| HERE Presents ASHES from Plexus Polaire, Haunting Tale from Celebrated French-Norwegian Puppeteer, March 12-17 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:46 pm EST 02/14/19 | |
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| HERE’S 2018–2019 SEASON CONTINUES WITH NEW YORK PREMIERE OF PLEXUS POLAIRE’S ASHES, MARCH 12–17 A Haunting Tale of Arson and Inner Torment from Celebrated French-Norwegian Puppeteer Yngvild Aspeli Plexus Polaire Ashes Directed by Yngvild Aspeli March 12–16 at 8:30pm; March 16–17 at 4pm HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan) $25–$45; here.org; 212-647-0202 “The best shows I saw over a weekend at the Chicago festival [came] from other countries. One was the Norwegian director Yngvild Aspeli’s Ashes, a haunted, mesmerizing piece about arson and internal torment, full of life-size puppets and miniature blazing buildings.” – Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times, 2017 HERE (Kristin Marting, Artistic Director) continues its 2018–2019 season with the New York premiere of Ashes from Plexus Polaire, who recently presented the New York Times critic’s pick production of Chambre Noire at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival. Under the direction of Yngvild Aspeli, Ashes is inspired by true events as told in the best-selling Norwegian novel Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll, and features actors, video projection and life-sized puppets. Ashes is the collision of two stories a generation apart. In a small village in the south of Norway, a young arsonist sets houses on fire; and several decades later, a writer seizes on the tale as his own literary inspiration. These two tragically ordinary beings bend under the onslaught of their demons, burning with a secret fire that consumes them. A story of the human condition, Ashes explores the beast lurking in everyone, and examines our silent agreement with it, not to be devoured. Aspeli, the Norwegian born director of Plexus Polaire, explores a visual language mixing poetry and cruelty. Through images and words, sounds and gestures, imagination and substance, she gives life to the most deeply buried feelings. Her past work includes Signaux (2011), Opera Opaque (2013), Ashes (2014), and Chambre Noire (2017). She is currently working on an adaptation of Moby Dick. Seven performances of Ashes will take place March 12–17 with performances Tuesday–Saturday at 8:30pm, and Saturday–Sunday at 4pm. Critics are welcome as of March 12, which will also serve as the official opening, or may join us as part of a double-header “Puppet Pairing” with Nick Lehane’s Chimpanzee. Tickets for each show are priced at $25–$45, or $40 for both, and can be purchased by visiting here.org or by calling 212-647-0202. In person sales at the box office after 5pm only on performance days and two hours prior to curtain for matinees. For Group Sales, contact tickets@here.org. About HERE The OBIE-winning HERE (Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director), named a Top Ten Off-Off Broadway Theatre by Time Out New York, is a leader in the field of producing and presenting new, hybrid performance viewed as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines—theater, dance, music and opera, puppetry, media, visual and installation, spoken word and performance art. HERE’s standout productions include Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique and Arias with a Twist, Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle’s all wear bowlers, Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, James Scruggs’ Disposable Men, Corey Dargel’s Removable Parts, Kamala Sankaram’s Miranda, and Robin Frohardt’s The Pigeoning, among many others. HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry Program, under the artistic direction of Basil Twist, with producing direction from HERE co-founder Barbara Busackino, is one of few programs in the country to grow and commission contemporary adult puppet works, particularly works that feature live music as a collaborative element. Through Dream Music, HERE seeks to secure the future of puppetry by providing increased development and performance opportunities to puppet artists, and by collaborating with artists from other disciplines to develop new puppetry techniques. In addition, Dream Music brings to New York the finest of international puppetry, reflecting on Twist’s roots at the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France. Dream Music was inaugurated with the premiere of Basil Twist’s OBIE-award winning Symphonie Fantastique in 1998 and the opening of the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre, an intimate space created specifically for puppetry. HERE is also recognized nationally and internationally for the annual PROTOTYPE festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre, co-founded and co-produced with Beth Morrison Projects. Founded in 2013, PROTOTYPE commissions, develops, produces, and presents new 21st century works of contemporary opera and music-theater. Since its founding in 1993, HERE and the artists it has supported have received 18 Obies, 2 Bessies, 5 Drama Desk Nominations, 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Doris Duke Awards, and 2 MacArthur Fellowships. Funding Credits Ashes is made possible through the generous support of the Jim Henson Foundation, with additional support provided by The American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Jane Henson Foundation. |
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