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A Play on War
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
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


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


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[...]


Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Feb 17, 2010

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