May 13, 2015

Lincoln Center Festival 2015, July 6-August 2: Theater Presentations

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LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2015

THEATER ADVISORY

 

DruidShakespeare: The History Plays (North American Premiere)

Druid Theatre Company

July 7?19, 2015 (Critics performance is Saturday July 11 Marathon at 2 PM)

12 performances; Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (524 West 59th Street)

Richard II, Henry IV (Pts. 1 & 2), and Henry V by William Shakespeare

New adaptation by Mark O’Rowe

Directed by Garry Hynes

With: Clare Barrett, Derbhle Crotty, Gavin Drea, Bosco Hogan, Garrett Lombard, Karen McCartney, Charlotte McCurry, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Rory Nolan, Aisling O’Sullivan, John Olohan, and Marty Rea

Running time: First Half approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes, with intermission; Second Half approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes, with intermission; Marathon approximately 7 hours, with intermissions

 

Tuesday, July 7 at 7 PM (Part 1, preview); Wednesday, July 8 at 7 PM (Part 2, preview); Thursday, July 9 at 7 PM (Part 1, preview); Friday, July 10 at 7 PM (Part 2, preview); Saturday, July 11 at 2 PM (Marathon, critics performance); Sunday, July 12 at 2 PM (Marathon); Tuesday, July 14 at 7 PM (Part 1); Wednesday, July 15 at 7 PM (Part 2); Thursday, July 16 at 7 PM (Part 1); Friday, July 17 at 7 PM (Part 2); Saturday, July 18 at 2 PM (Marathon); Sunday, July 19 at 2 PM (Marathon)

 

The media is invited to attend a FREE symposium, co-produced by Fordham University and National University of Ireland, Galway, on July 9 from 1 to 5 PM at Fordham University’s Generoso Pope Memorial Auditorium (113 West 60th Street). To reserve press tickets, contact David Clarke, [email protected]. For full program check lincolncenterfestival.org.

 

Following the July 14, 2015 performance there will be a discussion featuring Garry Hynes, Mark O’Rowe and others to be announced, moderated by James Shapiro at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. This event is free to ticket holders for the July 14 performance. The performance and discussion will be audio-described.

 

Friday, July 17’s performance of Part 2 at 7 PM will be audio-described.

 

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Cheek by Jowl

Ubu Roi

by Alfred Jarry

July 22?26, 2015 (Critics performance is Wednesday, July 22 at 7:30 PM)

Five performances at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (524 West 59th Street)

Directed by Declan Donnellan

Design by Nick Ormerod

With: Xavier Boiffier, Camille Cayol, Vincent de Bouard, Christophe Grégoire, Cécile Leterme, and Sylvain Levitte

Performed in French, with English supertitles

Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes, no intermission

 

Wednesday, July 22 at 7:30 PM (critics performance); Thursday, July 23 at 7:30 PM; Friday, July 24 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 PM; Sunday, July 26 at 2 PM

 

The media is invited to attend an Artist Talk, featuring Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of Cheek by Jowl, will be moderated by American playwright John Guare on July 24 at 6 PM in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor). To reserve press tickets, contact David Clarke, [email protected]. For full program check lincolncenterfestival.org.

 

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Kafka on the Shore

July 23 – July 26, 2015  (Critics performance is Thursday, July 23 at 8 PM)

Four performances at the David H. Koch Theater (Broadway at 63rd Street)

Based on the book by Haruki Murakami

Adapted for the stage by Frank Galati

Directed by Yukio Ninagawa

With: Rie Miyazawa, Naohito Fujiki, Nino Furuhata, Anne Suzuki, and Katsumi Kiba

Performed in Japanese with English supertitles

Running time: approximately 3 hours, with intermission

 

Thursday, July 23 at 8 PM (critics performance); Friday, July 24 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 PM; Sunday, July 26 at 2 PM                                                                                                                 

     

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Theatre of Nations, Moscow

Evgeny Mironov, Artistic Director

Miss Julie

By August Strindberg

July 27?August 2, 2014 (Critics performance is Monday, July 27 at 7:30 PM)

Six performances, New York City Center (131 West 55th Street)

Directed by Thomas Ostermeier

Adaptation by Mikhail Durnenkov

Set design by Jan Papplebaum

With: Evgeny Mironov, Chulpan Khamatova, and Julia Peresild

Performed in Russian with English supertitles

Running time: approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission

 

