Laurie Anderson, Martha Clarke, Robert Lepage, John Malkovich, et al. Set for ArtsEmerson’s 2011-2012 Season
ArtsEmerson has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will open with Kirk Lynn’s How Much is Enough?, to run September 13-25. Co-created by Melanie Joseph, this Foundry Theatre production will explore the concept of what “value” means in America today.
In addition, the venue will present Laurie Anderson’s new music theater piece/collage, Delusion (September 27 – October 2), Michael Sturminger’s crime drama cum Baroque opera, The Infernal Comedy (September 29-30) featuring John Malkovich and the Musica Angelica Orchestra; and Sulayman Al-Bassam’s The Speaker’s Progress (October 12-16), a new work that explores recent events in the Middle East through the prism of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night.
Other offerings will include two works from New York-based companies: The Civilians’ look at how couples’ separations affect children, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce (October 25-30) and Mabou Mines’ rethinking of an Ibsen classic in Dollhouse (November 1-6). ArtsEmerson will also present a new one-person stage version of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (November 7-12) from Ireland’s Gare St. Lazare Players, performed by Conor Lovett.
Additionally, the ArtsEmerson season will feature Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry’s dance-theater piece, Angel Reapers, which will play November 15-20. As previously announced, this look at the Shaker leader Mother Ann will subsequently play New York’s Joyce Theater (November 29 – December 11).
Other offerings at ArtsEmerson will be Robbie McCauley’s solo show Sugar (January 20-29), to be directed by Maureen Shea; the new music-theater piece The Shackleton Adventure (February 7-12), which has been created by Phantom Limb and features a score by The Kronos Quartet; the Australian circus event Circa (February 29 – March 4); the Universes’ examination of the U.S. through the lens of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Ameriville (March 13-18); and Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s The Andersen Project (March 24 – April 1), a one man show about an artist commissioned to write the libretto for a children’s opera based on fairy-tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
The family-friendly Tomás Kubínek: Certified Lunatic & Master of the Impossible will play ArtsEmerson (March 29-April 1), and will be followed by an engagement featuring Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in Charles Mee’s Café Variations (April 13-22). This world premiere will be a collage of vignettes from Mee’s Café Plays combined with music from the American musical songbook.
In related news, it has been announced that ArtsEmerson will host a return engagement of Les 7 doigts de la main’s Psy, to run July 12-24 this summer. This piece, directed by Shana Carroll, is a new circus experience, which also celebrates the human mind and body.
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