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Showing posts with label David J. Boss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David J. Boss. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Upcoming: 'Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford, 7 Towers Theatre Company, June 22 - July 15
presents
'Tis Pity She's A Whore
by John Ford
directed by Christina Gutierrez
June 22 - July 15, Fridays - Sundays at 7:30 p.m.
No performance on Sunday, June 24
at the Cathedral of Junk, 4422 Lareina St. (click for map)
Join us for 7 Towers' first site-specific verse play: A late Renaissance play about incest, revenge, and destruction.Following the success of last December's Burn This, 7 Towers' first season continues with our first classical verse play.
John Ford's late Renaissance revenge tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a story of forbidden love and the disastrous consequences of a society that attempts to legislate morality. A play in which an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister stands out as honest and pure, 'Tis Pity is hyper-modern in its skewed explorations of love, gender, taboo, faith, and corruption.
We will be staging 'Tis Pity at Austin's own Cathedral of Junk (4422 Lareina Drive), a space whose very construction similarly forces visitors to adjust their ideas and perceptions of reality.
Eight talented Austin actors portray 19 characters in this fast-paced tragedy, interlaced with moments of tenderness, high comedy, and passion.
Friday-Sunday nights June 22-July 15
(no show Sunday, June 24)
All shows at 7:30
$15 suggested donation.
Seating is limited, and can be reserved in advance with a $15 donation at www.wepay.com/events/tispity
Otherwise, seating is first-come, first-served
Directed by Christina Gutierrez
Assistant director/Set Design: Aaron Black
Costume Design: Sally Ziegler
Dramaturgy: Eleanor Owicki
Kevin Gates as Giovanni
Sara Cormier as Annabella
Travis Bedard as Friar/Bergetto/Cardinal
David Boss as Florio/Poggio
Devin Finn as Grimaldi/Officer/Banditto
Nathan Lahay as Vasquez/Richardetto
Sam Mercer as Soranzo/Donado
Megan Rabuse as Putanna/Hippolyta
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Flying by Olga Mukhina, Breaking String Theatre at the Off Center, January 28 - February 19
ALT's first take, for NowPlayingAustin's "A-Team":
Olga Mukhina’s Flying is a fast, dangerous and exhilarating ride.
Graham Schmidt and Breaking String Theatre put audiences up close to the beautiful youth of post-Soviet Russia in this 2004 piece. Olga Mukhin Qa one of those who originated the “New Drama” that came raging into Russia's mid-1990’s. It plays until February 19 at the Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo Street (behind Joe’s Bakery on 7th Street).
Heedless, hedonistic and rootless, a gang of six young professionals address one another only by their remarkable nicknames. Snowstorm, Blizzard, Snowflake, Maniac, Orangina and Lenochka strut, talk, preen and play hard. They revolve about one another and thrust themselves through the drab Moscow nights like shooting stars. Director Schmidt, choreographer Adrian Mishler and composer Justin Sherburn give this story a kinetic power that leaves the audience breathless at the end of the first half.
Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
Friday, January 28, 2011
Agamemnon by Aeschylus, City on a Hill* Productions, FF Long Fringe at the Blue Theatre, January 22, 25, 29, 30
Agamemnon as produced by City on a Hill* Productions and directed by David J. Boss is a satisfyingly crunchy rendition of the first part of Aeschylus' Orestia. In this season of Academy Award nominations it might be useful to note that the trilogy won the annual competition at the Greater Dionysian Festival in Athens in 458 B.C.
In a chronological sense it's not "the first play in the Western canon," as stated in the program. Aeschylus wrote between seventy and ninety plays, of which only seven are extant (with three of those comprising the Orestia). The parts of the trilogy were among his last compositions, for he died in Sicily at the age of 70 only three years after presenting them.
The Orestia is a defining work in the Western dramatic canon. The fate of Agamemnon has constituted a cautionary tragedy reworked regularly since Aeschylus' time. Sophocles and Euripides further explored the myths of the fall of the house of Atreus, with the tales of rivalry, cannibalism, war, child sacrifice, the conquest of Troy, treachery, sexual infidelity, prophetic ecstacy, incest, religious conflict and madness. The story and its figures are deep dyed in Western literary tradition. It's great stuff.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Upcoming: Agamemnon by Aeschylus, City on a Hill Productions at the Blue Theatre, FronteraFest LF, January 22, 25, 29, 30
Received directly:
City on a Hill* Productions
presents
Agamemnon
directed by David J. Boss
January 22nd at 12:00pm - January 25th at 9:00 pm
January 29th at 9:15 pm - January 30th at 7:00 pm
916 Springdale (click for map)
City on a Hill* Productions (producers of the award-winning "American Volunteers") presents the tragic first parts of Aeschylus' "Orestia," known as "Agamemnon" at FronteraFest 2011. Using the seminal translation for the stage by scholar Peter Meinecke, we bring you a play faithful to the text as Aeschylus wrote it.
See the strain of war as first told by the Greeks. Agamemnon returns home to Argos as a war hero but his actions before the fabled conflict still have repercussions he cannot avoid. As the Chorus looks on, tragedy comes to the House of Menelaus in this tale of the cost of war and proto-nihilism.
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