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This Obie award-winning production continues writer/director Lee Breuer's series of reinvented classics, turning Ibsen's 19th century bourgeois tragedy into a boldly feminist comedy. Like the company's previous adaptations, Mabou Mines DollHouse manipulates core dramatic elements in unconventional, often humorous ways to make its message clear. The casting cuts the patriarchy down to size: All men are played by actors ranging from 3'4" to 4'5". Throughout the play, absurdly, these diminutive men are seen dominating women nearly twice their size. The maid Helene, for example, is a full 6 feet. All of the drama takes place in a kids' room where for Christmas Nora, played by Obie winning actress Maude Mitchell, has given her children a playhouse-sized dollhouse.
Eve Beglarian's score, a collage of Edvard Grieg's piano works, accompanies each scene like a silent movie. In the final scene, Nora's declarations of freedom and devastating final confrontation with Torvald are staged as an opera composed by Eve Beglarian, the action echoed in an oratorio of doll voices from a four-tier doll opera house in which formally dressed Victorian husband-and-wife puppets watch the play from opera boxes.
Mabou
Mines DollHouse premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY
in December 2003 to rave reviews and sold-out houses. Margo Jefferson in
the NY Times wrote "Mr. Breuer gives us a passionate allegory that works
- and plays - on many levels. The whole experience is so fascinating - thrilling
here, confounding there - that it must be seen". Mabou
Mines DollHouse was part of the Ibsen Festival in Oslo in September,
2004 followed by the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston,
SC , (May/June 2005), the Stuttgart Festival (July 2005), the Festival D'Automne
in Paris (September, 2005), Midwestern USA tour (Fall/Winter 2005), New
England tour (Spring 2006), Israel, Hong Kong, and Brisbane (Summer 2006),
Madrid Festival (Fall 2006), Los Angeles/UCLA Live (Winter 2006), Toronto's Harbourfront Centre (Jan/Feb 2007), Musica Per Roma, Rome (May 2007), Singapore Festival (June 2007), Edinburgh Festival (August 2007), Dialog Festival Wroclaw, Poland (October 2007), Teatro Espanol, Madrid (Oct/Nov 2007), XI Festival Iberoamericano, Bogota (March 2008), LG Arts Center, Seoul (April 2008), Athens Festival (July 2008), International Stanislavsky Festival, Moscow (November 2009).
Mabou Mines DollHouse was filmed in Scotland in September 2007 for Arte Television.
Tour Booking Agent – Micocci Productions
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The Gospel at Colonus is a landmark work of the American musical theatre that has been nominated for, and won, many awards, including an OBIE for Outstanding Musical, a Pulitzer, a Tony, and a Grammy for best recorded theatrical score. It is an adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, performed as an oratorio set in a black Pentecostal church.
Inspired by the joyous faith at the heart of African-American Christianity with Greek myth replacing Bible story, The Gospel at Colonus seamlessly blends the agony of Greek tragedy and the ecstasy of American gospel music. It is a sermon on the ways of fate and particularly on a happy death - sung acted and preached by members of the congregation and choir who assume the characters of the "play" with the ground-shaking thunder of a gospel revival meeting.
Conceived, adapted and directed by MacArthur Genius Grant winner Lee Breuer, with music composed, arranged and directed by Academy Award nominee Bob Telson, The Gospel at Colonus is a one-of-a-kind show featuring more than 40 powerhouse voices including gospel legends The Blind Boys of Alabama and The Legendary Soul Stirrers. Since its inception, the lead role of The Messenger has been played by such notable actors as Morgan Freeman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Charles S. Dutton and the Rev. Earl F. Miller. The play has been performed in New York at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Broadway and at Harlem's famous Apollo Theater, as well as across the US and Internationally - most recently in Vienna in 2006 and Athens in 2008.
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A musical comedy based on the 1987 hit film of the same name, from the film's creative team - director Percy Adion, writers Percy and Eleanore Adion, composer Bob Telson, the writer of Calling You, the Academy Award nominated theme song, and lyricist Lee Breuer. The French newspaper Le Monde described the original film as "Ninety-one minutes of pure happiness."
The Bagdad Cafe is a magical place in the middle of nowhere and is the setting for the story of two women who, in the discovery of each other, learn to accept themselves for who they are. Director Percy Adion has maintained the settings and personality of his original movie for the stage, with the same atmosphere adn the same characters doing their best to deal with life's dilemmas. Jasmin Munchgstettner, a German tourist from Rosenheim, leaves her husband after an argument on a lonely road in the middle of the Mojave desert. Brenda has just kicked her husband out of the roadside cafe-motel they operate. When Jasmine arrives at the cafe, Brenda is at first suspicious of this strange apparition; overworked and at her wit's end, she has her own problems to deal with. Ultimately, an unlikely magic sparks between the two women and this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Produced by Pascal Bernardin for Encore Bagdad, Bagdad Cafe - The Musical had its world premiere in Barcelona in the summer of 2004. It toured France and Germany in the fall of 2005 and Europe in early 2006.
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Inspired by a true story, The Lilliput will illuminate the Holocaust survival story of Abraham Kerber, a Jewish dwarf, from the Polish town of Gombin. This little person hid for years in garbage cans at a Polish railway station used for the deportation of Jews during World War II. Within the Lilliput movie, the larger issues, concerning the way in which Poland has dealt with it’s complicated Jewish history, will be examined and revealed through the use of a parallel narrative, with characters in the present, tied to the past, as a result of birth and shared history.
www.thelilliputmovie.com
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