Amazons and Their Men
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 5, 2008
Closed Jan 26, 2008
Opened Jan 5, 2008
Closed Jan 26, 2008
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The multiple Obie-Award winning theatre company Clubbed Thumb is proud to present Amazons and Their Men by Jordan Harrison, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.
In Amazons and Their Men the Frau used to make beautiful films for a fascist government. Now she's trying to direct a film that's simply beautiful. The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, who falls for Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War. But when her actors start disappearing, it becomes difficult for the Frau to ignore the real war outside her sound stage. Inspired by the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl.
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Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster St
New York, NY 10012
The Ohio Theatre, founded in 1979, seats approximately 120 people in a 4000 square foot converted hat factory. Soho Think Tank uses this space as its home, tackling some of the more challenging themes of our time in plays dealing with politics, sex, [...] Read More
66 Wooster St
New York, NY 10012
The Ohio Theatre, founded in 1979, seats approximately 120 people in a 4000 square foot converted hat factory. Soho Think Tank uses this space as its home, tackling some of the more challenging themes of our time in plays dealing with politics, sex, [...] Read More
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Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most accomplished and infamous filmmakers of the 20th Century, best known for her groundbreaking film of the Nazi Nuremberg rally, Triumph of the Will. While in her later life she insisted she made a documentary rather than propaganda, her entire career and legacy has been marked by her association with the Nazi party. Jordan Harrison's intriguing yet flawed Amazons and Their Men, currently being presented by Clubbed Thumb at the Ohio Theater, tells a fictional account of the filmmaker's aborted project Penthesilea, examining her complicity with what was going on around her.
The central figure in the play, set in 1938 just prior to the onset of war, is simpl[...]