Theater: The Museum of Memories, at the New Vic Theater

NIE Theatre

Oslo, Norway, Prague, Czech Republic & Cambridge, England

He was a brother, a student, a neighbor and a first love. Seated amidst the rusty drawers that scale the walls of the MUSEUM OF MEMORIES, witness the beautiful and touching stories of a boy who took his own life and now lives on in the remembrances of others. Through a mix of physical theater, multiple languages and live music, the five ensemble members of NIE Theatre (Past Half Remembered, New Vic 2008) tenderly reconstruct his life.

Hailing from all over Europe—France, Poland, Norway, England, the Czech Republic—the members of NIE Theatre (New International Encounter) prove that theater is an international language. Their shows fuse live music with multilingual dialogue to tell captivating stories from multiple perspectives. This compelling medley of languages enhances characterization and promotes the universal themes of each show.

Theater: Under the Radar Festival 2016, Employee of the Year

From the Public Theater web site [http://www.publictheater.org/en/tickets/calendar/playdetailscollection/utr/2016/employee-of-the-year/?SiteTheme=UnderTheRadar]:

A play with children for adults. Five young girls tell the story of J., whose house burns down, taking with it everyone and everything she has ever known. From this moment, a singular journey begins. Performed in 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s arresting theatrical style and featuring the original songs of David Cale, Employee of the Year asks what it is to find your own way through life. 600 HIGHWAYMEN is an Obie-Award winning theater company creating works by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone.

600 Highwaymen is the moniker for theater artists Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone.
… Their current project, The Fever, will premiere in 2017.

David Cale, composer.

Main web site: http://www.600highwaymen.org/calendar/

Film: Peggy Guggenheim, Art Addict

Theater: Under the Radar 2016, Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort - Germinal

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/theater/review-germinal-sheds-a-light-on-creativity-and-all-creation.html

Review: ‘Germinal’ Sheds a Light on Creativity and All Creation
By BEN BRANTLEYJAN. 7, 2016
Under the Radar 2016: Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort - Germinal

[excerpt:]

The evolution here is that of human awareness. The progression goes from thought to nonverbal communication to spoken language to ever-expanding consciousness of self, and the place of self in relation to everything else. And, oh yes, along the way something that feels like art emerges as a means of giving order to that big disordered mess that is life.
This creation team does have a lot of sophisticated technology at its command that was certainly not at the disposal of its ancient ancestors. From within what seems like a blank black space, the cast members discover pickaxes, computer-control panels, microphones and sound equipment that allow them to give form to their discoveries. (The show’s technical conception is by Maël Teillant.)

Thus supertitles are projected (the spoken dialogue is mostly in French), but in diverse ways that ingeniously suggest how humans come to know and claim their own thoughts. 

Projected words and diagrams also play a significant role when the team decides it’s important to organize the phenomenology of all they are encountering. (Material objects fall into the classification of things that go “pocpoc,” when they are struck; abstractions and feelings are grouped under things “that do not go pocpoc.”)

Such a dichotomous sensibility, from the culture that gave us both René Descartes and Marcel Marceau, may sound too preciously Gallic for some. But “Germinal” operates in the very best French tradition of combining whimsy with profundity, and a double consciousness of precise, egoistic individuality with anonymous universality. 

I defy anyone not to be thrilled by this production’s conclusion. By that time, our band of four has embraced the higher rules of physics and metaphysics and come to understand notions of catharsis, thermodynamics and even karmic bliss. 

It’s been a long haul for them — eons — and they’re now starting to realize that everything, material or otherwise, must end. New concepts like depression, anger and resignation come to the fore. 

But so does transcendence, the kind that four people with voices and rhythm and a blessed sense of the importance of ritual can deliver. In creating a world, they’ve created a play, a thing of rippling, radiant light to be savored before the darkness closes in once more.   --
By BEN BRANTLEY, New York Times

Under the Radar 2016: Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort - Germinal

Theater: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S "The King and I" at Lincoln Center 2016

Cast:

• Kelli O'Hara

• Hoon Lee

• Ruthie Ann Miles

• Ashley Park

• Conrad Ricamora

• Edward Baker-Duly

• Jon Viktor Corpuz