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POETICS: a ballet brut Poetics: a ballet brut is a non-verbal performance that strips theater down to its barest physical essentials and swarms the entire architecture of the Theatre of the Riverside Church. 2000 years after Aristotle’s original Poetics Liska asks can we forge a new aesthetic? |  |
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ONE FLEA SPARE London, 1665. The plague has quarantined a wealthy, elderly couple in their boarded-up home. A young girl breaks in, followed by a runaway sailor. Their lives collide amid sexual and class warfare and the fever of disease. Winner of the 1997 OBIE award for best play. |
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Columbia Stages in association with Columbia M.F.A. student actors perform three of Molière’s greatest comedies in a rare repertory experience: Scapin, directed by Niky Wolcz; The Misanthrope, directed by Michael Sexton; and Tartuffe, directed by Brian Kulick. In THE YOUNG COMPANY: MOLIÈRE CYCLE, the theatrical exuberance of Molière is matched by the zestful inventiveness of these vital young actors, whose performances will serve as their MFA thesis. Press Release |
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CLEANSED In a university-turned-concentration camp, a man pushes its inhabitants to the extremes of cruelty to find what their love can survive. This stark play by the author of Blasted and 4:48 Psychosis interrogates love in the face of annihilation. |
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NEVER AS HAPPY
by Aeschylus adapted & directed by Javier Antonio Gonzalez It all started with a rape, a war, and a sacrifice—or perhaps with a love affair, an invasion and a murder. A fire ignites, exile ends, return is celebrated, and heaven strikes. The house bleeds anew, broken on the wheel of necessity—for every fatal stroke a fatal stroke. The gods have seen to that. |
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THE CRUCIBLE
by Arthur Miller directed by Marcina Zacarria Arthur Miller’s passing represents the loss of one of America’s most celebrated playwrights, but it throws no water on the searing volatility of his classic depiction of the 1692 Salem witch trials. In a closed Puritan community, a cauldron of religious fervor and mass hysteria boils over. |
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF The acclaimed author of The English Patient weaves a poetic, darkly comic play out of the amazing life of famed outlaw William “The Kid” Bonney who by his death in 1881 had killed 21 men, one for each year of his life. An epic portrait of society without law & one man’s intimacy with death. |
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NEW VOICES NEW PLAY FESTIVAL SHOWCASE 2006 The Lion Theatre Click here for more information about the plays and writers. |
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