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Ouverture Alcina

“This is a remarkable performance, the script superb, irreproachable” – Muriel Mingau, Le Populaire

Ouverture Alcina is a vocal performance based on the figure of the sorceress Alcina from Ludovico Ariosto’s renaissance poem Orlando furioso. It is a fight between the power of the voice and of music, a deep and surprising alchemy that draws the figure of the sorceress, wounded by love, in her iconic immobility. No action, no spectacle, just a ghost that howls an untreatable pain. A canto in Romagnol dialect (the dialect from Romagna, a region in the North of Italy), an “ultra-local” harsh and archaic language, that makes a strongpoint of its incommunicability, objective music.

The Teatro delle Albe was founded in 1983 by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari. The company has been interweaving the search for the “new” with the teachings of Traditional theatre, inventing a contemporary theatrical language. The Teatro delle Albe has become established as one of the most important realities on the national and international scene. For its activity received awards and acknowledgements in Italy and abroad, as nine Ubu Prize (like the Academy Award for Italian theatre), the Lo Straniero Prize dedicated to the memory of Carmelo Bene, and two Golden Laurel at MESS International Festival of Sarajevo. In 1991 the Albe created Ravenna Teatro, one of the more lively theatrical centres in Italy.

Alcina Ermanna Montanari / Music by Luigi Ceccarelli / Devised by Ermanna Montanari and Marco Martinelli / Text Nevio Spadoni / Space, Lightings Marco Martinelli / Directed by Marco Martinelli / Technician Danilo Maniscalco / Production Teatro delle Albe – Ravenna Teatro

The program is presented in the frame of Italian Contemporary Art Scene
A program of ERT – Curated by Aldo Grompone – In collaboration with Regione Emilia Romagna with the support of Camera di Commercio Ravenna and Ravenna 2019 as well as the Italian Cultural Institute, New York

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
US PREMIERE | CHAMBER OPERA / THEATRE | UPSTAIRS at PS122

Wed, Jan 5 10PM / Thu, Jan 6 10PM / Sun, Jan 9 10PM / Mon, Jan 10 7:30PM

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Ouverture Alcina program online!

Green Eyes

Travis Chamberlain
Green Eyes

“The play is gorgeous: a short, eloquent evening that feels complete, complex, and entirely satisfying. Williams’s dialogue flows with uncanny surprise, catching in its resonance all the psychosexual tension in the alchemy of desire” – The New Yorker, January 2011

“Green Eyes is a tiny, pitch-perfect triumph” – Erik Haagensen, Backstage

“Packs a wallop” – Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post

Travis Chamberlain unleashes the newly discovered Tennessee Williams erotic thriller transforming a honeymoon suite into a psychosexual battleground. Erin Markey stars as a ravenous Southern woman determined to satisfy the darkest recesses of her most deviant desires. Canadian heartthrob Adam Couperthwaite costars. This site-adaptive event delves into the disturbing subjectivities that exist in the grey areas where sadomasochistic desire and domestic violence overlap.

Produced by: Carleigh Welsh, Chris Keegan, and Travis Chamberlain

NYC PREMIERE | THEATRE | OFFSITE at The Hudson Hotel (356 West 58th St.)
January 5-30, 2010
Wed, Jan 5 – Sat, Jan 8 8PM & 9:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 5PM & 7PM / Mon, Jan 10 2PM & 4:30PM / Wed, Jan 12 – Sat, Jan 15 8PM & 9:30PM
Extends beyond COIL through January 30.

Rabbi Rabino

Renowned Argentinian director Vivi Tellas kidnaps reality, placing two Conservative Rabbis onstage to perform their own autobiographies – ranging from jokes to Jewish food to their opinions on Charlton Heston’s “The 10 Commandments.” On the threshold where simple reality transforms into performance, RABBI RABINO captures pieces of theatricality outside the theatre, placing them onstage in a unique context where audiences can connect with the Rabbi’s world in a whole new way.

