Guggenheim Museum Presents U.S. Premiere of REIGEN ad lib April 28-30

U.S. Theater Premiere REIGEN ad lib- Performed by Dutch theater collective Dood Paard
Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29, 8 pm
Saturday, April 30, 3 pm and 8 pm

Dood Paard, an Amsterdam-based theater collective working without a director or set designer, performs REIGEN ad lib, a verbatim and uniquely contemporary staging of playwright Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen (Full Circle, 1897). Schniztler's writings are best known in the U.S. through recent adaptations such as the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut or David Hare's Broadway production The Blue Room, both starring Nicole Kidman. Scandalous during its time, Reigen was banned for more than 20 years, with only one unauthorized performance in Budapest in 1912. Performing on vintage mattresses, Dood Paard members are costumed in underwear and gaudy attire while sexual acts are intimated through stroboscopic projections of artist Marco Brambilla's video Sex from Sync (2005), a collection of short erotic films by various artists. This provocative play of love and lust assembles ten consummate dialogues between a motley collection of characters, all with the same goal: sex.
Watch the REIGEN ad lib video trailer on YouTube.

The performance is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918 and is organized by Charles Fabius, Producer, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. REIGEN ad lib is generously supported by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation. This program is also supported in part by public funds from The Netherlands Cultural Services and by a grant from the Netherland-America Foundation. Sex from Sync (2005) is presented with the courtesy of Marco Brambilla and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica.

Tickets are $30, $25 members, $10 students under 25 with valid ID, and are available at guggenheim.org/publicprograms or by calling the Box Office at 212 423 3587. Children under 17 not admitted. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/reigenadlib.

About Dood Paard
Dood Paard is an Amsterdam-based theater collective founded in 1994. The group is composed of Kuno Bakker, Gillis Biesheuvel, Marten Oosthoek, Raymond Querido, René Rood, and Manja Topper. Past and present work by Dood Paard includes RITTER DENE VOSS by Thomas Bernhard; REIGEN ad lib (after Reigen) by Arthur Schnitzler; Geslacht (Boy in a Boat) by Rob de Graaf; medEia by Oscar van Woensel; Zomernachtliefde (Summer Night Love, after A Midsummer Night's Dream) by William Shakespeare; and Wachten op Godot (Waiting for Godot) by Samuel Beckett. Dood Paard performs regularly in the Netherlands and Belgium, and often at theaters and festivals in Europe and beyond.