Castillo Theatre Closes Playing with Heiner Muller 12/12

Castillo Theatre Presents Playing with Heiner Müller, An all-Black cast presents Heiner Müller's avant-garde classics playing 20th century historical figures from Stalin to Hitler and Müller himself

Texts by Heiner Müller
Additional Texts by FrEd Newman

Directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander
Original Songs by FrEd Newman
Rap by Nichelle "Browneyes" Brown

Meet Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Hamlet, Ophelia, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertolt Brecht, talk show host Sally McNally, part of a virtual parade of 76 characters - famous, infamous and fictional - all played by a talented and spirited ensemble of five actors. This startling theatrical montage with 17 songs and rap, is the Castillo Theatre's latest foray into material by Heiner Müller, the East German playwright/poet who enraged the authorities before the Berlin wall came down, but never defected or repudiated communism.

Performed by an all-Black ensemble of five extraordinary actors (Keldrick Crowder, Fulton Hodges, Ava Jenkins, Sylenia Lewis and John Rankin) Playing with Heiner Müller tears down the iron curtain between drama and comedy, the personal and the political, the modern and the postmodern, Black theatre and the avant-garde.

The Castillo Theatre opens its 27th season with Playing with Heiner Müller, directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander, texts by Heiner Müller, the East German avant-garde playwright, additional texts and original songs by FrEd Newman, artistic director emeritus of Castillo Theatre and choreography by Lonné Moretton. Playing with Heiner Müller opens Friday, November 5 and runs through December 12 at the Castillo Theatre, located at 543 West 42nd Street. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $35 for adults, $10 for students and seniors. Special ticket package of $55 to see production again with different second act. Group rates are available. Tickets can be purchased through the Castillo Box Office at 212-941-1234 or go to www.castillo.org.

 

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