Friday, January 30, 2009

Project 1: Acidemic Theatre - UC San Diego

Woyzeck
-Georg Büchner

"that we have come to call modern drama."
"Georg Büchner’s unfinished 1830s expressionist masterpiece..."

1001
- Jason Grote

"In this postmodern production of Scheherazade's tales of One Thousand and One Nights..."
http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2007/10/22/1001?context=performing-arts

"Scheherazade's tangle of stories is often comic, which can be effective in a Pythonesque way with its physicality and malapropisms that mix blast furnaces with blasphemies."
http://www.curtainup.com/1001.html

The Mistakes Madeline Made - Elizabeth Meriwether

"Twisted, hilarious comedy with an all-star Hollywood cast."
http://www.colorado.com/Events.aspx?eid=56436

"...a dry, quirky comedy that arranges its themes in a neat but not overly anal manner."
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/off-broadway/1437/the-mistakes-madeline-made


Danton's Death - Georg Büchner

"Büchner secretly wrote Danton's Death, a tragedy depicting the activist..."
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc29.html

"Danton's Death (1835, tr. 1928), a pessimistic view of the French Revolution and revolutionary politics; a fragmentary tragedy..."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-BuchnerG.html


The Misanthrope - Molière

"Alceste, the central character of Moliere's celebrated comedy The Misanthrope..."
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater/Misanthrope.htm

"Molière's classic comedy about the absurdities of social conventions and pretensions."
http://www.nytw.org/misanthrope_info.asp

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

"
one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies..."
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-as-you-like-it.htm

"It is a romantic, pastoral, comedy that takes place in France in an imaginary forest called Ardenne. "
http://www.helium.com/items/381190-play-reviews-as-you-like-it-by-william-shakespeare


The Laramie Project - Moisés Kaufman

"The Laramie Project, review of a documentary drama by Moises Kaufman about the murder of Matthew Shepard."
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater/Laramie.htm

"...The Laramie Project is a docudrama about a particular and particularly horrendous 1998 hate crime..."
http://www.curtainup.com/laramieproject.html


Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard

"...retold the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet as an absurdist-like farce..."
http://www.enotes.com/rosencrantz-guildenstern

"Tom Stoppard's funny, absurd, and tragic play centers on minor characters from Hamlet..."
http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/events/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead-by-tom-stoppard/


Surf Orpheus - Book and Lyrics by Corey Madden, music by Bruno Louchouarn

" "Surf Orpheus" is a new musical from UCSD's Theater and Dance department."
http://www.mediafly.com/Podcasts/Episodes/Surf_Orpheus_Puts_Southern_California_Twist_on_Greek_Classic

"Corey Madden directs a concert staging of his contemporary musical, which re-envisions the mythical Greek love story..."
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/742042,1,4873722.event


Tango - Slawomir Mrozek

"
Tango defies categorization, combining elements of farce, absurdist theatre, slapstick comedy and political discourse."
http://www.theatrevertigo.org/productions/tango/tango.htm

"
despite Mrozek's surreal illogic, he is primarily a social satirist..."
http://www.chopintheatre.com/event.php?id=122

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