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In Performance: The Wooster Group & New York City Players Early Plays (NYC)

Early Plays
The Wooster Group New York City Players
based on the Glencairn Plays
by Eugene O’Neill
Adapted and Directed by Richard Maxwell
Produced by The Wooster Group

photo by Zbigniew Bzymek, (L-R) Alex Delinois, Kate Valk, Keith Connolly, Andrew Schneider, Jim Fletcher, Bobby McElver, Ari Fliakos, Scott Shepherd

Feb 15 – March 11, 2012
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water Street (dumbo)Brooklyn, NYC
Tickets start at $22

The Wooster Group has invited Richard Maxwell of New York City Players to direct Eugene O’Neill’s early “Glencairn” plays—Bound East for Cardiff (1914), The Long Voyage Home (1917) and The Moon of the Caribbees (1918). Early Plays takes O’Neill’s tales of sailors on and off the ocean as a base to explore themes of longing and eternity. Dark episodes showing the underside of turn-of-the-century maritime life—brawls, dances and carousing—are staged with a quotidian grace allowing these simple stories to resonate emotionally.

In the plays, O’Neill captures the voices of sailors from disparate nations, all shipmates on the British tramp steamer Glencairn. Early Plays explores this language — both in its starkness and its potential for musicality — in a series of scenes that are interspersed with original songs composed by Maxwell.

Richard Maxwell was pinpointed by Elizabeth LeCompte, director of The Wooster Group, to give these plays an inspired “re-mix,” realizing O’Neill’s beautifully romantic text in a sparse, modern, yet still mythic place.

The EARLY PLAYS company includes Wooster Group members and associates Enver Chakartash, Ari Fliakos, Teresa Hartmann, Bozkurt Karasu, Bobby McElver, Kaneza Schaal, Andrew Schneider, and Kate Valk and New York City Players Lakpa Bhutia, Keith Connolly, Alex Delinois, Nicholas Elliott, Jim Fletcher, Kevin Hurley, and Brian Mendes.
(Source – St. Ann’s Warehouse Website)

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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