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Online
Benefit Reading
THE WONDER OF
WOMEN
by John
Marston
Directed by Nathan
Winkelstein
Monday, January
31, 2022
7:30 PM EST
| LIVESTREAM
Sensational
melodrama, overt eroticism, and splashes of wry wit color John
Marston’s grimly dark Jacobean tragedy – inspired by events from
Roman history. A dauntless princess is tested in a crucible of moral
absolutes, ruthless ambition, and utter depravity. After her wedding
night is interrupted by the onset of war, Sophonisba emerges from a
series of conspiracies with heroic virtue as the “just shame of men”
and multi-faceted “wonder of women.” GET
COMPLETE DETAILS.
This
online event features Ro
Boddie, Robert
Cuccioli, Reynaldo
Piniella, Cara
Ricketts, Derek
Smith, and Sarin
Monae West
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"Written
and staged between severe plague outbreaks, The Wonder of Women joins
a cluster of contemporary tragedies in abandoning England for remote
worlds. Like King
Lear (1606), Timon
of Athens (1606), Antony
and Cleopatra (1606), and Pericles (1607), it takes place
in a distant pagan past; like some of these plays, as well as Othello
(1604), it also conjures the foreign spaces of the Mediterranean
basin and North Africa. These plays offer, in the words of Coriolanus
(1608), the possibility of "a world elsewhere" - an
alternative to the claustrophobic urban spaces of plague-ridden
London. For better and for worse, these other worlds prove unruly,
racially mixed, and unbound by conventional gender norms. Among their
marvels - especially in The
Tragedy of Sophonisba - is a new model of heroism
embodied by women... For all its dark tragic turns, The Wonder of Women
sounds a note of triumph in its portrait of a woman whose glory
cannot be dimmed." – Scholar TANYA POLLARD
(read
more)
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Our
Off-Broadway production of Ben Jonson's THE
ALCHEMIST will stream on-demand from February 1 - February 14,
2022. This is your chance to enjoy the Red Bull
Theater experience right here at your computer, in the palm of your
hand, or on your smart TV. Don’t
miss the fun.
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SPECIAL
EVENT
A
TEMPEST (UNE
TEMPÊTE)
by Aimé
Césaire
Translated from the French by Philip
Crispin
Directed by Lanise
Antoine Shelley
Monday, February
28, 2022 | 7:30 PM EST
IN-PERSON
& LIVESTREAM
Celebrated
poet and activist Aimé Césaire strikingly adapts Shakespeare's
celebrated Jacobean play through a postcolonial lens. The characters
and plot are largely unchanged. Prospero conjures a violent storm to
drive his enemy’s ship ashore on the island on which he is exiled
with his daughter. Césaire’s island is located specifically in the
Caribbean and Caliban and Ariel, depicted here as black slaves to
Prospero, are centralized. Their opposing voices echo Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King Jr. Written in the tumultuous 1960s, A Tempest
confronts complex intersections of race, power, and anti-imperialism
with intelligence, wit, and beauty. GET
COMPLETE DETAILS
Presented
in collaboration with FRENCH
INSTITUTE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE (FIAF) and THE
DRAMA LEAGUE. Leadership support provided by ART
LAB | MEG FOFONOFF.
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