Vivi Tellas, Director / Julie Kline, Collaborator / Dahlia Fischbein, Collaborator / Rabbi Hyman Levine, Performer / Rabbi Moses Birnbaum, Performer

Vivi Tellas has been at the cutting edge of the Argentine theater scene since 1980, first as the originator of Teatro Malo (Bad Theater) and since then as the director of a succession of innovative stage productions. Tellas has continually explored and tested the limits of theatrical practice and institutions. Her original contributions include Homenaje a Xul Solar (1989), Europera V (1995), Los fracasados del mal (1992), and a groundbreaking interpretation in collaboration with artist Guillermo Kuitca of La casa de Bernarda Alba (2002). Since 2000 she has worked on the Archives Project, a cycle of radical stagings of everyday life in Buenos Aires, directing her real-life mother and aunts (Mi mama y mis tias, 2003-4), recreating her driving lessons in the Automovil Club Argentino (Escuela de conduccion, 2006-7), imagining a conversation between the writer Edgardo Cozarinsky and his doctor (Cozarinsky y su medico, 2005-2006), and exploring Buenos Aires nightlife in Disc Jockey (2008). Vivi Tellas founded and directed the Center for Experimentation in Theater of the University of Buenos Aires. Between 1998 and 2000 she was in charge of the Stage Arts section of the Recoleta Cultural Center. Between 2001 and 2008 she was the Artistic Director of the Sarmiento Theater, which she transformed into the experimental space of the Theater Complex of the City of Buenos Aires. In 2008, she taught the seminar “Family Theater,” first in London by joint invitation of the National Portrait Gallery and Shunt, the legendary performance space, then in Dublin by invitation of the Project Arts Center.

Co-Production of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and PS122
Director: Vivi Tellas
Collaborators: Julie Kline and Dahlia Fischbein
Performers: Rabbi Moses A. Birnbaum and Rabbi Hyman Levine
Stage Manager: Mei Ling Acevedo
Research in Buenos Aires: Pablo Chernov
Associate Producer: Julie Kline
Video/Photo Documentarian: Dahlia Fischbein
Production Photos: Pascal Perich
Postcard Design: Horacio Gallo
Vivi Tellas’ website: Mei Iudicissa

We invite you to stay after the performance to enjoy some Kosher refreshments with the performers.

Director’s Note:

As a Jewish person without a Jewish education I always felt very curious and had great attraction to the whole mise en scene of the synagogue. As a theatre director this feeling was enough to make me think of starting my research on the “Rabbi’s world”, as part of my documentary work. I am looking for the most theatrical moments in the life of a Rabbi, and to examine certain questions…
Is theatre true?
Rabbi Murray said that God is a voice.
Rabbi Ellen said God is “feeling right”.
Rabbi Jan said God is memory.
Rabbi Moshe said God is being Jewish.
Rabbi Hy said God is the essence.
How does a person get to be a Rabbi? Is there a sign?
Is there a moment of revelation?
What does it mean to be a Rabbi? Is it a responsibility? A calling?
Moses heard God’s voice for the first time coming from The Burning Bush. A bush that never burns down.
Are Jewish jokes the best jokes on earth?
What does it mean to be chosen?
Why is Hollywood a Jewish invention?

Thanks to Alan Pauls, Rita Pauls, Richard Etkin, Sylvia Molloy, Beba Eguia, Stefan Kaegi, Anthony Hampton, Sarah Cameron Sunde and New Georges, Roberto Cambeiro and A.R.T./ New York, Judy Bowman, Brian Long, Eugenia Furneaux-Arends, Brian Miskell, Kathryn Hathaway, Denis Butkus, Daniel Talbott, Mashinka Firunts, Laura Nicoll, Morgan Nichols, Myron Gold, Rabbi Murray and Clare Stadtmauer, Rabbi Jonathan Blake, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Lisa B. Segal, Arthur Strimling, Rabbi Jan Caryl Kaufman, Rabbi Rolando Matalon
Special thanks to Vallejo Gantner and David Van Asselt

This production is sponsored by Apple & Eve Juice

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
Wed, Jan 5 9:30PM / Thu, Jan 6 6:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 6:30PM / Tue, Jan 11 6:30PM / Thu, Jan 13 6:30PM / Sat, Jan 15 9:30PM

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Rabbi Rabino program online!