Monday, July 27 at 7:30 PM (critics performance); Tuesday, July 28 at 7:30 PM; Wednesday, July 29 at 7:30 PM; Friday, July 31 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, August 1 at 7:30 PM; Sunday, August 2 at 2 PM              

 

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Gabriadze Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Ramona (North American Premiere)

July 27—August 1, 2015 (Critics performance is Monday, July 27 at 7 PM)

10 Performances, Clark Studio Theater (165 West 65th Street, 7th Floor)

Rezo Gabriadze, director

Performed in Georgian with English supertitles

Running time: approximately one hour and 15 minutes, with no intermission

 

Monday, July 27 at 7 PM (critics performance); Tuesday, July 28 at 7 PM; Wednesday, July 29 at 6 and 9 PM; Thursday, July 30 at 6 and 9 PM; Friday, July 31 at 6 and 9 PM; Saturday, August 1 at 3 and 7 PM.

 

Following the July 28, 2015 performance there will be a discussion featuring Rezo Gabriadze and others to be announced, moderated by Cheryl Henson, President of The Jim Henson Foundation, at the Clark Studio Theater. This event is free to ticket holders for the July 28 performance.

 

LC Kids Event: Puppet-building Workshop on August 1, 2015 at 11 AM in Samuels Studio (165 West 65th Street, 7th Floor). This hands-on workshop for the whole family begins with an introduction to the vast expressive possibilities of puppets by internationally renowned Georgian puppeteer Leo Gabriadze of Gabriadze Theatre and some of the his astonishing creations of his father, Rezo Gabriadze,  from their company’s production of Ramona. Families then work together to bring their own characters to life, designing and building their own puppets under the guidance of the wonderful NY puppeteer and storyteller Erin Orr. Tickets on sale at Kids.LincolnCenter.org.

 

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More about the productions:

 

Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland, returns for a fourth engagement at Lincoln Center Festival with the North American premiere of DruidShakespeare: The History Plays, playwright Mark O’Rowe’s new version of William Shakespeare’s four history plays that make up the key foundational narrative of the English monarchy—Richard II, Henry IV (Pts. 1 & 2), and Henry V. O’Rowe’s adaptation, presented as a marathon theatrical experience, or in two consecutive installments, will be a pared down version of the plays enacted by the astonishingly talented Druid Ensemble, a “remarkable company” (The New York Times) of Irish actors.

 

There will be four marathon performances in total over the two weekends and four two-part performances on consecutive weekdays.

 

Helmed by Tony-Award winning director, Garry Hynes, DruidShakespeare: The History Plays features the newly formalized Druid Ensemble, including acclaimed long-time Druid actors Marie Mullen, Marty Rea, Aaron Monaghan, Rory Nolan, John Olohan, Aisling O’ Sullivan and Garrett Lombard, among others, many of whom are known to New York City audiences from their performances in DruidSynge (Lincoln Center Festival 2006), The Silver Tassie (Lincoln Center Festival 2011), and DruidMurphy (Lincoln Center Festival 2012). The ensemble of actors will play a multitude of characters across the four plays. Celebrated actor Marty Rea (last seen at Lincoln Center Festival in 2012 as Michael in Tom Murphy’s plays Conversations on a Homecoming and A Whistle in the Dark) will play Richard II. Derbhle Crotty will play Bolingbroke/Henry IV, and Aisling O’ Sullivan will play Hal/Henry V.

 

An epic story of families and wars and the making of nations, DruidShakespeare: The History Plays is an exploration of English history through an Irish lens. As Shakespeare was writing these plays, Ireland was often the subject of expeditionary forces from England sent to quell Irish rebellions or Irish warlords, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. These expeditions crept into his writing and are referred to throughout Richard II, Henry IV (Pts. 1 & 2), and Henry V. Ultimately Ireland became part of the United Kingdom, and remained so until 1922, when it once again became an independent country (except, of course, for six counties in the north which opted to stay in the United Kingdom).

 

Another connective thread is religious intolerance. Adaptor Mark O’Rowe grew up in the 1970s and 1980s with the Troubles and the issue of religious pressures, issues that were certainly resonant in Shakespeare’s time as well, when Queen Elizabeth I decreed the practice of Catholicism as treason, pronouncing all of her subjects to be Protestant.

