Saturday,
June 02, 2007
Commedia dell’Arte
becomes Commedia Dell’Artemisia [Gentileschi]
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The
Brick Theater, located in the heart of
It
attempts to offer an "alternative" to Broadway and Off Broadway,bargain ticket prices,and opportunities for aspiring and budding talents.
In
one of the productions, 27-year-old director Jon Stancato
revives the classic Italian style of Commedia dell
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By
Jenna Goudreau
May
31, 2007
The
Brick Theater, located in the heart of
"The last thing this city needs is more irony," Brick co-founder and
co-artistic director Robert Honeywell said. "How far can a joke with
people in black turtlenecks go" I think we
The Brick Theatre was founded by Honeywell and Greenpoint
resident Michael Gardner after the directors grew fed up with bouncing between
overpriced Lower East Side spaces, deciding to settle into the artistically
budding
"I hope that we are a platform for the Brooklyn arts scene,"
Tickets for The Pretentious Festival are only $10 each, and in some cases, like
Other
works, like 27-year-old director Jon Stancatos
piece Commedia DellArtemisia, also take jabs at snooty
theatrical stereotypes. The production revives the classic Italian style of
Commedia dellArte, which uses masked actors and stock characters, and
farcically satirizes the controversial rape trial of Italian Renaissance
painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Audiences will dig it, Stancato assured,
because it
Stancato believes Commedia
DellArtemisia, presented on June 17 and 19, holds its own in the
festival because its the only piece that has masks, the only piece in
rhyming couplets, the only piece based on an obscure trial transcript, and the
only piece to wring humor from the horrible real-life experiences of an Italian
female painter.
[Also
an] abstracted version of the classic text
Macbeth ... Macbeth Without Words...
Weve always felt weird about doing
Shakespeare. We wanted to find a way to wrestle with those themes and subjects
without doing it straight. The show portrays the classic tale of betrayal
and bloodshed visually, without any dialogue......
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