ArtsEmerson Season Brochure 2010-11

THE BEST MEMBERSHIP DEAL IN TOWN

2010/11 INAUGURAL SEASON LEGENDS

PETER BROOK F. MURRAY ABRAHAM NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP DRUID THEATRE ABBEY THEATRE ROBERT LEPAGE PIONEERS

RUDE MECHS BASIL TWIST OXFORD PLAYHOUSE WORLD PREMIERES

THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER THE COLOR OF ROSE AND MUCH MORE….

LES 7 DOIGTS THE CIVILIANS

WELCOME

As I write this letter, the first performances of the inaugural season of ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage are about to happen. It’s hard to believe that just one year ago the Paramount Center was still under construction, and the formation of a new arts organization– one that brought the best in world theatre right here to Boston’s historic theatre district – was barely an idea.

It’s a great privilege to be able to add to the cultural choices in the community by populating these four new and distinct venues with work from all over the world. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Emerson College for making this possible.

I invite you to explore the rich array of works we’ve planned this season. Our opening selections - the playful, Sound of Music inspired Fraulein Maria and the world premiere of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later are followed by a wonderfully diverse group of projects from our two programming streams: LEGENDS: Established, highly regarded institutions and artists whose work is seen and celebrated around the world—and now in Boston PIONEERS: A new generation of acclaimed artists whose ideas are redefining the theatre and pointing to the future And, as is our policy, we always make sure that some of these works will engage the imaginations of the whole family—young and old alike.

This winter/spring we have a distinctive Irish Festival, the first visit in 40 years from the legendary Peter Brook, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, a celebrated piece from Robert Lepage (who is currently finishing his RING for the Metropolitan Opera), the amazing PSY from Montreal, a stage adaptation of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises by ERS, the Civilians investigating the development of Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, and much more including a stroll through Boston Garden unlike any you’ve experienced before.

In addition to theatre, we are rapidly expanding our film and music offerings. Keep an eye on ArtsEmerson.org for announcements of classic films, mini festivals, first-peek screenings, and more plus live music acts for a diverse range of tastes.

I hope you’ll join me on this adventure. I look forward to welcoming you to our theatres.

Warm regards,

Rob Orchard, Executive Director p.s. If you are not yet a member, I encourage you to join and get first dibs on our “extras”—workshops, discussions, and special members-only events. (Our first members-only event—an invited dress rehearsal for The Sun Also Rises—was held at the Paramount in August, where members of Elevator Repair Service were in rehearsal prior to their premiere in Edinburgh. Don’t miss their return this spring—see pages 18-19.)

Photo: Paramount Theatre

On the cover: photo by Jeff Tamagini

THE BEST MEMBERSHIP DEAL IN TOWN BECOME A MEMBER—IT PAYS FOR ITSELF INSTANTLY! One-year membership is $60... and comes with a free ticket! Members-only booking for Booking Period Two expires October 31. Public sales begin November 1.

Most projects only perform for one week—membership is key to getting the best seats— indeed, to getting a seat!

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SPECIALLY SELECTED MEMBERS-ONLY PACKAGES:

• The Intensive all 10 events from $309 • Legends 6 events from $194 • Pioneers 4 events from $145 • Family 2 events from $59

24-hour notice required to exchange within an event; exchanges across events must be requested one week prior to the first performance of that event * Present your member ticket at the box office 5 minutes before curtain time, and space available, receive an upgraded seat location ** Member discount applies to tickets priced over $25

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THE WORLD ON STAGE BOOKING PERIOD ONE September – November 2010.

LEGENDS

Established, highly regarded institutions and artists whose work is seen and celebrated around the world.

PIONEERS

A new generation of acclaimed artists whose ideas are redefining the theatre and pointing to the future.

ALL AGES

Bring the family!

