POIESIS Theatre Project Presents THE OPHELIA LANDSCAPE 4/22-5/8
By: Gabrielle Sierra Apr. 23, 2010
An original, collaborative work inspired by Shakespeare, Heiner Muller, Luis Bunuel, Rimbaud, Boris Pasternak, and featuring seventeen performers from around the world. This imaginative journey engages an emergent generation of artists and citizens from New York, as well as prominent artists from Paris (William Nadylam-Peter Brook's Hamlet), Los Angeles (Mira Furlan-Lost & Babylon 5), and Bratislava (Ina Marojevic) among others, appearing live and in cyberspace.
In this passionate story of love, beauty and art in the dark times, a betrayed and tormented Ophelia is in struggle for her individual freedom.
Re-examining Ophelia's tragic landscape at the crossroads of different aesthetics and breaking down the barriers between disciplines and cultures, Poiesis Theatre Project's inaugural production explores the artist's role in dark times. Seventeen performers in nine different languages ask: How to keep beauty safe without suffocating it or driving it to madness or suicide?
Dates: April 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and May 1, 6, 7, 8, at 8:00 pm
Running time: 90 minutes without intermission
Location: James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn,across from BAM
Subway: 2/3/4/5 to Nevins Street; N/R/Q/D/B to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific StreetTickets: $35 & $25 senior & student at http://Smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444
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