Benito Cereno
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 16, 2011
Closed Jul 10, 2011
Opened Jun 16, 2011
Closed Jul 10, 2011
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Running Time:
1hr. 15min.
1hr. 15min.
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NOTE: This production is postponed until further notice.
First produced in 1965, when it won an Obie Award as part of the Robert Lowell trilogy "The Old Glory," Benito Cereno has not been seen in New York since a 1976 revival.
Based on Melville's novel, Benito Cereno is set in 1770 and depicts the mysterious events that occur when an American merchant vessel comes upon a battered Spanish ship with its nearly all-black crew and a white captain, Benito Cereno.
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The rarely seen
Benito Cereno, Robert Lowell's adaptation of Herman Mellvillle's novella, suffers from an inconsistent tone in Woodie King Jr.'s revival, now being presented by Horizon Theatre Rep at the Flea.
The play opens with an American captain, Amasa Delano (Arthur Bartow) and his lacky, John Perkins (Benjamin Thys), spotting a ship that appears to be distressed in the distance. As it approaches, their curiosity grows and leads them to board what appears to be the Spanish boat of Don Benito Cereno (Rafael De Mussa). Through some plot twists, we get to know the true relationship between Cereno, his "slave", Babu (Jaymes Jorsling), and the mass of chained Africans kept underneath the [...]