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Friday, 09 May 2008
Night Planner
Shalimar Wishes You
a Happy
Mother's Day
(See entry for 14 May)
A highly selective, prejudiced look at a few upcoming productions,
along with other items of interest:
Saturday, 10 May: The unofficial 2007-2008 Edward Albee
theatre season in New York concludes this week with the opening of
Occupant, Albee's recent play about sculptor Louise Nevelson.
The Signature Theatre Company production stars Mercedes Ruehl and Larry
Bryggman under the direction of Pam MacKinnon; Occupant runs
through 6 July. More information at the Signature Theatre Company's Web
page for the show.
Monday, 12 May: Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna of Poland's TR
Warszawa theatre company will talk to Susan Feldman, artistic director
of St. Ann's Playhouse, about his upcoming Brooklyn production of
Macbeth tonight at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 Fifth
Avenue. TR Warszawa is one of Poland's leading contemporary theatre
companies, revisioning theatrical traditions for the contemporary stage;
Jarzyna's production of Medea at Vienna's Burgtheater won the 2007
Nestroy-Preis. The evening is co-presented by the Polish Cultural
Institute, which is almost single-handedly bringing the best of
Polish theatre to New York. The talk is free and begins at 6.30pm.
Wednesday, 14 May: Performance group The Shalimar returns their show, the
whimsically-titled La Femme Est Morte, or Why I Should Not Fuck My
Son, to New York at PS122 tonight. Perhaps you've guessed that it's
Phaedra once again. Directed by Shoshona Currier, the company-created
work features a text compiled from Georges Bataille's My Mother,
Seneca's version of the tragedy, and speeches by George Patton and Douglas
MacArthur. Montage, anyone? Before you cavil, consider that the
show won The Stage award for Best Ensemble at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, and that a critic for the dour, salmon-colored Financial
Times called Shalimar "The most exciting young company I have seen up
here so far this century." And, according to the Web site, "Flash
photography is encouraged." Cheeky! La Femme Est Morte runs through
24 May; more information via PS122.
Thursday, 15 May: The Ontological-Hysteric Incubator's
"Short Form 2008" series runs tonight through Saturday, 17 May. Curators
Brendan Regimbal and Peter Ksander describe the series as "an
interdisciplinary forum that gives artists from a variety of backgrounds
including theater, performance art, dance and installation, the
opportunity to test the boundaries of compositional performance and refine
their own unique form and style by creating a small repertoire of four
10-minute performances that are thematically connected, but independent
pieces of art." This weekend's performances will feature work by Tina
Satter, The Paper Industry, The Plastic Arts and The American Story
Project. More information about the festival here; a paltry $10.00 gets you in the door.
Reservations here.
Posted at 8.44 am in /Openings
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