KIT in the City

Fino/Until April 26
La Didone
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water St, DUMBO
www.stannswarehouse.org

Descrizione: Descrivere il lavoro dell’Wooster Group in poche righe non e’ affatto facile. Il gruppo di Elisabeth LeCompte produce da anni spettacoli importanti, che utilizzano vari media e in cui l’attore e’ uno degli elementi in scena. Una delle caratteristiche del gruppo e’ di presentare la loro versione di testi o opere conosciute. In questo caso si tratta de La Didone, un’opera barocca del 1641 scritta da Francesco Cavalli. La storia e’ quella di Enea che arriva sulle coste dell’Africa dopo una violenta tempesta. Attraverso questa storia, trasportata nel 21mo secolo, il gruppo ne approfitta per parlare del potere della passione erotica e della caparbieta’ della natura umana di fronte alla idea di annientamento.

Description: The Wooster Group returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse with Cavalli / Busenello’s baroque opera La Didone (1641), in which Aeneas, prince of Troy, lands on the shores of Africa after a violent sea storm. There he falls in love with Dido, queen of Carthage, and becomes entangled in a web of love, deception, power and madness. In Mario Bava’s 1965 cult movie Terrore nello spazio, the spaceship Argos crashes on the planet Aura, and its crew becomes locked in a desperate battle with zombies over the all-important “meteor rejector.” The Wooster Group stirs these two Italian cultural artifacts together, dropping Aeneas’ ships onto a forbidding planetary landscape, setting the lute alongside live electric guitar, blending acoustic and electronic space, and finding an unexpected synergy between early baroque opera and pre-moon landing sci-fi: A 21st-century retelling of an ancient tale about the destructive (and redemptive) power of erotic passion and the sheer tenacity of human nature in the face of annihilation.

Running Time: Approximately 90 Minutes

THE WOOSTER GROUP
LA DIDONE
A Baroque Opera by Francesco Cavalli
Libretto by Francesco Busenello
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte
Music Direction by Bruce Odland

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Production: The Wooster Group, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts
Coproduction: Edinburgh International Festival, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, CC Belém (Lisboa)

With: Hai-Ting Chinn, Ari Fliakos, Jennifer Griesbach, Hank Heijink, Andrew Nolen, Kamala Sankaram, Scott Shepherd, Harvey Valdes, Kate Valk, Judson Williams, John Young

Set: Ruud van den Akker; Lighting: Jennifer Tipton, Gabe Maxson; Master Electrician: Robert Reese; Sound: Matt Schloss, Omar Zubair; Video: Zbigniew Bzymek, Joby Emmons, Andrew Schneider; Costumes: Antonia Belt; Production Manager: Bozkurt Karasu; Assistant Director: Jennifer Griesbach; Stage Manager: Teresa Hartmann; Technical Director: Aron Deyo

Quartiere/Area: DUMBO

Subways:
F to York Street
Make a right when exiting the train station. Make a left onto York Street, walk 3 blocks to Washington Street. Turn right on Washington Street and walk 2 blocks to Water Street. Turn left on Water Street and continue past Main Street; the Warehouse entrance is between Main and Dock Streets.

A/C to High Street
If you are coming from Manhattan, exit at the rear of the train. Walk downhill on Cadman Plaza West (which becomes Old Fulton Street) to Water Street. Walk 1 block down Water Street; the Warehouse entrance is between Main and Dock Streets.

2/3 to Clark Street
Exit the station elevator and make a left onto Henry Street. Turn left on Old Fulton Street and continue downhill to to Water Street. Walk 1 block down Water Street; the Warehouse entrance is between Main and Dock Streets.

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Posted on April 17th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK