Sega Center Presents the World Premiere Reading of ON THE ROYAL ROAD: THE BURGHER KING
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 22, 2017
The New York reading of On the Royal Road: The Burgher King at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is the very first presentation of an abbreviated version of this play prior to its world premiere production at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus in October 2017.
"This unique performance text by 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek offers a provocative European perspective on Donald Trump's persona. The main speaker, a blind female seer suggests Miss Piggy channeling a confused Tiresias as she tries to get a handle on the bizarre behavior of the leader elect to draw from it some sort of oracle for the future. This seer with bleeding eyes sends Trump through a shattered looking glass where Jelinek examines him through the distorted mirrors of the heroes of Western culture: From Oedipus to Abraham, Isaac and Jesus, to Martin Heidegger, who attempted to lead the Führer." - Gitta Honegger, translator
Monday, March 27
Segal Theatre
6:30pm Reading + Conversation
FREE + Open to the public
First come, first served
The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Photo credit: Gottfried Huengsberg
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