 

As the ensemble will perform in their own accents, the performance of Shakespeare with Irish accents “…so familiar and so foreign,” to echo James Joyce, marks these plays as explorations of colonization and conquest, as well as a discourse on honor, class, and ethnicity. Garry Hynes commented, “The question we are asking is how, in the context of the historical relationship between Ireland and England, do we, as Irish artists, produce these plays today?”

 

O’Rowe’s adaptation of the four plays focuses on distilling the narratives into a unified dramatic action. Shakespeare’s original language has been preserved in the piece as has the chronological integrity of the plays. O’Rowe’s modifications of Shakespeare’s work remove ancillary characters and streamline the language to remove stylistic redundancies. The works will be presented on a clean and spare set that will carry through all four plays.

 

Co-produced by Lincoln Center Festival, Druid Theatre Company, and NUI Galway.

 

The Lincoln Center Festival 2015 presentation of DruidShakespeare: The History Plays is made possible in part by generous support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Jennie and Richard DeScherer.  Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

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The celebrated team of director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod return to Lincoln Center Festival with their acclaimed Cheek by Jowl French language production of Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s 1896 proto-surrealist and absurdist comedy about a scheming, murderous yet ridiculous dictator. Given that Jarry wrote the play at 23 as a prank aimed at a detested teacher, Donnellan and Ormerod chose to rekindle Jarry’s outrageous play charting the exploits of the tyrannical King by setting it as the Oedipal fantasy of a camcorder-clutching teenager taking revenge on his parents and their French bourgeoisie world. In the cream-colored dining room of an affluent French couple, an ensemble of six French actors performs Jarry’s grotesque play about the oafish Ubu, who is spurred to kill the King of Poland by his Lady Macbeth-like wife. English supertitles provide translation.

 

As they prepare for a dinner party, their son’s acid gaze transforms his parents into the monstrous Père and Mère Ubu.  And as successive dinner guests arrive, in the son’s eye they become participants in an unfolding story of savagery and butchery.  As the dinner progresses, the home turns into a battlefield, reflecting the boy’s wrath but also depicting the potential violence that lies within us all. The critics in Paris and London cheered the production. “Exhilaratingly fresh…blackly hilarious,” said The Independent while The Guardian praised, “Donnellan gets richly uninhibited performances from his cast…battlefield chaos in a world of civilised chic.”

 

Cheek by Jowl was formed in 1981 by its co-Artistic Directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod.  The company’s manifesto was to re-examine classical texts, avoiding directorial and design concepts, and focus on the actor’s art.  Cheek by Jowl has established an international reputation for bringing “fresh life to the classics using intense, vivid performances like a laser of light to set the text ablaze” (The Guardian). The company performs in English, Russian, and French. In 2007 Peter Brook invited Donnellan and Ormerod to form a group of French actors to perform a French language production of Racine’s Andromaque. Many of the actors in that production are in the company’s current production of Ubu Roi.

 

In 1999 Chekhov International Theatre Festival commissioned Donnellan and Ormerod to form their own company of Russian actors in Moscow.  Pushkin’s Boris Godunov, one of the resulting productions, played at Lincoln Center Festival in 2009, starring actor Evgeny Mironov, who will return to the festival this summer co-starring in the Theatre of Nations production of Miss Julie.

 

Cheek by Jowl’s first production was William Wycherley’s The Country Wife, which was presented to acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival.  Soon after the company received invitations to take its productions of Vanity Fair and Pericles to festivals in Europe and the Near East.  In its first London season, 1986, Cheek by Jowl won the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer. More than half of Cheek by Jowl’s plays received Olivier Awards. Over the past 30 years the Company has toured across five continents, creating more than 30 productions. 

 

Writer and dramatist Alfred Jarry filled his brief 34 years on earth with enough writing and louche living to last a far longer lifetime.  Jarry wrote novels, plays, poetry, essays, and speculative journalism, but he is best remembered for his plays about the Ubu legend: Ubu Cocu and Ubu Roi. Jarry’s inspiration for the plays was a short farce called Les Polonais. Jarry revised and reworked the material for the rest of his life.  Jarry is also remembered for coining the term and concept of “pataphysics.”  As he explained it, pataphysics is “the science of the realm beyond metaphysics . . . the science of imaginary solutions.” Both pataphysics and Ubu Roi have influenced artists and writers throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, including painters Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, as well as composer Paul McCartney, and filmmaker Tim Burton.

