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Monday, 08 December 2008
 A new play by David Rudkin,
Merlin Unchained, will open on 23 January 2009 at the Castle
Theatre Aberystwyth in Wales, should you be in the neighborhood. Rudkin is
best known here in the US for the 1975 play Ashes; his previous plays also include Afore
Night Come, The Sons of Light and The Saxon Shore. David
Ian Rabey will direct.
The new play, like several of these others, reaches back into the dark
history of England and its mythology to shatter contemporary
preconceptions and consciousness:
The aged magician has repudiated human society and lost all memory of
his wondrous and tragic past. He lives like a beast in the wild wood, with
only a wolf and the stars for company. But now the bitter winter is
passing; his memories and powers begin painfully to re-awake:
mysterious forces are summoning him to one last mission in the world,
necessitating a purposeful and ferocious confrontation with the
configurations of power, and obedience to power, which characterise our
own present-day political and ecological dystopia. This remarkable
new play blends the epic, the tragic and the savagely comic with a
Shakespearean ambition and force.
For tickets, contact Ellie McGrath at Aberystwyth University via email.
It's rare that a production of a Howard Barker play in New York slips
under our radar, but The Centrifuge's production of Judith has done so; its final two performances
are tonight and tomorrow at 8.00pm at the Kraine Theatre, 85 East 4th
Street. Tickets available here.
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