident company, the Bats, in a revival of Peter Handke's 1966 Offending the Audience, one of the Austrian playwright's earliest metatheatrical works. Previews begin tonight in advance of a 31 January opening; a rare New York production of a Handke play. More information at the Flea's Web site.
Tuesday, 22 January: Karole Armitage's Armitage Gone! Dance Company premieres part three of their "Dream Trilogy," Connoisseurs of Chaos. Armitage and designer David Salle base this most recent piece on Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field. Tonight through 27 January, more information here. Armitage also choreographs the upcoming Broadway production of Passing Strange, the musical by Stew, Heidi Rodewald and Annie Dorsen, which opens in February at the Belasco.
Wednesday, 23 January: There's still time to catch Edward the Second, the Red Bull Theater's production of the Christopher Marlowe tragedy; it's been extended through 27 January. I wrote about the show on 17 December of last year; tickets at Ticket Central.
Thursday, 24 January: Brooke Berman's new comedy Hunting and Gathering, about that most terrifying of New York life experiences, the apartment hunt, begins previews tonight at Primary Stages, 59 East 59th Street, at 8.00pm. (I'd suggest it was more appropriate for an Artaudian Theatre of Cruelty approach, but opinions can differ.) Their production last summer of Opus, Michael Hollinger's play concerning the dissolution of a string quartet, was a highly pleasurable evening. More information on the show and ticket information at the Primary Stages Web site; the show runs through 1 March. And Ms. Berman also has a blog of her own.
Friday, 25 January: One of our most respected contemporary portraitists is the subject of a new exhibition called Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings at the Museum of Modern Art through 10 March. Along with 75 of Freud's etchings, the show will also include a selection of his paintings and drawings. There's an online exhibition as well. (If you're chafing at MoMA's $20.00 ticket price, not to worry; admission is free every Friday evening from 4.00 to 8.00pm.)
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