 

Co-producers: Cheek by Jowl with Barbican, London, Les Gémeaux/Sceaux/Scène Nationale and Comédie de Béthune, Centre Dramatique National Nord/Pas-de-Calais.

 

The Lincoln Center Festival 2015 presentation of Ubu Roi is made possible in part by generous support from The Grand Marnier Foundation.

 

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Director Yukio Ninagawa celebrates his 80th birthday with a return to Lincoln Center Festival for the U.S. premiere of his production of Haruki Murakami’s internationally best-selling novel, Kafka on the Shore, starring actors Rie Miyazawa, Naohito Fujiki, and Nino Furuhata. The play is about two journeys.  In one, the teen-age hero, Kafka Tamura—who has adopted the name of the great writer whose work is filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation—packs his backpack and, with his alter-ego/companion Crow, flees his home in an attempt to escape his father’s Oedipal curse.

 

At the same time, an old man, Nakata, suffering from an inexplicable childhood affliction that stole his memory, is compelled to set out on a voyage for reasons he does not understand. Their odysseys entwine in modern day Japan.   Fittingly for Murakami’s dreamlike, metaphorical writing style, Ninagawa has explained in his program notes that he “tried as much as possible to present audiences with multiple-layered sets giving alternative visual information about the labyrinth that was hiding in the text of Kafka on the Shore.”

 

Kafka on the Shore will be seen in London, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and South Korea, in addition to its New York performances.

 

The renowned theater director Yukio Ninagawa is acclaimed for his stunningly beautiful stagings of Shakespeare, as well as for modern Japanese plays. Kafka on the Shore marks his third production at Lincoln Center Festival, following the U. S. premieres of Yukio Mishima’s Modern Noh Plays in 2005, and Hisashi Inoue’s Musashi in 2010.  Ninagawa has worked in the theater since 1955, when he joined the Seihai Theatre Company as an actor. He made his directorial debut with Shinjo Afuruu Keihakusa in 1969, and later set up his own theater companies, Gendaijin-Gekijo and Sakurasha. In 1983, he directed his first European production, Medea. Since then he has staged at least one production a year overseas.  He is a member of the Shakespeare Globe Council at the Globe Theatre in London, and was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002. The recipient of numerous theater and educational awards in Japan, he holds honorary doctorates in the UK from the Universities of Edinburgh and Plymouth. He became an artistic director of Sainokuni Saitama Arts Theater, Japan in 2006, and founded a unique performing group, the Gold Theatre, for people over 55 years of age. That same year he was invited by the Royal Shakespeare Company to stage Titus Andronicus as part of the Complete Works Festival, the only Japanese director participating in that special project.

 

Contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel, was one of The New York Times 10 best books in 2005.   He is known for his dreamlike, surreal narratives influenced by Western culture, including the work of American writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, and Richard Brautigan. Murakami ran a jazz club in Tokyo before publishing his first book, Hear the Wind Sing (1979), which won Japan’s Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers.  This success was followed by two sequels, Pinball and A Wild Sheep Chase, which together form The Trilogy of the Rat.  Murakami is also the author of the novels Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, and the short story The Elephant Vanishes, which was adapted by Simon McBurney’s Complicite theater and given its North American premiere at Lincoln Center Festival 2004.  Murakami’s works have been translated into 50 languages, and his many international literary honors include a Franz Kafka Prize, a Jerusalem Prize, and the Welt-Literaturpreis. In 2011 Murakami donated his winnings from the International Catalunya Prize to the victims of the Hanshin earthquake and tsunami, and to those affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

 

Co-produced by Saitama Arts Foundation, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., and HoriPro, Inc.

 

The Lincoln Center Festival 2015 presentation of Kafka on the Shore is made possible in part by generous support from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Additional support provided by Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A., Inc.

