| July 6 - August 15, 2010 |
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Due to KING LEAR'S overwhelming success, we are rearranging
ClassicsFest workshop performances in order to accommodate
the demand. Please refer to our calendar for corrected dates. |
Workshops: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday nights at 8pm
Readings: Saturday afternoons at 3pm |
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| Become a serial theatergoer: fasten your seatbelts and free-fall with us as Antaeus leaps into our 5th biennial ClassicsFest. An invigorating summer splash of the classics, actor initiated, it's six weeks of a dozen different workshops, readings and special events at an unbeatable $10 ticket price! |
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Directors: John APICELLA, Jessica BARD, Gregg DANIEL, Bart DeLORENZO, Robert GOLDSBY, Jeanie HACKETT, Michael HACKETT, Anne McNAUGHTON, Allan MILLER, Armin SHIMERMAN, Andrew TRAISTER & Elizabeth SWAIN
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Scenic Design: Tom BUDERWITZ
Lights: Ariane ERBAR
Lights: Ariane ERBAR
Stage Managers: Kajal ARDESTANI, Rita COFIELD,
Molly McGRAW & Deirdre MURPHY
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Costumes A. Jeffrey SCHOENBERG
Sound: Eric THOMPSON
Props: Jen PRINCE
A2 Coordinator: Christopher MORRISON
Producer: Young JI
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| Over 100 Antaeans, Guest Artists and Academy members! |
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| Staged presentations with a hint of sets, lights and costumes. Actor initiated, these workshops provide our company members with opportunities to take on the roles of their dreams. The workshop presentation is a window into the rehearsal process, where you get to see work that is coming into being, alive and full of surprises. Here's where we discover what we'll bring to full production next season. Wine & cheese reception afterward every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday night, with a small donation! |
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JULY 6, 7, 8 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) at 8pm
JULY 10 (Saturday) at 3pm |
JULY 13, 14, 15 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) at 8pm |
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| What if the Nazis had successfully invaded Britain? Coward explores this scenario in his first post-World War II play, in a new adaptation by Barry Creyton. A U.S. Premiere, funded in part by a generous grant from the Noël Coward Foundation. |
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| Social folly and hyprocrisy exposed by Moliére's comic genius. Henriette's dreams of love have fallen victim to the pseudo-intellectual pretensions of her social-climbing mother. What's a girl with a body and a mind to do? |
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| JULY 20, 21, 22 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) at 8pm |
JULY 27, 28, (Tuesday, Wednesday) at 8pm |
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| Karl Marx meets Groucho Marx in Brecht's comic parable of an ambitious but pragmatic chauffeur's efforts to negotiate the Jekyll-and-Hyde moods of his boss. |
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| Did she have an impetuous affair with Paris and provoke the Trojan War? Or was she kidnapped by the gods and innocent of all crimes? The face that launched a thousand ships…in antiquity's variety of interpretations. |
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| AUGUST 3, 4, (Tuesday, Wednesday) at 8pm |
AUGUST 10, 11 (Tuesday, Wednesday) at 8pm |
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A striking tale of an African from England who becomes entwined in conflict
and rebellion on the continent. Hansberry's fiercest outcry during the civil
rights movement in America, viewed through the struggles in Africa. |
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"It's the wanting to know that makes us matter." Art and science, chaos and
order, intellect and passion, high wit and low comedy combust across two
centuries in this exhilarating and heartwrenching masterpiece. |
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| AUGUST 15 ( Saturday) at 3pm |
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A Duke returns disguised to his corrupt court to take revenge with the only weapon he needs - his savage wit. A satiric gem of inventive language, lurid
acting and moral ambiguity, by the great rebel genius of Jacobean theater. |
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| Actor initiated readings of classics, along with late night events and special surprises. Check back on the calendar for info about other events as they come up! |
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| July 17 (Saturday) at 3pm |
July 24 (Saturday) at 3pm |
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| 1922: Ireland, racked by internal warfare. One of the greatest prose writers of our time pits loyalties vs. moralities, and thrusts a family into the vortex to see who can survive. |
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| The brazen Falstaff suffers a series of humiliations when his scam to simultaneously seduce two wealthy married women goes hideously - and hilariously - awry. |
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| July 31 (Saturday) at 3:00pm |
August 7 (Saturday) at t 3pm |
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| A transient healer, his wife, and his manager in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Charlatanism vies with truth, artist with con artist. Rashomon-like, all three share their perspectives of a wildly unbelievable event. |
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Romeo and Juliet as you've never seen them before. An outrageous take
on the classic love story from Spain's greatest playwright (and Shakespeare's contemporary) in a new rhyming verse translation by Dakin Matthews. |
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