Holiday

Ranters

Ranters Theater
Holiday

“An extraordinary piece of theatre, a subsuming into another place that send the audience into the night refreshed an afloat on a sea of calm.” – Emer O’Kelly, Irish Independent

Holiday is a gentle provocation. In a moment of relaxation and quite reflection two men unwittingly engage. Spontaneous, unaffected and thrillingly real, innocent discussion becomes an exploration of private fantasy, hidden anxiety, personal mythology, and the most inexplicable behavior. From the bar to the chaise lounge, Holiday is the journey of man’s simple complexities, set within a sparingly elegant design, complimented a contemporary baroque musical score sampling Vivaldi, Corelli and Albinoni.

Concept and Direction by Adriano Cortese. Text by Raimondo Cortese. Sound Design & Operation by David Franzke. Lighting Design by Niklas Pajanti. Set (adapted from original design) by Anna Tregloan
Performed and Co-devised by Paul Lum and Patrick Moffatt. Company Manager Alison Halit.

Established in 1994, Ranters consists of a writer, director, general manager and ensemble of actors committed to creating original, contemporary, theatre that is raw and immediate. Ranters is a small, artistically driven theatre company that makes highly distinctive original work. Ranters is one of only a few companies world wide that works in a minimalist, non representational theatre genre, creating work that is finely crafted through extensive rehearsal processes. The company has a highly successful production and on-selling history.

Over the past 16 years Ranters has consistently received critical acclaim in Australia and abroad. At the company’s core is an uncompromised commitment to Ranters’ artistic vision. The company has twelve productions in repertoire, has been programmed in twelve international arts festivals and has toured seven countries worldwide.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and by Arts House through the City of Melbourne and Arts Victoria.

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011

US PREMIERE | THEATRE | DOWNSTAIRS at PS122
January 6-15, 2011
Thu, Jan 6 9:30PM / Fri, Jan 9:30PM / Sat, Jan 8 6:30PM / Mon, Jan 10 9:30PM / Tue, Jan 11 9:30PM / Thu, Jan 13 9:30PM / Fri, Jan 14 9:30PM / Sat, Jan 15 6:30PM

Single Tickets:
$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Brothers and Sisters and Motherfuckers

Dynasty Handbag

“It’s like an inner-spirit ventriloquism; the exchanges are real, her timing is perfect.”
– Paper Magazine

This year Dynasty Handbag is hosting the family holiday dinner that is sure to be a messy mash up of passive-aggression, fart jokes, personality meltdowners. Everyone has something to bring to the table, and when all become deathly ill, everyone is suspect of bringing in the virus. But who is the motherfucking asshole sibling who would infect everyone? It must be Dynasty…she is the HOST after all. Find out when a family secret is revealed and an antidote must be found… or else!
Using live performance and 4 on-stage projections of family members, all performed by Ms. Handbag, BSMF is a tour de farce of comedic acting skills as well as a film editor’s nightmare.

Written, Directed and Performed by Jibz Cameron
Camera, Edit, Animation by Amy Von Harrington
Produced by Jibz Cameron and Amy Von Harrington
Sound by A.V. Linton and Jibz Cameron
Video display and Set Design by Lauren Brown
Costumes by Hayden Dunham
Hair n’ Makeup by Holli Smith
Photo: Ves Pitts

Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag) is a performance/video artist, musician and actor who lives and works in New York. Her work has been presented internationally from the dirtiest dives to the cleanest art houses and theaters. Dynasty Handbag performances have been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and a “crackpot genius” by the Village Voice. She is the recipient of the 2007 Fresh Tracks Artist in Residency Award at Dance Theater Workshop and the 2008 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund grant for the performing arts, and the 2010 Mondo Cane! Commission. She is currently an adjunct professor of Performance Composition at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her second Dynasty Handbag record is due in the spring of 2011 on Lovepump United Records. She is proud to be cast in the ongoing role of “Agent Steph” in the live lesbian soap opera, Room For Cream.

Made possible with commissioning support from Performance Space 122 and the Jerome Foundation.

WORLD PREMIERE | Theatre, Live Art, Solo Performance, Comedy | Upstairs

Wednesday, December 15 –
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM,
Sunday at 6PM,
LATE SHOWS: Friday & Saturday at 10PM