FRAULEIN MARIA

Doug Elkins

Boston premiere

THE LARAMIE RESIDENCY The Laramie Project + The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

Tectonic Theater Project World premiere

AFTERMATH

New York Theatre Workshop Boston premiere

STARTS 10.27 7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

THE METHOD GUN Rude Mechs Boston premiere

STARTS 10.13 7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

PETRUSHKA

Basil Twist

Boston premiere STARTS 11/16 14 PERFORMANCES ONLY

ONE SMALL STEP

Oxford Playhouse

U.S. premiere

STARTS 10.20 8 PERFORMANCES ONLY Y

CONTENTS 04-7:

8-31:

32-33:

LAST CHANCE

BOOKING PERIOD TWO

CALENDAR, MEMBERSHIP, AND TICKETS

BOOKING PERIOD TWO

January – May 2011. Members-only booking 10/1–31/2010

ATLANTIC YARDS The Civilians Boston premiere

A CELEBR ATION OF DIRECTOR PETER BROOK

FRAGMENTS

STARTS 1.19

Short Works by Samuel Becket Boston premiere

PSY

STARTS 3.23 7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

Les 7 doigts de la main

Boston premiere STARTS 1.25

THE GRAND INQUISITOR

From the Brothers Karamazov Boston premiere

STARTS 3.24 7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

IRISH FESTIVAL

THE COLOR OF ROSE World premiere STARTS 1.19

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN

Theatre for a New Audience starring F. Murray Abraham Boston premiere

Druid Theatre STARTS 2.2

STARTS 3.29 16 PERFORMANCES ONLY

TERMINUS

The Abbey Theatre Boston premiere STARTS 2.8

THE SUN ALSO RISES Elevator Repair Service Boston premiere STARTS 3.9

THE ANDERSEN PROJECT Ex Machina STARTS 4.15 9 PERFORMANCES ONLY

FARFALLE (BUTTERFLIES)

Compagnia TPO

Boston premiere

STARTS 5.10 12 PERFORMANCES ONLY

SUSURRUS

David Leddy Boston premiere

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10.27 - 10.31

AFTERMATH NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP

March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of “The Exonerated” traveled to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians who fled in the wake of the Iraq War. Blank and Jensen interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, these encounters were crafted into a jarring, illuminating and unforgettable play that gives voice to the upheaval of everyday life in a country struggling to find its way back home.

Originally developed and produced by New York Theatre Workshop in 2009, with the support of Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College. AFTERMATH was made possible by the generous support of The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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WRITTEN BY:

Paramount Mainstage

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

SERIES:

Jessica Blank

Legend

AGES: 14+

DIRECTED BY:

PRESENTED BY:

New York Theatre Workshop Boston debut RUNNING TIME:

80 minutes

“Aftermath reveals a truth, charged with emotion, outrage and for me, in the end, lessons in courage and humanity.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

FALL 2010 LAST CHANCE TO BUY

THE METHOD GUN RUDE MECHS :: OCTOBER 13 - 17 AGES: 17+ / nudity Boston debut

It’s the final months of rehearsals for a nine-years-inthe-making production of A Streetcar Named Desire... and the director is nowhere to be found. A play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.

7 PERFORMANCES ONLY “ Honest, brave and often hilarious exploration of the creative process...absurd and awe-inspiring.”

Louisville Courier-Journal on THE METHOD GUN VENUE: Paramount Black Box Photo: Joan Marcus

SERIES: RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, no intermission

SUPERBLY STAGED AND BEAUTIFULLY ACTED...

THIS WONDERFUL PIECE CHALLENGES US ALL. VARIETY

Photo: Kathi Kacinski

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BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED, WONDERFULLY EXPRESSIVE AND BREATHTAKINGLY REALIZED. NEW YORK MAGAZINE

11.11 - 11.21

PETRUSHKA BASIL TWIST

Known the world over for his astonishingly innovative puppet shows, master puppeteer and Guggenheim Fellow Basil Twist spins new magic around the legendary Ballets Russes production. Set to Stravinsky’s classic score, Petrushka tells of a tragic love triangle between the clown Petrushka, the alluring Ballerina, and the dashing Moor, three magical creatures whose stories emerge amidst the swirl of the Russian carnival. The program opens with an abstract fantasia of puppetry set to Stravinsky’s Sonata for Two Pianos, performed by Russian identical twin pianists, Julia and Irina Elkina. Nine hidden puppeteers combine Czech and Japanese traditions in a tour de force of music, movement, design and storytelling.

