Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star Columbia Stages will present THE HOUR OF THE STAR, a comedic and philosophical piece about the existential search for meaning in a tragic world. Part solo-performance and part-storybook-theatre, this production puts Clarice Lispector's famous novella into a contemporary theatrical context.
Adapted by Dara Malina and Jolene Noelle, directed by Dara Malina, a third year MFA director at Columbia University's School of the Arts, produced by Meghan Long (Producer, Junesong) and starring Ean Sheehy (Red-Eye to Havre de Grace), THE HOUR OF THE STAR will be presented at THE CONNELLY THEATRE from February 18-21, 2015. "The story drives me to despair because it's too simple. What I plan to tell seems easy and accessible to everyone. But its elaboration is very difficult." - The Hour of the Star Rodrigo S.M. has locked himself in his cubbyhole apartment, giving up sex and soccer in order to write the story of Macabéa, a poor typist living in Rio de Janeiro. She survives on nothing but hot dogs and dreams of one day becoming Marilyn Monroe. Traveling through Rodrigo's wretched soul as he uncovers Macabéa's thin and tragic story, we learn that, like an animal, Macabéa has no concept of her own existence. And as the tortured overly conscious writer tells this overtly simple story, we find that in the midst of darkness even the smallest moments of beauty make life worth living.Videos