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2006
- 2007 Season at New York Theatre Workshop
¡El
Conquistador!, created by Thaddeus Phillips
in collaboration with Tatiana and Victor Mallarino, directed by Tatiana
Mallarino
(September
’06) New York premiere
Simultaneously a foreign film, theatre play, epic history and Telenovela,
¡El Conquistador! was created on location in
Bogotá, Colombia and centres around Polonio, a peasant who flees
his war-ravaged village to become a soap opera star. What he finds is
a post as the doorman of the New World Building whose crazy and exotic
residents are played by some of Latin America’s best TV stars
(who appear via video-phone system). ¡El Conquistador!
is a visually stunning, funny and moving play concived, performed and
designed by renegade theater artist, Thaddeus Phillips, who collaborated
with Colombia’s leading TV actor & director, Victor Mallarino,
to create this vivid picture of contemporary Latin America. "Watching
Thaddeus Phillips at work makes you feel as if you’re on a mind
altering drug... His DNA might hold traces of Charlie Chaplin,
Rowan Atkinson and, perhaps, Einstein". (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER)
KAOS,
conceived and directed by Martha Clarke, text by Frank Pugliese and
Giovanni Papotto
(November
’06) World premiere
A new theatrical work by Martha Clarke (creator of the seminal Vienna:
Lusthaus (revisited)) uses dance, live music, text and visual
imagery to re-tell four Luigi Pirandello stories featured in the Taviani
Brothers’ 1984 film Kaos. Set in turn-of-the-century
Sicily, these stories portray common people in mystical situations,
heavily influenced by poverty and the violent political unrest of the
time.
All
That I Will Ever Be, written by Alan Ball,
directed by Jo Bonney
(January
’07) World premiere
Alan Ball is the creator of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Six
Feet Under and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of American
Beauty. NYTW members will have the opportunity to see his first
new play in over a dozen years: a richly characterized tale of cultural
imperialism and our eternal search for belonging as seen through the
eyes of two young men in Los Angeles, one a restless native Angeleno,
the other an enigmatic immigrant from the Middle East. Directed by Jo
Bonney (The Seven at NYTW, the recent revival of A
Soldier’s Play).
All
The Wrong Reasons:
A True Story of Neo-Nazis, Drug Smuggling and Undying Love,
written and performed by John Fugelsang
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
(March '07) World
premiere
Every once in a while,
a show comes along that celebrates traditional values and following
the rules. This is not that show.
John Fugelsang,
the real life son of an ex-nun and a former monk, declares war on everything
the neo-cons hold dear in this fearless and hysterical one man show.
Sex, politics, Klansmen, the drug war, stem cells and radical love -
it's all part of this brilliantly comic and heartbreaking odyssey. The
award-winning actor, comedian and political satirist presents an inspiring
crusade to take the fundamentalists' morality - and beat them with it.
All
The Wrong Reasons replaces the previously announced 24 Hours Are Not
a Day, which has been postponed
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