7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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CREATOR AND DIRECTOR:

Paramount Mainstage

Basil Twist

SERIES:

Celebrity Series of Boston

Legend Bring the Family AGES: 7+ RUNNING TIME:

1 hour

CO-PRESENTED WITH: MUSIC BY:

Igor Stravinsky TWIN PIANOS BY:

Julia and Irina Elkina Boston debut

“Basil Twist is one of the few originals. I’m in awe of his creative range, capacity to surprise and moments of poetic and lyrical wonder.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

Robert Orchard, ArtsEmerson

FALL 2010 LAST CHANCE TO BUY

ONE SMALL STEP THE OXFORD PLAYHOUSE :: OCTOBER 20 - 24 AGES: 6+ Boston debut

Check your oxygen, adjust your spacesuit and buckle up for the biggest mission of your life… an action-packed, full-throttled trip to the moon! Two energetic actors bring dozens of characters to life in their whimsical retelling of the space race,

8 PERFORMANCES ONLY ”What a life-affirmingly brilliant piece of theater this is.”

Time Out on ONE SMALL STEP VENUE: Paramount Black Box SERIES: RUNNING TIME: 1 hour

Extra: Meet the Puppets following every performance.

Robin Hemmings and Oliver Millingham Photo: Charlie Field

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STARTS

01.19.11

IN THE FOOTPRINT:

THE BATTLE OVER

ATLANTIC YARDS THE CIVILIANS

The Civilians presents the culmination of a long-term investigation of the controversial Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn and its effect on neighborhood and community. This lively presentation of theatre, dance and music draws inspiration from interviews with the real life players in the story of a divided borough: residents both old and new, community activists, developers and politicos. The Civilians will present this dramatic story using actual words from the interviews, showing many sides of this multifaceted issue and the process behind one of the largest urban developments in the country. Far from an indictment of the project, Atlantic Yards examines how the conflicts erupted, where the process went wrong, what is at the heart of urban communities, and what can be learned from the debates of the last seven years.

7 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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Paramount Mainstage SERIES:

Pioneer AGES: 14+

PRESENTED BY:

The Civilians Boston debut

RUNNING TIME:

90 minutes. No intermission.

“The Civilians celebrate complexity. And they create a theatrical landscape that parses important events into lively performances where music, humor, and human testimony is both entertaining and educational.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

CLEAR EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION IN THE WORLD OF MODERN THEATER. MISS IT AND WEEP. TIME OUT NEW YORK

JANUARY

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PSY

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01.25.11

MIND BLOWING CIRCUS

LES 7 DOIGTS DE LA MAIN

A merging of acrobatics of the body with acrobatics of the mind and soul, PSY explores the surreal underworld of the human psyche through the liberating language of circus arts.

Sitting in the quiet of a psychiatrist’s office, the voices in a man’s head instruct him to climb on a trapeze and hang by his toes. An obsessive - compulsive patient crosses a busy intersection, his attempts to avoid contact leading him to perform acrobatics across a sea of pedestrians.

Trapeze, juggling, aerial ropes, Chinese poles, and German wheels fill the stage, as The 7 Fingers brings out humor, beauty, and the commonality of everyday human limitations, celebrating the power of the individual and finding moments of strength, courage and joy while flying through the air.

8 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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Cutler Majestic Theatre SERIES:

Pioneer Bring the Family AGES: 7+

Boston debut

PRESENTED BY:

Les 7 Doigts de la Main RUNNING TIME:

2 hours with intermission

“Circus meets modern dance with a story of liberation. I first saw the work of Seven Fingers last February and I fell in love all over again with the circus, thanks to the refreshing talent of these young dancer/acrobats and their ability to take me on a journey full of both virtuosity and heart.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

ONE STEP CLOSER TO REINVENTING THE WHEEL...

CEMENTS THE TROUPE’S REPUTATION AS A CIRCUS TRAILBLAZER MONTREAL GAZETTE

JANUARY

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01.19.11

THE COLOR OF ROSE KATHRINE BATES

Now we get to hear from Rose. As the aged Rose Kennedy prepares herself for a pressing interview, she revisits her past through the eyes of her youth and middle-age. Young Rose Fitzgerald dreamed big, but she couldn’t have imagined that she would become one of the most venerated icons of the 20th century. Events in her life – tragedies and joys – branded her face into the American psyche. Enduring 104 years from cradle to grave, this woman of complexity, strengthened by faith and love of family, inspired the nation. Her candid reflections paint a unique and fascinating picture of the legendary Kennedy family.

14 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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WRITTEN BY:

Paramount Black Box

Kathrine Bates

SERIES:

Melia Bensussen

AGES: 12+

TBD

Pioneer World Premiere

DIRECTED BY:

RUNNING TIME:

“You will revisit the tragedies and triumphs of the Kennedy clan through the lens of Rose - the person we know the least – giving us the most insight and appreciation for the deepest anchor of this sea loving family. I find it incredibly moving.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

Produced in collaboration with the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College.

IRISH FESTIVAL

The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy once described Massachusetts as the “the most Irish-American state in the union,” and the city of Boston has been called “the Capital of Irish America.” The cultural, political and social ties between Ireland and Boston date back hundreds of years.

ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage celebrates this bond with The Irish Festival, presenting important voices in Irish Theatre and celebrating the richness of the Irish theatrical tradition.

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IRISH FESTIVAL

02.02.11

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN DRUID THEATRE

The Cripple of Inishmaan is a comic masterpiece with eccentric island characters trading stories to within an inch of their lives while a young man tries to make sense of who he is. It’s 1934 and the sleepy island of Inishmaan is abuzz with the news that Hollywood filmmaker Robert Flaherty has arrived on the neighboring island of Inishmore to film his movie ‘The Man of Aran.’ For orphaned Billy Claven, who has been relentlessly scorned by Inishmaan’s inhabitants, the film represents an escape from the poverty of his existence. He vies for a part in the film, and to everyone’s surprise, it is the cripple who gets his chance.

This production revives the unique partnership of the Druid ensemble with writer Martin McDonagh and Director Garry Hynes.

6 PERFORMANCES ONLY

VENUE:

WRITTEN BY:

Paramount Mainstage

David Hastings

SERIES:

Toby Hulse

Legend

AGES: 12+

DIRECTED BY:

Boston debut RUNNING TIME:

2.20 with intermission

“Irish humor is legendary. And Martin McDonough (author of the screen play for the film IN BRUGES) has single handedly taken it to a new contemporary level. He makes me gasp and laugh simultaneously.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

EMANATES A HEARTHSIDE WARMTH AND COZINESS…A SUBVERSIVE CHARMER THAT SHOWS OFF MR. MCDONAGH’S SKILLS AS AN EXPECTATIONTHWARTING MASTER OF KNOTTED YARNS.” NEW YORK TIMES

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IRISH FESTIVAL

02.08.11

TERMINUS THE ABBEY THEATRE

Hold tight as the ordinary turns extraordinary in this vivid and exhilarating play.

Catapult from the bustling streets to the skies above Dublin, then plummet deep to the bowels of the earth as three people are ripped from their daily lives and thrown into a fantastical world of singing serial killers, avenging angels and love-sick demons. As their stories progress, the narratives begin to intersect and crisscross, and their emotions, yearnings, and desires simmer and occasionally explode. Filled with humor, hope, and so much humanity that one leaves the play with a greater sense of being. While the characters journeys may end when the lights go out, yours will be continuing the tale for long after.

