Ten Thousand Things Theater, a small Minneapolis troupe, will bring its distinct style to New York City next month. Artistic director Michelle Hensley will direct "Measure for Measure" in a partnership with the Public Theater, one of the nation's most respected producers of Shakespeare. Using the Ten Thousand Things model, the show will use minimal sets and props in a tour of prisons, homeless shelters and rehab facilities.

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MSU's Delvon Roe has time to play "Charles the Wrestler" from As You Like It, and then suit up for the big game!

Here's a qoute:

"When I'm on a basketball court with 80,000 people or whatever, I'm not nervous at all. But I'm in a little arena with 600 people there, I was shaking, scared, didn't know what I was doing. I was thinking I might forget my lines.

"But you prepare yourself so much for that, you've got to go with your confidence and go with what you have worked so hard to get. And that's what I did."

Pretty amazing stuff, and all of us here at A Festival of Fools fully endorse this type of buffoonery! 

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The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus that concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. When originally performed it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed following the trilogy; it has not survived. The term "Oresteia" originally probably referred to all four plays, but today is generally used to designate only the surviving trilogy. "The individual plays probably did not originally have titles of their own" The only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays, the Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. Overall, this trilogy marks the shift from a system of vendetta in Argos to a system of litigation in Athens.


Agamemnon is the first play of Oresteia that details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, and partly because in the ten years of Agamemnon's absence Clytemnestra has entered into an adulterous relationship with Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin and the sole survivor of a dispossessed branch of the family, who is determined to regain the throne he believes should rightfully belong to him


The Libation Bearers (Greek: Choephoroi) is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reunion of Agamemnon's children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Clytemnestra is killed by her son Orestes because he is avenging the death of Agamemnon, Orestes' father.


The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and a jury consisting of the Athenians at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes' murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him worthy of the torment they have inflicted upon him.

Performance Dates

September 2010 - Kirk Theatre, NYC:
Opening night Wednesday, September 8, 2010 running until Sunday, September 19, 2010.

September 2010 until October 2010:
On Tour (San Francisco/San Jose CA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, Vancouver Canada, Los Angeles CA, Houston TX, University of Western Connecticut, Detroit MI, Mexico)

November & December 2010 - Kirk Theatre, NYC
Opening night Monday, November 22, 2010 running until Wednesday, December 8, 2010.

Tickets & Venue
General Admission: $35 (Seniors/Students/Groups: $20)
Venue: The Kirk Theatre at the Theatre Row.

THEATRE ROW (www.theatrerow.org) is a collection of newly renovated historic theatres in Times Square, the heart of the theatre district of New York. Reservations are currently available at reservations@ethosproductions.us or by phone at 646-945-9429 & 646-845-9212

For more information please contact:

• In New York, USA:
  Ethos Productions Inc
  Fotis Michelioudakis
  +1 646 945 9429

The first major revival of David Hirson’s Olivier Award-winning comedy LA BÊTE starringTony and Olivier Award winner Mark Rylance, Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce,and BAFTA Award winner (and star of “Absolutely Fabulous”) Joanna Lumley will begin previews tomorrow, Thursday, September 23rd at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) following an engagement at the Comedy Theatre in London’s West End. Opening night is set for Thursday, October 14, 2010.


A popular street performer and a classical writer square off in American playwright David Hirson's thoughtful comedy LA BÊTE.  The Olivier Award-winning Best Play, written in 1990, pits high-brow against low-brow in 17th Century France when two artists vie for a royal endorsement.   In our age of sensationalism and reality television, what begins as a rollicking comedy soon challenges audiences to decide for themselves: can culture be populist?


The Sunday Express calls LA BÊTE “An instant must-see!” and “a wittily audacious contemporary comedy” while Paul Levy of The Wall Street Journal raves that LA BÊTE is “Incredible! I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.” The Financial Times says “You should all see this play”and Variety writes “The audience is helpless with laughter.” The Independent calls LA BÊTE  “A virtuoso triumph for Mark Rylance” and says David Hyde Pierce is“A comic genius!” while BBC Radio raves “Joanna Lumley is brilliant. She commands the stage.”

Joining Rylance, Pierce, and Lumley in both London and New York are Stephen Ouimette, Lisa Joyce, Greta Lee, Robert Lonsdale, Michael Milligan, Liza Sadovy, Sally Wingert, Deanne Lorette and Steve Routman.

The Independentis calling Mark Rylance “our greatest living actor” for his award-winning turns in Boeing-Boeing (Tony Award), Much Ado About Nothing (Olivier Award), and most recently, Jerusalem, for which he won the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Best Actor awards for his performance. David Hyde Pierce won four Emmy Awards for the role of ‘Niles’ on TV’s “Frasier” and the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Broadway’s Curtains.Acclaimed comedienne and actress Joanna Lumley is best known for playing ‘Patsy Stone’ in the award-winning BBC television series, “Absolutely Fabulous” for which she won two BAFTA TV awards. Lumley was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1995. 


Tickets range from $126.50 - $76.50 and are available at www.telecharge.com and via phone at 212-239-6200.      


LA BÊTE is produced by Scott Landis & Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berlind, Robert G. Bartner/Norman Tulchin, Bob Boyett/Tim Levy, Roy Furman, Max Cooper, Dan Frishwasser, Bud Martin, Philip Morgaman/Frankie J. Grande, and Stephanie P. McClelland/Hagemann-Rosenthal in association with 1001 Nights and Richard Winkler, and designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting by Hugh Vanstone, music by Claire van Kampen, and sound by Simon Baker.

Macbeth
Directed by Katherine Harte-DeCoux

More than just a tale of “vaulting ambition”, Mortal Folly’s Macbeth is not so much a history as a deeply affecting morality tale, an emotional study of humanity risking everything in the name of love and honor, and gravely suffering the consequences. Set in a mythical Dark Age of feudal lords and long swords, this story of sorrow, blood, and destiny explores the balance between Fate and Free Will, and offers a personal, passionate and cinematic take on one of the Bard’s greatest tragedies.

 

 

Mortal Folly Theatre presents
Macbeth December 1st -19th
Wednesday-Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm
at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street NY, NY 10012 (map)

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Katherine Harte-DeCoux
Produced by Stevie Mock and Katherine Harte-DeCoux
Assistant Direction by Stacee Mandeville
Fight Direction by Nathan DeCoux
Weapons by Gotham Armory
Original Music and Sound Design by Amanda Gookin
Lighting Design by Bekah Hernandez
Set Design by John Short
Costumes by Lexi Balaoing

  

AEA approved showcase, Tickets $18
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Featuring:
Mark August, Alyssa Borg, Erik Cheski, Sam Eggers, David A Ellis*, Josey Nicole Housley*, Bryant Martin*, Matthew Rini, John Short, Liz Sklar*, Hannah Sloat*, Brandon Smith, Melanie Stroh, Robert Lee Taylor*

* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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Direct from its sold-out run in Central Park, the acclaimed Public Theater production of William Shakespeare’s THE MERCHANT OF VENICE comes to Broadway for 78 performances only.

"A MARVELOUS NEW PRODUCTION!
This is a MERCHANT for the age of Wall Street bubble boomers, a haunting indictment of a money-drunk society."
--Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Academy Award® winner Al Pacino reprises his stunning performance as Shylock in the must-see event The Wall Street Journal declares “cries out to be seen by everyone with a passion for truly great theater. The best Merchant I’ve ever seen!”

Long considered to be one of Shakespeare’s most thrilling and controversial plays, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE is rich with love and betrayal, forgiveness and revenge. And now, for 78 performances only, you can see Academy Award® winner
Al Pacino, live on Broadway, in the season’s hottest ticket.

Performances begin October 19 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
This engagement is strictly limited,
so book your tickets now.

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Photo: Joan Marcus