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Cries and Whispers
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 25, 2011
Closed Oct 29, 2011
Running Time:
1hr. 45min.

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In a sterile grey room, an artist lies dying. Her video diaries flicker on screens, offering consoling images of an ersatz immortality as her estranged sisters hover about, removed. Not a word has been uttered and already director Ivo van Hove (Opening Night, 2008 Next Wave) has transported us to a collective soul bound by the most tenuous compassion. On a stage transfigured by grief, gripping performances from Dutch repertory company Toneelgroep Amsterdam drive this modern adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's unflinching 1972 film about the will to live and the astounding human capacity for empathy amid the debris of damaged life.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St
New York, NY 11217


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Director Ivo Van Hove has often deconstructed classic works, such as Hedda Gabler and The Little Foxes, where the main characters are only hanging on to life -- if at all -- by a thread in the end. In Cries and Whispers, his devastating adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1972 film at BAM's Harvey Theater, Van Hove shows us this sort of desperation through a different prism.

The terminally ill protagonist, Agnes (Chris Nietvelt), has accepted her death while embracing everything she loves about life. She's a video artist who focuses on expansive outdoor spaces, and we get to see her work juxtaposed with her suffering and the antiseptic room to which she's confined. It's projected on a screen n[...]


Reviewed by Chris Kompanek on Oct 26, 2011

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