8 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY:

Paramount Mainstage

Mark O’Rowe

SERIES:

1 hour, 40 minutes with intermission

Legend

AGES: 14+

RUNNING TIME:

“Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre has uncovered generations of brilliant Irish voices. Now Mark O’Rowe has burst on the scene with three unflinching and intricately crafted stories that demand your attention and reward with an emotional wallop.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

AN EXPLOSIVE, ASTOUNDING PIECE WHICH GALLOPS ALONG, SETTING THE STAGE ALIGHT WITH URGENT, EXCITING POETRY. THE IRISH TIMES

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Andrea Irvine, Kate Brennan and Karl Shiels Photo: Ros Kavanagh

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STARTS

03.09.11

THE SUN ALSO RISES ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE

VENUE:

TEXT BY:

Paramount Mainstage

Ernest Hemingway

SERIES:

John Collins

Pioneer AGES: 14+ RUNNING TIME:

TBD

DIRECTED BY:

“The same people who tackled Fitzgerald (GATZ) take on Hemingway with their signature intelligence, reverence, and integrity. (We helped put it together in July prior to its premiere at the main festival in Edinburgh in August.) I think Boston is the perfect town for the literary and theatrical genius of this company.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

SERIOUSLY THRILLING STUFF THE SCOTSMAN

The First World War is over, but some battles still rage on. This is the backdrop for Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, which follows a group of weary, aimless and frequently inebriated American expatriates on a search for identity, diversion, and redemption. Told with spare and tightly written prose, Hemingway’s novel comes to life on a stage littered with liquor bottles and cafe chairs as the story winds its way through France and Spain and lands in the streets of Pamplona where bullfighting and the fiesta are in full swing.

MARCH

Vin Knight and Lucy Taylor in The Sun Also Rises

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A CELEBRATION OF DIRECTOR PETER BROOK

STARTS

03.23.11

FRAGMENTS

Brook’s long awaited vision of Beckett’s Fragments plumbs the depths of Beckett’s sparse, dynamic texts, revealing humor and humanity. Says Brook, “Today, with the passage of time, we see how false were the labels first stuck on Beckett – despairing, negative, pessimistic. Indeed, he peers into the filthy abyss of human existence. His humor saves him and us from falling in. He rejects theories and dogmas, that offer pious consolations, yet his life was a constant, aching search for meaning.”

7 PERFORMANCES ONLY Photo: Arthur Franc

VENUE:

BY:

Paramount Mainstage

Samuel Beckett

SERIES:

Peter Brook

AGES: 12+

Marie- Héléne Estienne

Legend

RUNNING TIME:

1 hour

DIRECTED BY: CO-DIRECTED BY: STARRING:

Hayley Carmichael, Antonio Gil Martinez and Bruce Myers

“More than any director in the last half century, Peter Brook has the ability to explore the elemental clarity of great artists. And who better than Beckett and Dostoyevsky? You will experience the forgotten humor of Beckett, and the spectacular imaginings of Dostoyevsky with the greatest actors working today.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

IRRESISTIBLE TO ANYONE WHO FEELS BECKETT’S COMEDY IS SOMETIMES OVERLOOKED. GUARDIAN UNLIMITED (UK)

DON’T MISS OUT. YOU MAY NEVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE TO SEE SOMETHING WITH THIS COMBINED PEDIGREE IN PHYSICAL THEATRE THE BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE (UK)

STARTS

03.24.11

THE GRAND INQUISITOR

Theatricalizing one of the most profoundly moral works in all of literature, Brook has created a one-man show of urgency and intensity. Dramatizing the famous passage from the novel that imagines Jesus returning during the Spanish Inquisition, Brook’s minimalist staging of the Inquisitor’s monologue is no less than a naked inquisition of our age, our complicity and our answers to his questions.

7 PERFORMANCES ONLY Photo: Tristram Kenton

VENUE:

Paramount Black Box

ADAPTED BY:

Marie-Héléne Estienne DIRECTED BY:

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Legend

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03.29.11

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE

16 PERFORMANCES ONLY From the internationally lauded collaboration between New York’s Theatre for a New Audience and London’s Royal Shakespeare Company comes Shakespeare’s tragicomedy, fresh from hugely successful runs Off-Broadway and in StratfordUpon-Avon. Starring Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham in his riveting portrayal of Shylock, and directed by Darko Tresnjak (former Artistic Director, Old Globe), the play has been arousing controversies for centuries with raucous and gentle comedy, tender poetry, and its struggle with mercy and justice. In this riveting update, religion, race and sexuality collide with love, family and justice and the currency of society and humanity has never been so changeable.

