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SPECIAL
EVENT
A
TEMPEST (UNE
TEMPÊTE)
by Aimé
Césaire
Translated from the French by Philip
Crispin
Live from FIAF
Florence Gould Hall, NYC
THIS MONDAY February
28, 2022 | 7:30 PM EST
IN-PERSON
& LIVESTREAM
Celebrated
poet and activist Aimé Césaire strikingly adapts Shakespeare's
classic 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
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This
reading will be directed by Lanise Antoine Shelley,
the Artistic Director of Chicago's House Theatre and the 2021-2022
Drama League Classical Directing Fellow. The company will feature Isabel Ellison, Carson
Elrod, Kimberly Exum, Manoel Felciano, Enid Graham, Isaiah Johnson,
Anthony Michael Lopez, Paul Niebanck, Jay O. Sanders, Derek Smith,
and Anthony
Venturini.
A
Tempest marks Red Bull Theater’s return to our in-person
REVELATION
READINGS, our ongoing OBIE Award-winning series that
offers audiences the unique opportunity to experience rarely produced
classic plays performed by the finest actors working today. This will
be the first time that we have Livestreamed
an in-person
event.
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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Coming March 14 |
When Lady Happy and her friends decide to ignore society’s
expectations and consciously choose to avoid men and marriage, they
seclude themselves inside a free-thinking and joyous community,
creating a radical feminist utopia: the Convent of Pleasure.
Cavendish’s 17th-century play imagines a space established by and for
women to live for pleasure without men. But when a mysterious
Princess comes to join the convent, a "princely brave woman
truly, of a masculine presence," the paradise of the enclave
shakes. The online event will be directed by Kim Weild and
is presented in collaboration with R/18 Collective. | GET
COMPLETE DETAILS
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