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La Ronde arthur schnitzler, adapted by jason sherman ( germany 1920 / canada 2013 )
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This performance of La Ronde contains: Explicit Sexual Content, Nudity, Gunshots, Violence, & Coarse Language a pproxim at e ru n ni ng t im e: 2 hou rs a nd 30 m i nu t es t h er e w ill be one 20 m i nu t e i n t er m ission
ARTIST NOTE: Alan Dilworth “ We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us – that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect” – Emilio Estevez I could not be more proud to share Jason Sherman’s adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde with you. For me, one of the thrills of an adaptation is experiencing the time-and-space defying magic of one writer’s vision enmeshed in another’s. A production of an adaptation answers the question: ‘why this play now?’ by telling us both something about who we were, and who we are now. Sherman’s deft and incisive script challenged our cast and creative team to ask these questions of ourselves and offer our findings to you. Our process has been an excavation of this heartbreaking and humorous meditation on the loneliness of the human condition. I hope somewhere in the world that we have created, you see a piece of yourself.
A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends, Like Alan, I am thrilled to have Jason Sherman writing again for the theatre after more than a decade away. His is one of the most sophisticated and courageous dramatic voices that this country has ever produced, and this arresting adaptation announces a full-blooded return to the theatre. Thank you Jason. And thank you Alan for guiding this gifted team of designers and this fearless team of actors through a journey that visits dark and dangerous corners of the human experience. I asked Jason and Alan for a new version of La Ronde that would capture the provocative and searching nature of the original, and they, with this extraordinarily brave team of actors, have delivered in spades.•
Thank you for coming to the theatre.• “ Remember, we’re all in this alone” – Lily Tomlin
Alan Dilworth, Director of La Ronde
Albert Schultz, Artistic Director