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Lincoln Center Festival kicks off with the French play, Les Ephémères. A truly visionary play that, at its root, asks life’s ultimate question: What would you do if the end of the world were imminent? In two parts, influential director Ariane Mnouchkine once again delves into the core of our sensibilities exploring personal stories of pain and compassion in episodes that attempt to find meaning in the mundane.
Also being presented by Lincoln Center Festival this year is the Italian play, Trilogia della villeggiatura. Written by Venitian playwright Carlo Goldoni in 1761, this play is a comical three-part satire of the Italian middle class. Italian actor and director Toni Servillo, who recently appeared in the Italian films Gomorrah and Il divo, stars in and directs his own company in this timely piece of comic theater, which reminds us that the masks we wear hide nothing and only draw attention to the complicated realities of our lives.
Lincoln Center also has the distinction of presenting the Polish play, Kalkwerk. The distinguished and highly original director Krystian Lupa brings us face to face with madness, in this masterly adaptation of Thomas Bernhard’s chilling 1970 novel Das Kalkwerk. In dramatizing Bernhard’s psychologically complex story of Konrad, a scientist mentally imprisoned by his obsessive work, and his crippled wife, Lupa is able to elicit astonishing acting from the ensemble.
Lastly, We is proud to present the work of two Hungarian theater troupes this year, presenting Peasant Opera, which was written and directed by Béla Pintér with music composed by Benedek Darvas, and the play Ivanov writer by Anton Chekov and directed by Tamás Ascher. In Peasant Opera, a farcical tale of taboos and tradition juxtaposing present and past in the Hungarian countryside, Béla Pintér, one of Hungary’s most exciting young directors, has created nothing short of an uproarious musical soap opera. In Ivanov, award-winning Hungarian director Tamás Ascher preserves the detachment of the intense title character that iconic Russian playwright Anton Chekhov intended, while dramatically changing the time and the place.
The dates for all of these preformences are as follows:
Les Ephémères at the Park Avenue Armory:
Part 1- July 7 (7:30), 10 (7:30), 11 (2:30), 12 (2:30), 15 (7:30), 18 (2:30), 19 (2:30)
Part 2- July 8 (7:30), 11 (7:30), 12 (7:30), 16 (7:30), 17 (7:30), 18 (7:30), 19 (7:30)
Trilogia della villeggiatura at the Rose Theater: July 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (3:00)
Kalkwerk at Gerald W. Lynch Theater: July 14 (7:00), 15 (7:00), 16 (7:00), 17 (7:00), 18 (7:00)
Peasant Opera at the Park Clark Studio: July 21 (8:30), 22 (8:30), 23 (8:30), 24 (8:30), 25 (2:00), 25 (8:30), 26 (3:00)
Ivanov: July 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
*all performances take place at 8:00 unless otherwise noted
For more information regarding the Festival, please visit: http://www.lincolncenter.org/lcfestival.
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