 

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Celebrated Russian actors Chulpan Khamatova and Evgeny Mironov — artistic director of Moscow’s

Theatre of Nations, and award-winning star of such films as Valery Todorovsky’s Love (1991), Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar-winning Burnt by the Sun (1995), and the monumental TV adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot (2003) — will make a rare New York appearance when they star in August Strindberg’s drama Miss Julie, staged by iconoclastic German director Thomas Ostermeier, known for his provocative and stylishly contemporary stagings of Ibsen’s plays in recent years.  This production, from Moscow’s Theatre of Nations, premiered in Moscow in 2011.  The play was adapted by Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov, and hews to the original 1888 Swedish text, but uses contemporary language to characterize life in the new class structure of today’s Russia.  There will be with six performances at New York City Center.

 

Set during a night in and around the kitchen of a large mansion, Miss Julie tells the story of a count’s daughter, who, bored with her life in the aristocracy, becomes the mistress of Jean, an educated servant in her father’s household. What ensues is a struggle for power as the main characters, representing the seemingly outdated and fading class of “haves,” and the rising class of “have nots” fight for dominance in a battle of words, lust, and psychological warfare. Jan Papplebaum’s impressionistic stainless steel set revolves, and the open kitchen has a video screen above it allowing the audience to see every aspect of the struggle between Jean and Miss Julie.

 

Film, TV, and theater star Chulpan Khamatova reprises her role as Miss Julie for the Festival. Miss Khamatova is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2012 Russian Federation National Artist Award for outstanding achievements in film and theatrical arts. Her co-star is two-time Russian Federation State Prize recipient Evgeny Mironov, who previously appeared at Lincoln Center Festival 2009 in the acclaimed Chekov International Theatre Festival production of Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov, directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, co-founders and co-Artistic Directors of Cheek by Jowl.

 

Thomas Ostermeier is the artistic director of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, one of Europe’s leading venues for contemporary theater. Through innovative productions of works by playwrights as diverse as Marius von Mayenburg, Sarah Kane, and Henrik Ibsen, Ostermeier is considered to be one of the leading voices in contemporary theater. He has a singular directorial style that is lauded throughout Europe and the US. Since 1999, Ostermeier has served as the resident director and an artistic director of the Schaubühne. In 2004, Ostermeier was appointed associate artist for the Festival d’Avignon. In 2009, his production of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman won the Grand Prize of French Critics and his production of Hamlet was honored with the Barcelona Critics Prize. His productions of Nora (A Doll’s House), Hedda Gabler, and Hamlet have toured internationally to festivals and theaters all over the world. Ostermeier was named an Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2010.

 

Theatre of Nations is a unique structure within the system of the Russian cultural institutions. In terms of the scope and versatility of its activities, it has no analogues in the practices of the national theatre. Founded in 1987 under the name of the Theatre of Friendship, it was renamed in 1991 into the State Theatre of Nations.

 

The Theatre of Nations develops and implements a variety of theatre programs, organizes and holds national and international festivals, presents the best Russian and foreign productions of all genres and trends, produces its own performances, and pursues the ultimate goal of becoming the center for bringing up a new generation of theater practitioners.

 

The regular festival programs of the Theatre of Nations include the [email protected] project, Another Theatre from France Festival, Theatres of the Small Towns of Russia Festival, and its satellite program of supporting theatres of the Russian towns. The Theatre of Nations also organizes the TERRITORI? International Festival and School of Contemporary Performing Arts.

 

The activities of the Theatre of Nations are in many ways exclusive. Thus, it introduces the Russian audiences to works created by outstanding members of the European theater community. These include the mono-play Vladimir or the Flight Cut Short by French theatre and film star Marina Vlady and Faust-Fantasy after Johann Wolfgang Goethe staged and performed by one of the present-day’s greatest European directors, Peter Stein.

 

Another creative project of the Theatre of Nations, One Play Festival, was timed for the 120th anniversary of the premiere of Chekhov’s Ivanov at the famous Korsh Theatre in Moscow that now accommodates the headquarters of the Theatre of Nations.

 

The Theatre of Nations dedicates a significant part of its artistic life to its own productions. It is currently working on Pushkin’s fairy tales directed by Robert Wilson which premieres in June 2015, and Ivanov, directed by Luc Bondy which premiered in April 2015, and recently produced Hamlet/Collage, directed by Robert Lepage. Its repertoire boasts a variety of genres and names of stage directors, including performances by such artists of European fame as Alvis Hermanis (Latvia), Eimuntas Nekrosius (Lithuania), Thomas Ostermeier (Germany), Javor Gardev (Bulgaria), Russian director Andrey Moguchy, as well as performances by young directors Nikita Grinshpun, Tufan Imamutdinov, Timofei Kulyabin, and Dmitry Volkostrelov, most of whom made their professional debut on the Theater of Nations stage.