VENUE:

Cutler Majestic Theatre SERIES:

Legend

AGES: 12+

“F. Murray Abraham is one of our most intelligent and talented theatre artists. In his hands the complexity of STARRING: Shakespeare’s Shylock is revealed in a performance that F. Murray Abraham provides a new point of departure for conversation about the RUNNING TIME: resonance of this both playful and profound work.”

2:30 with one Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson intermission DIRECTED BY:

Darko Tresnjak

A PERFORMANCE AS DARING AS IT IS POWERFUL! MR. ABRAHAM DELVES INTO SHYLOCK’S PSYCHE. NEW YORK TIMES

MARCH / APRIL

F. Murray Abraham Photo: Gerry Goodstein

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04.15.11

THE ANDERSEN MODERN DAY PROJECT AFAIRY TALER EX MACHINA / ROBERT LEPAGE

The Opéra Garnier in Paris has commissioned a Québécois songwriter to write the libretto for a children’s opera based on a fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

During his stay in a friend’s apartment on rue Saint-Denis he meets one of the Opéra’s senior managers, a man with some odd and unusual likings, a young janitor and graffiti artist of North African descent, as well as a dog who could well be guiding the tale along its way.

Freely inspired by two stories by Andersen (The Dryad and The Shadow) and from anecdotes drawn from the famed Danish author’s Parisian travels, The Andersen Project explores the confrontation between romanticism and modernism, recognized and underground art forms, and past and present.

9 PERFORMANCES ONLY

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Cutler Majestic Theatre SERIES:

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY:

Robert Lepage STARRING:

Pionner Legend

Yves Jacques

AGES: 15+

Ex Machina

PRESENTED BY: RUNNING TIME:

2:05, no intermission

“Robert Lepage’s work originates just 6 hours away in Canada and is celebrated throughout the world. But it’s only been seen in Boston twice in the last 25 years. He’s a theatrical maestro – he’s currently immersed as the designer/director of the new Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. His story telling is simple and clear, the theatrical frame is technologically advanced. His work always makes me ponder life differently.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

...A THEATRICAL CONJURER, WHOSE DAZZLING SHOWS HAVE CAPTIVATED AUDIENCES AROUND THE WORLD WITH THEIR MIXTURE OF STORYTELLING AND STUNNING IMAGERY. THE GUARDIAN, LONDON ON ROBERT LEPAGE

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05.10.11

FARFALLE (BUTTERFLIES) COMPAGNIA TPO

The wondrous, other-worldly sensory gardens of Farfalle (Butterflies) take audiences on a magnificent journey through the life cycle of a butterfly. Using motion-capture technology, Farfalle is visual theatre of the senses, an immersive experience that brings together theatre and contemporary art to create an innovative, magical relationship between audience and performers. At the centerpiece is a special touch-sensitive CCC (or “Children Cheering Carpet”) which interacts with dancers and spectators in real, enchanted time.

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Paramount Black Box Theatre

Compagnia TPO

SERIES:

The Celebrity Series

AGES: 5+

1 hour

Legends Bring the Family

CO-PRESENTER:

RUNNING TIME:

“All I can say is “wow”. This celebrated Italian company uses sophisticated technologies to create environments that will charm you for life - in this case, 24 hours in the life of a butterfly. Come and watch the faces of the audience. Delight has never been more palpable. I promise.”

Rob Orchard, ArtsEmerson

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SUSURRUS Susurrus is part radio play, part sonic art, and part stroll in the park—a poignant story of misplaced passion that sensuously refracts the themes of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and includes music from Benjamin Britten’s opera of the same name. Edgy young Scottish playwright David Leddy’s site-responsive work melds dramatically spiraling theatrical writing and performance art in an unconventional location: the audience listens to Susurrus through the headset of an MP3 player while following a charted path through Boston’s exquisite Public Garden. It’s a play without actors, without a stage and with only one person in the audience: You.

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