A Play on War
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 16, 2010
Closed Mar 6, 2010
Opened Feb 16, 2010
Closed Mar 6, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Jenny Connell and Rubén Polendo's world-premiere of A Play on War -- inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children -- incorporates abstractions of musical theatre, Arabic clowning, and Peking opera to create a ferocious comedy about a war-torn landscape populated by characters on bicycles, all desperate to survive.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009
This theater is located inside the Connelly Center, a school for neighborhood girls from economically disadvantaged families. This miniature opera house has a beautiful mainstage that was formerly a gymnasium. There is also a black box on the premi [...] Read More
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009
This theater is located inside the Connelly Center, a school for neighborhood girls from economically disadvantaged families. This miniature opera house has a beautiful mainstage that was formerly a gymnasium. There is also a black box on the premi [...] Read More
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Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children meets Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music in A Play on War, now receiving its world premiere at the Connelly Theater courtesy of the National Asian American Theatre Company and Theater Mitu. Conceived and directed by Ruben Polendo with text by Jenny Connell, the piece is stylistically daring, but doesn't quite cohere.
A Play on War is mostly a riff on Brecht's play, and tells the story of Mama C (Mia Katigbak) and her three children, Four Eyes (Nathan Elam), Suez Cheese (Jon Norman Schneider), and Birdie (Nikki Calonge). However, rather than presenting a straightforward narrative, it instead focuses on Mama C's fortune-telling abili[...]