| Red Bull Theater announces A TEMPEST bu Aimé Césaire, live, in-person on Mon Feb 28th at FIAF Florence Gould Hall, with livestream & video on demand | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:39 pm EST 02/07/22 | |
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| RED BULL THEATER Announces Special Event Staged Reading of Aimé Césaire's A TEMPEST (UNE TEMPÊTE) Translated from the French by Philip Crispin Directed by Lanise Antoine Shelley Presented in Collaboration with French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) and The Drama League LIVE, IN-PERSON with LIVESTREAM Monday, February 28th | 7:30 PM EST At FIAF Florence Gould Hall Video On Demand Available Online Through March 6 Tickets Now On Sale! Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director | Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) today announced a special event staged reading of celebrated poet and activist Aimé Césaire's A Tempest (Une Tempête), a striking adaptation of Shakespeare's celebrated Jacobean play through a post-colonial lens, translated from the French by Philip Crispin. A collaboration with the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) and The Drama League, the event will be presented in-person with a simultaneous livestream. In Césaire's A Tempest, 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. A Tempest (Une Tempête) will take place LIVE in person on Monday February 28th at 7:30pm at FIAF Florence Gould Hall (55 East 59th Street) with simultaneous Livestream broadcast. Video-on-Demand will be available through Sunday March 6th until 11:59 PM EST. For tickets to the in person event, Livestream, Video-on-Demand, or more information, visit RedBullTheater.org. This reading will be directed by Lanise Antoine Shelley, the Artistic Director of Chicago's House Theatre and the 2021-'22 Drama League Classical Directing Fellow. Featured in the cast will be Jay O. Sanders (Bway: Girl from the North Country; Off-Bway: The Michaels, The Gabriels Plays, The Apple Family Plays - Public Theater) as Prospero and Isaiah Johnson as Caliban (Bway: The Color Purple, Side Show, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Merchant of Venice; George Washington in Hamilton National Tour); with Stephen DeRosa (Red Bull: The Alchemist, The Government Inspector; Broadway: Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, The Nance); Isabel Ellison (RBT debut); Kimberly Exum (Bway/National Tour: The Book of Mormon); Manoel Felciano (Red Bull: The Alchemist, The Changeling; Bway: To Kill a Mockingbird, Sweeney Todd - Tony® nomination); Enid Graham (Bway: Honour - Tony® nomination, Theatre World Award; M. Butterfly, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Fortune's Fool, Dinner at Eight, The Constant Wife; Off Bway: Coriolanus, King Lear - Public Theater; The Long Christmas Ride Home - Vineyard); Paul Niebanck (RBT: The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling, The Spanish Tragedy; LCT/Bway: In the Next Room (or the vibrator play); Off-Bway: Mint Theater: A Picture of Autumn; Keen Co: Boy, A Walk in the Woods); Derek Smith (RBT: The White Devil, The School for Scandal, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ; Bway: The Lion King, The Green Bird - Tony Award® nomination); Anthony Venturini (RBT debut); and more to be announced. A Tempest marks Red Bull Theater's return to its in-person Revelation Readings, an 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 the organization has livestreamed an in-person event. Aimé Césaire combined a political career as a Martinican statesman with a poetic calling in which he has been hailed as the leading Francophone poet of the 20th Century. Anti-colonialist visionary and profit of negritude, his influence has been considerable in shaping on-going post-colonial debate. Philip Crispin taught in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent four years in Paris studying, teaching and pursuing theatrical projects. He was Literary Manager of the Gate Theatre before devoting himself to theatrical research. Lanise Antoine Shelley (she/her) is the Artistic Director of The House Theatre of Chicago and the 2021-'22 Drama League Classical Directing Fellow. She is a Haitian actress, director, playwright, and podcast host. Selected directing credits include: Just Cause (Defamation Experience), Pretended (written & directed for Paramount Theatre's Inception Project), Blue Manakin (Rising Sun Performance Company), Rastas & Hattie, Black & Blue, Muthaland (16th St Theatre), Identity Lab (Lookingglass Theatre), The Tenant (Akvavit Theatre), RefuSHE Project (Voices & Faces Project), Rumors (DePaul University). She holds a BFA in directing, acting, and playwriting from Cornish College of the Arts, an MFA from ART/MXAT at Harvard University, a certificate in Classical Theatre from BADA in Oxford, England, and Birmingham Conservatory. She was Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Chicago Fellow 2016 and Victory Gardens Theatre's Directing Fellow 2019. Presently Lanise is the host of the podcast "When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees" available on all listening platforms. She is the 2021-'22 Drama League Classical Directing Fellow. For more, visit laniseantoineshelley.com. ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), located in the heart of New York City, is the country's leading French language and cultural center. FIAF's mission is to create and offer innovative and unique programs in education and the arts that explore the evolving diversity and richness of French cultures. We seek to generate new ideas and promote cross-cultural dialogue through partnerships and new platforms of expression. Founded at the turn of 20th century, the French Institute and the Alliance Française de New York operated as two separate organizations, the first promoting French arts, the second teaching French. In 1971 they merged to form what has become one of the largest and most respected centers of French-American activities in the U.S: the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). For nearly 120 years, FIAF has been the destination for starting, continuing, and perfecting French language skills in a supportive, immersive, and culturally-rich setting. Browse and register for classes here. Through an unparalleled range of cultural events including live performances, film screenings, panel discussions, wine tastings, and gallery exhibitions, FIAF invites New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds to engage with the best of French culture The Drama League advances American theater by providing life-long artistic resources for directors and a platform for dialogue with audiences. Founded in 1916, as one of the longest-running arts service organizations in the country, we continuously adapt to meet artists' needs in the expanding entertainment landscape. We enable directors to make the most powerful, impactful work possible, expand their skill across multiple mediums to reach broader audiences, and build thriving, sustainable careers. Uplifting directors of all economic classes, races, abilities, genders, and identities is a cornerstone of this mission. We provide support to directors throughout their artistic lives, and our work in education offers continued learning to professionals and introduces the skills of directing to young people. Underpinning our work is the support of our members, a community of ardent theater fans and industry professionals whose commitment to advancing the art form helps develop the careers of the talented directors we champion. Leadership support has been provided by Art Lab - Meg Fofonoff, Executive Producer. Red Bull Theater, hailed as "the city's gutsiest classical theater" by Time Out New York, brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences, uniting a respect for tradition with a modern sensibility. Named for the rowdy Jacobean playhouse that illegally performed plays in England during the years of Puritan rule, Red Bull Theater is New York City's home for dynamic performances of great plays that stand the test of time. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as its cornerstone, the company also produces new works that are in conversation with the classics. A home for artists, scholars and students, Red Bull Theater delights and engages the intellect and imagination of audiences, and strives to make its work accessible, diverse, and welcoming to all. Red Bull Theater believes in the power of great classic stories and plays of heightened language to deepen our understanding of the human condition, in the special ability of live theater to create unique, collective experiences, and the timeless capacity of classical theater to illuminate the events of our times. Variety agreed, hailing Red Bull's work as: "Proof that classical theater can still be surprising after hundreds of years." Since its debut in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare's Pericles starring Daniel Breaker, Red Bull Theater has served adventurous theatergoers with Off-Broadway productions, Revelation Readings, and the annual Short New Play Festival. The company also offers outreach programs including Shakespeare in Schools bringing professional actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms; Bull Sessions, free post-play discussions with top scholars; and Classical Acting Intensives led by veteran theater professionals. During the pandemic, Red Bull responded swiftly to the shutdown, creating several ongoing programs to serve audiences and artists with our mission: RemarkaBULL Podversations, Online Readings, Seminars, and more. Red Bull Theater strives to be a home for all artists and theatergoers. We value and practice inclusiveness, equity and diversity in all of our activities, and are committed to antiracist action. All of us at Red Bull Theater are committed to actively working to help realize a more perfect union-a racially and socially just America. "The classics-shaking Red Bull Theater," as Time Out NY has called it, has presented 20 Off-Broadway productions and nearly 200 Revelation Readings of rarely seen classics, serving a community of more than 5,000 artists and providing quality artistic programming to an audience of over 65,000. The company's unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim, and has been recognized with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Callaway, Off Broadway Alliance, and OBIE nominations and Awards. For more information about A Tempest, or any of Red Bull Theater's programs, visit www.redbulltheater.com. |
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