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Saturday, 12 April 2008
Night Planner
The top story in New York this week is the Broadway premiere of Caryl
Churchill's Top Girls; the top story Aussie-side is a world
premiere by one of Australia's most highly-esteemed dramatists. So,
for my readers around the world, a highly selective, prejudiced look at a
few upcoming productions, along with other items of interest:
Tuesday, 15 April: If you haven't yet seen Richard Foreman's
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland, which runs through the end of
April, this might not be a bad evening to stop in; following the
performance tonight, Foreman sits down with another notable Richard,
Richard
Schechner, founder of The Performance Group and current editor of
The Drama Review, for a free post-show talkback. More
information at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre Web site. In
addition, Potatoland actress Fulya Peker (the "Girl with Black
Hair") conducts a unique, fascinating dialogue with Foreman in this
month's edition of the on-line magazine Hyperion.
Wednesday, 16 April: Performances begin this week for Elevator Repair
Service's latest production, The Sound and the Fury: April Seventh,
1928, based on the novel by William Faulkner. John Collins directs a
twelve-person cast for this final presentation of the New York
Theatre Workshop's fine 2007-2008 season. I've not seen ERS's work
before, but given their reputation, I'm looking forward to it. Tickets and
schedule information here. The show runs through 18 May.
Thursday, 17 April: New York alternative theatre enthusiasts can
curl up tonight with New
York Theater Review 2008, the latest edition of the annual
collection of essays and plays, edited by Brook Stowe. This year's edition
includes plays by Taylor Mac, Tommy Smith, and Ping Chong & Sara
Michelle
Zatz, as well as specially-commissioned essays by Victoria Linchong,
Zachary R. Mannheimer and Marya Sea Kaminski. Copies available now at the
Drama Book Shop on 40th Street; I'm promised that it will also be
available at amazon.com quite soon.
Friday, 18 April: Caryl Churchill comes to Broadway this week
when a revival of her early play Top Girls, about a dinner party
for five historical female characters thrown by the new managing director
of an employment agency, opens at the Biltmore Theatre in a production
offered by the Manhattan Theatre Club. James Macdonald directs an
all-star cast, including Mary Beth Hurt, Elizabeth Marvel, Martha
Plimpton and Marisa Tomei. Information here; tickets here.
Saturday, 19 April: Our Sydney readers (and we have a few)
probably already know about this, but our antipodean stragglers need to
get their tickets to Daniel Keene's new double-bill of one-act
plays, The Serpent's Teeth, which opens tonight at the
Sydney Theatre
Company. Citizens is set before a wall in an unnamed country;
Soldiers examines the cost of war to five Australian families. I
wrote about Terminus, Keene's collection of earlier plays, back in
2005 or so here.
I
will be there in spirit.
Posted at 2.37 pm in /Openings
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