 

The Theatre of Nations has been constantly touring, in most cases, as a member of the major Russian and European theatre festivals. Performances by the Theater of Nations have repeatedly received various prestigious awards and honors.

 

The Lincoln Center Festival 2015 presentation of Miss Julie is made possible in part by generous support from the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.

 

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Lincoln Center Festival 2015 welcomes the return of Rezo Gabriadze and his acclaimed puppet theater troupe from the Republic of Georgia, Gabriadze Theatre. Gabriadze, a master of stage magic, is internationally celebrated for his works of fantasy and wit that are filled with beautiful, elliptical melancholy. Gabriadze Theatre will be presenting Ramona, the story of two trains who fall in love. His company made its New York debut at Lincoln Center Festival 2002 with two of his signature works, the elegiac The Battle of Stalingrad and The Autumn of My Springtime, to critical and audience raves. Gabriadze returned to the Festival in 2004 with his play, Forbidden Christmas, or the Doctor and the Patient, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov as a man who tries to turn himself into a car, and again in 2010 with a reprise of The Battle of Stalingrad.

 

Like Gabriadze’s previous puppet plays, Ramona is produced with extraordinary puppets, gifted puppeteers, and sets made from such commonplace objects as string, bits of cloth, twigs, and wire. It tells the story of two ill-fated steam engines, Ramona and Ermon, who fall in love in the USSR. As the dashing locomotive Ermon chugs across Siberia, Ramona, a shunting engine (only able to move 300 meters in either direction), must remain in a small train station in Rioni. Through a heartrending series of events, ever-romantic Ramona and heroic Ermon keep missing each other, deeply saddening the other characters, who include a runaway hen, a wild boar, and a circus troupe. This humorously stark tale of compassion and loss is accompanied by music inspired by Georgian folk songs.

 

Gabriadze Theatre was founded in 1981.  Besides designing, constructing, and directing works of puppet theater. Rezo Gabriadze, a 78-year-old artist, has been a writer, sculptor, graphic artist, journalist, theater and film director, builder, and forester. Gabriadze’s exhibits have been shown in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lausanne, Rome, Paris, Berlin, and other cities. He was a participant in Munich’s From Einstein to Tarkovsky exhibit. His paintings, graphics, and sculpture pieces are found in numerous state and private collections in the United States, Russia, Germany, Israel, Japan, and France. He counts among his awards: Commander, French Order of Arts and Letters. His other prizes include the Golden Mask, the Triumph, the Golden Sofit and many more. For his film work, Rezo Gabriadze has won the Grand Prize of the International Moscow Film Festival and the Nike Prize, among others.

 

Gabriadze’s native Georgia is the small country in the Caucasus Mountains that even in the darkest Soviet times was known for endowing its inhabitants with a strong visual sensibility and vivid sense of humor. In an interview in a St. Petersburg theater journal Gabriadze said, “I am sustained by the tiniest, the most miniscule details — pauses between words, music, silence, the wind and random glances.”  Of Gabriadze, Peter Brooks said: “He is a creator of great ingenuity. His imagery is deeply personal and it brings to the theatre a quality of poetic and transcendental realism for which I know no equivalent…”

 

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Lincoln Center Festival lead support is provided by American Express.

 

Major Support provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

Lincoln Center Festival 2015 is also made possible by The Shubert Foundation, Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc., Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jennie and Richard DeScherer, The Grand Marnier Foundation, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), The Joelson Foundation, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.

 

Public support for Festival 2015 is provided the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Endowment support is provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Nancy Abeles Marks.

 

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VENUE LOCATIONS

Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (524 West 59th Street)

David H. Koch Theater (Broadway at 63rd Street)

Clark Studio Theater (165 West 65th Street)

New York City Center (NYCC), 131 West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues

Clark Studio Theater (165 West 65th Street)

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Documents

• Lincoln Center Festival Theater Advisory

Web Links

• ARTICLE: Irish Times on DruidShakespeare
• VIDEO: DruidShakespeare in rehearsals
• VIDEO: Lincoln Center Festival 2015 "Gabriadze Theatre: Ramona"

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