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Opening in One Week
Oct. 26th, 2006 05:37 pmMore later tonight or tomorrow on recent rehearsals.
Most goes well with the show; and here's what I just sent out to the Gemini CollisionWorks email list:
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The Havel Festival (a production of Untitled Theatre Company #61)
and Gemini CollisionWorks present
Temptation
by Vaclav Havel
translated by Marie Winn
designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
assisted by Berit Johnson
with
Fred Backus - Eric C. Bailey* - Aaron Baker
Walter Brandes* - Danny Bowes - Maggie Cino
Tim Cusack* - Jessi Gotta - Christiaan Koop
Roger Nasser - Timothy McCown Reynolds* - Alyssa Simon*
*member of AEA - Temptation is an Equity-Approved Showcase
Thursday, November 2 at 8.00 pm - Saturday, November 4 at 9.30 pm
Wednesday, November 8 at 7.00 - Saturday, November 11 at 9.30 pm
Sunday, November 12 at 8.00 pm - Thursday, November 16 at 8.00 pm
Friday, November 17 at 8.00 pm - Sunday, November 19 at 8.00 pm
and Sunday, November 26 at 8.00 pm
at
The Brick
575 Metropolitan Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(L Train to the Lorimer stop / G Train to the Metropolitan/Grand stop)
tickets $18.00 available at the door (cash only)
reservations/credit card orders through Theatermania:
212.352.3101 or www.theatermania.com
SPECIAL OFFER TO PEOPLE ON THIS LIST:
First three performances (November 2 - 4 - 8) ONLY!
use the code INFORMER when ordering tickets from Theatermania
and get $10.00 tickets!
The Faust legend meets 1984. In an unnamed country (somewhere in the East, it seems) at an unnamed time (sometime in the last 100 years, it seems) at an unnamed scientific Institute, a respected scientist, Dr. Henry Foustka, has begun to dabble in the Black Arts. His efforts may be an earnest attempt to contact another world, or merely a scientific experiment, but he does succeed in making a stranger appear, Fistula, a strange man who may indeed be (as he claims) a successful sorcerer, but more likely is merely an informer for the Authorities with a smelly foot disease. When the Director of the Institute discovers Foustka’s private (and quite illegal) studies, the doctor is forced to walk a thin line, playing both sides against each other in an increasingly complex game as he attempts to save his job, his career, his reputation, his love life, and especially his neck by acting as a double agent for both sides, increasingly losing sight of what his original intentions were in the first place.
This is the world of Ian W. Hill’s new production of Václav Havel’s Temptation – a world where the Truth is feared and people need to become liars, cheats, hustlers, and informers merely to survive, even in the ivory tower of scientific research. Where even your closest friends and colleagues can’t be trusted. Where independent thought is crushed under the foot of State-authorized dogma. Where fools who speak approved “truths” without understanding them are rewarded, while geniuses who dare to try to understand forbidden “foolishnesses” are destroyed. Perhaps this is Theatre of the Absurd, but how absurd is it really?
In honor of Václav Havel’s 70th birthday and his concurrent residency at Columbia University, Untitled Theater Company #61 and other artists and companies have come togther to present, for the first time anywhere, the complete plays of Václav Havel. With one world premiere, five English language premieres and five other new translations, this is a must-see event for fans of Havel, political theater, absurdist theater, or simply theater in general. Sixteen fully-staged productions are being mounted in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as a variety of other events honoring Václav Havel's political and artistic career. Come experience this once in a lifetime opportunity to experience all of Havel's works and to learn about an important artist and world leader in depth.
MORE INFO:
On Vaclav Havel:
http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/index.php?&setln=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Havel
On The Havel Festival:
http://www.untitledtheatre.com/havel/havel-festival.html
On Gemini CollisionWorks and Temptation:
http://collisionwork.livejournal.com
Most goes well with the show; and here's what I just sent out to the Gemini CollisionWorks email list:
**********
The Havel Festival (a production of Untitled Theatre Company #61)
and Gemini CollisionWorks present
Temptation
by Vaclav Havel
translated by Marie Winn
designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
assisted by Berit Johnson
with
Fred Backus - Eric C. Bailey* - Aaron Baker
Walter Brandes* - Danny Bowes - Maggie Cino
Tim Cusack* - Jessi Gotta - Christiaan Koop
Roger Nasser - Timothy McCown Reynolds* - Alyssa Simon*
*member of AEA - Temptation is an Equity-Approved Showcase
Thursday, November 2 at 8.00 pm - Saturday, November 4 at 9.30 pm
Wednesday, November 8 at 7.00 - Saturday, November 11 at 9.30 pm
Sunday, November 12 at 8.00 pm - Thursday, November 16 at 8.00 pm
Friday, November 17 at 8.00 pm - Sunday, November 19 at 8.00 pm
and Sunday, November 26 at 8.00 pm
at
The Brick
575 Metropolitan Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(L Train to the Lorimer stop / G Train to the Metropolitan/Grand stop)
tickets $18.00 available at the door (cash only)
reservations/credit card orders through Theatermania:
212.352.3101 or www.theatermania.com
SPECIAL OFFER TO PEOPLE ON THIS LIST:
First three performances (November 2 - 4 - 8) ONLY!
use the code INFORMER when ordering tickets from Theatermania
and get $10.00 tickets!
The Faust legend meets 1984. In an unnamed country (somewhere in the East, it seems) at an unnamed time (sometime in the last 100 years, it seems) at an unnamed scientific Institute, a respected scientist, Dr. Henry Foustka, has begun to dabble in the Black Arts. His efforts may be an earnest attempt to contact another world, or merely a scientific experiment, but he does succeed in making a stranger appear, Fistula, a strange man who may indeed be (as he claims) a successful sorcerer, but more likely is merely an informer for the Authorities with a smelly foot disease. When the Director of the Institute discovers Foustka’s private (and quite illegal) studies, the doctor is forced to walk a thin line, playing both sides against each other in an increasingly complex game as he attempts to save his job, his career, his reputation, his love life, and especially his neck by acting as a double agent for both sides, increasingly losing sight of what his original intentions were in the first place.
This is the world of Ian W. Hill’s new production of Václav Havel’s Temptation – a world where the Truth is feared and people need to become liars, cheats, hustlers, and informers merely to survive, even in the ivory tower of scientific research. Where even your closest friends and colleagues can’t be trusted. Where independent thought is crushed under the foot of State-authorized dogma. Where fools who speak approved “truths” without understanding them are rewarded, while geniuses who dare to try to understand forbidden “foolishnesses” are destroyed. Perhaps this is Theatre of the Absurd, but how absurd is it really?
In honor of Václav Havel’s 70th birthday and his concurrent residency at Columbia University, Untitled Theater Company #61 and other artists and companies have come togther to present, for the first time anywhere, the complete plays of Václav Havel. With one world premiere, five English language premieres and five other new translations, this is a must-see event for fans of Havel, political theater, absurdist theater, or simply theater in general. Sixteen fully-staged productions are being mounted in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as a variety of other events honoring Václav Havel's political and artistic career. Come experience this once in a lifetime opportunity to experience all of Havel's works and to learn about an important artist and world leader in depth.
MORE INFO:
On Vaclav Havel:
http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/index.php?&setln=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Havel
On The Havel Festival:
http://www.untitledtheatre.com/havel/havel-festival.html
On Gemini CollisionWorks and Temptation:
http://collisionwork.livejournal.com
