Theater: Gatz, Elevator Repair Service at The Skirball 2019

https://nyuskirball.org/events/elevator-repair-service-gatz/ 

 “THE MOST REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATER NOT ONLY OF THIS YEAR BUT ALSO OF THIS DECADE.” – BEN BRANTLEY, N.Y. TIMES Gatz, the critically lauded performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, was last seen in New York in 2012.

Created by Obie-winning ensemble Elevator Repair Service, this multi-award-winning play, with a cast of thirteen, is a theatrical tour de force — not just a retelling of the Gatsby story but a thoroughly entertaining dramatization of the entire novel, word for word.

 Elevator Repair Service, based in NYC, has been making original theater since 1991. Under the direction of Artistic Director John Collins, ERS has achieved national and international recognition with its extensive body of work and has influenced a generation of theater-makers. The company’s performances have been presented in Europe, Australia, Asia, South America and across the United States, and have been recognized with numerous awards. elevator.org.   Gatz will be presented as a marathon eight-hour event, including two intermissions and a dinner break.

Theater: Emily Brown and the Thing, New Vic 2019

Tall Stories from London, England

How will Emily Brown ever get to sleep with The Thing making such a racket?! A friendly but woeful creature, The Thing has lost his Cuddly in the Dark and Scary Wood and won't stop crying. Plucky, brave and determined to save the day, Emily and her trusty sidekick, Stanley the rabbit, leap into action. Tall Stories (The Gruffalo, New Vic 2015) returns with an epic, imaginative musical adventure adapted from the popular picture book by Neal Layton and award-winning author Cressida Cowell (How to Train Your Dragon).

Music: TRAIN WITH NO MIDNIGHT by Joseph Keckler

http://prototypefestival.org/shows/train-with-no-midnight/

Singer and writer Joseph Keckler and an intimate musical ensemble lead the audience through a series of vignettes, each like a stop on a late-night train—from Paris to Hamburg, Michigan to Times Square and the symbolic space of The Crossroads, a place of danger and possibility. The text dances between comedy, commentary, and communion, while the score features smoky pop songs, propulsive invocations, and leaps into the operatic realm.  https://www.josephkeckler.com/

https://vimeo.com/josephkeckler

Theater: Minefield by Lola Arias

Photo: Carolos Furman

In her trademark political and playful style, Lola Arias brings together British and Argentinian veterans of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas war to share their first-hand experience of the conflict and life since. Digging deep into the personal impact of war, Minefield is a collaboratively created new work that merges theatre and film to explore the minefield of memory, where truth and fiction collide.  https://nyuskirball.org/events/minefield/

 
 

Film: The Arbor (2010) Director: Clio Barnard

Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/movies/the-arbor-a-biopic-of-andrea-dunbar-review.html

From Wikipedia.org:
A film about her life, The Arbor, directed by Clio Barnard, was released in 2010. The film uses actors lip-synching to interviews with Dunbar and her family, and concentrates on the strained relationship between Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award for Outstanding Debut by a British Director, and won the Sutherland Trophy, at the 2010 London Film Festival Awards. It also won the Sheffield Innovation Award at the 2010 Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Theater: MINOR CHARACTER

New Saloon’s irreverent mashup of English-language translations of Uncle Vanya – from the dusty 1916 edition to Google Translate’s profoundly whack results – is a kaleidoscopic amplification of Chekhov's depressing comedy. Each character is interpreted by multiple actors and through multiple translations, in an athletic attempt to say one true thing. “I’ve been made a complete fool,” Vanya says, “foolishly betrayed,” Vanya agrees, “stupidly cheated,” Vanya clarifies.

Created by New Saloon
Directed by Morgan Green
Dramaturg: Elliot B. Quick
Composer: Deepali Gupta

Text: Anton Chekhov
Translations: Marian Fell, Laurence Senelick, Paul Schmidt, Carol Rocamora, Milo Cramer, and Google Translate

Featuring Milo Cramer, Ron Domingo, Rona Figueroa, Fernando Gonzalez, David Greenspan, LaToya Lewis, Caitlin Morris, and Madeline Wise

http://www.newsaloon.org/

Film: THE BAKER’S WIFE (1938)

Marcel Pagnol’s
THE BAKER’S WIFE

Directed by Marcel Pagnol

Starring Raimu

Winner, Best Foreign Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards

(1938, Marcel Pagnol) When his drop-dead gorgeous young wife Ginette Leclerc (the disabled femme fatale of Clouzot’s Le Courbeau) runs off with a young shepherd, middle-aged Provençal village boulanger Raimu (César of Pagnol’s Marseilles Trilogy) goes on strike, refusing to produce another loaf until she comes back. The apotheosis of the great French actor Raimu (“The greatest actor of all time” – Marlene Dietrich; “For me, the greatest actor in history” – Orson Welles), in a film once extolled as the ne plus ultra of European filmmaking – with a risqué theme unimaginable in Hollywood movies at the time – but long unseen in any form. DCP restoration. Approx. 124 min.

Presented with support from the George Fasel Memorial Fund for Classic French Cinema

A JANUS FILMS RELEASE


​THE BAKERS WIFE -TRAILER from Janus Films on Vimeo.

Film: CAPERNAUM (2018)

DIRECTED BY NADINE LABAKI

Winner of the Jury Prize at the most recent Cannes Film Festival and recipient of an 8-minute standing ovation, CAPERNAUM (the word is a French reference to hell), centers on a 12-year-old Beirut street urchin (Zain) who sues his parents in court for bringing him into a world of desperate poverty. Disgusted by his parents – who sell his sister in exchange for some chickens – Zain teams up with Rahil, a young Ethiopian refugee whose infant becomes his companion. Director Nadine Labaki’s neo-realism has been compared to that of De Sica and Rossellini. She has been lauded as “astonishingly accomplished” (Jay Weissberg, Variety) for her vision of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy that ensnarls its subjects with regulations that make their difficult lives nearly impossible. The two young leads in the film, today, live in Norway and France. “A film that already feels like a landmark.” (Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, UK)

LEBANON    2018   120 MINS.  IN ARABIC AND AMHARIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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