NU Classic Performs THE MAIDS at Galapagos 11/24

NU Classic Theater presents The Maids at the Green Theater as the new Galapagos Art Space inaugurates its theatrical season. For one night only -- November 24th at 8pm, the NU Classic Theater Company, featuring top recent alumni from Columbia's MFA acting program handpicked by world-renowned actor/director/teacher duo Niky and Ulla Wolcz, will present their stunning production of Jean Genet's The Maids at the brand new LEED-certified environmentally "green" Galapagos art space in DUMBO. THE MAIDS is directed by famed Romanian-German actress Ulla Wolcz and features NU artists Laura Butler, Kelly Eubanks and Rebecca Henderson.

Critic Peter Radio said that THE MAIDS was "on the verge of insanity." NPR/BPBS FM said, "The production catches you in a stranglehold that won't let you move or breathe!" The San Diego Union Tribune said, "The Maids is so precice in style and multifacedted in tone, it becomes a polished little gem."

In THE MAIDS, two sisters play a murderous role-playing game when their employer is not about.  As the line between fiction and fantasy blurs, Solange and Claire rage against their Madame, Monsieur, and society at large.  In a world in which Facebook defines public images of our private lives, The Maids' insight into the illusive nature of identity is as penetrating now as the day it premiered.  Written by Genet in 1947, the play is loosely based on a true 1930s murder.

NU Classic Theater's mission is to create resonant works for today's audience rooted in rigorous and evolving techniques handed down from master to student.  They have spent the past three years touring their repertoire nationally and internationally, with THE MAIDS performing in San Diego and Berlin and Mainz, Germany.  Finally back in New York, they will be one of the first acts to inaugurate Galapagos as a theatrical space.

The San Diego Union Tribune calls Ulla Wolcz's "spellbinding" production "a finely detailed glimpse of hell."  Wolcz's credits span Eastern, Middle and Western Europe with a strong background in non-realistic experimental theater.  In her own words, The Maids is "an existentialist thirst for escaping the here and now.  In the end everyone ends up alone in her own prison."

Robert Elmes founded Galapagos on the principal that "good artists and the best young thinkers follow ideas, and ideas flourish when there is opportunity to realize them."  It offers space and generates audiences to counteract the astronomical costs of living and producing work in New York.  What better way to demonstrate this mission than by giving a performance space to a company whose work has been incubated but never performed in New York, for a play that is a true classic of the avant garde?

TICKET INFORMATION

The NU Classic Theater's production of THE MAIDS by Jean Genet will be performed for one night only, on November 24 at 8pm at the Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at SmartTix. For more information, visit www.nuclassictheater.com.

 

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