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KWAIDAN
May 29 – June 22, 2014
by Lafcadio Hearn
Directed by Izumi Ashizawa |
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OVERVIEW
Inspired by Lafcadio Hearn’s book “Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things,” first published in 1904, visual theater director Izumi Ashizawa brings to life a series of Japanese ghost stories. In Japanese, Kwaidan means “weird tales,” but what Hearn has done goes beyond the supernatural. Over several years, this Western author who adopted Japan as his homeland, transformed kwaidan into a unique collection, where ghostly sketches of an unreal world meet a sense of spiritual reality.
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“Ashizawa’s direction has the same kind of ritualistic beauty that one might find in a Japanese tea ceremony.” – American Theatre Web “Lafcadio Hearn created an illusion and lived his days and nights within its confines. That illusion was his Japan. He found in Japan the ideal coupling of the cerebral and the sensual, mingled and indistinguishable, the one constantly recharging the other and affording him the inspiration to write.” – The Japan Times CAST
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Jacob Yeh
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THE WEDDING DRESS
February 13 – March 9, 2014
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OVERVIEW
Two sisters. One man. A car accident. Those are some of the explosive ingredients in The Wedding Dress, by Nelson Rodrigues, who is widely regarded today as Brazil’s greatest playwright. The plot shifts quickly from reality, to the past, and to the imagination of the main character’s confused mind – in a way that was so revolutionary in 1942 that it changed forever the way theater was presented in Brazil.
Staged for the first time in Washington, DC, The Wedding Dress is the highlight of spooky action theater’s Nelson Rodrigues Festival. The festival event will also feature readings, talk-backs, and lectures about the playwright, who was given the nickname of The Pornographic Angel. The Embassy of Brazil in Washington, DC is an enthusiastic supporter of the festival and this production of The Wedding Dress !
Staged for the first time in Washington, DC, The Wedding Dress is the highlight of spooky action theater’s Nelson Rodrigues Festival. The festival event will also feature readings, talk-backs, and lectures about the playwright, who was given the nickname of The Pornographic Angel. The Embassy of Brazil in Washington, DC is an enthusiastic supporter of the festival and this production of The Wedding Dress !
“During a turbulent career that spanned four decades, his plays were considered so disturbing and offensive that censors banned one of them, with the innocuous title of ”Family Album,” for 21 years, and the premiere of another prompted an irate spectator to draw a gun. Yet Nelson Rodrigues, once derided as ”a degenerate in suspenders,” was clearly the progenitor of the modern Brazilian theater.”
– The New York Times.
– The New York Times.
DIRECTOR
Rebecca Holderness is an artist whose work has been acclaimed as passionate, physically compelling and visually beautiful. In 2013, Holderness was named a Zelda Fichandler Award finalist for her invigoration of Milwaukee Theater. She most recently directed King Lear at Shakespeare and Company (2012) and Ruined at Burning Coal (2013). With Spooky Action, she has directed Kafka on the Shore and Einstein’s Dreams.
CAST
Mundy Spears
Michael Kevin Darnall
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Randolph Curtis Rand
Stefanie Garcia
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Dane Edidi
Rafael Medina
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Tuyet Thi Pham
Aniko Olah
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Frank Britton
Sue Struve
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THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY
October 3-27, 2013
Directed by Richard Henrich
With Lee Mikeska Gardner & David Bryan Jackson “I think it is my most beautiful play since Streetcar,” said Tennessee Williams, “and I’ve never stopped working on it. … It is a cri de coeur, but then all creative work, all life, in a sense is a cri de coeur.” “Gardner and Jackson are quick, light and funny … this assured revival (is) worth it.” The Washington Post
“ a delicious mystery … sturdy and delicate, breathlessly frantic and exquisitely paced.” DC Theatre Scene
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OVERVIEWFelice and Clare are brother and sister, and they are also actors. Finding themselves deserted by their acting troupe in a decrepit “state theater in a state unknown,” they face the challenge of staging “The Two-Character Play.” Unfortunately this illusion within an illusion does not help them escape from the reality of their already deteriorating mental states. At the end, Felice and Clare – and the audience – must face the “confining nature of human existence.” Tennessee Williams was inspired to write “The Two-Character Play” based on his relationship with his schizophrenic sister, Rose.
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