Mark of Cain
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Opened Feb 7, 2003
Closed Feb 22, 2003
Opened Feb 7, 2003
Closed Feb 22, 2003
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Mark of Cain is a modern day version of the oldest brother vs. brother story of them all: Cain and Abel. In this streamlined, three-person tale, playwright Morti Vizki connects the horrific tragedies that took place at Auschwitz with the Biblical tale about brotherly love that ends in murder as a result of envies provoked by the Devil.
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The director of Mark of Cain, Jens Boutrup, has come to us from Copenhagen and is studying his craft at Brooklyn College. At 78th Street Theatre Lab, he is presenting his own translation of a play by one of his country's foremost contemporary playwrights, Morti Vizki. One admires the willingness to challenge and expand American audiences' awareness of contemporary work outside our borders; if this piece is representative, there is lots of potential in need of polish among the younger, theatrically inclined Danes. (No Hamlet jokes, please.)
Mark of Cain is an ambitious play that attempts to retell the Biblical story of the sons of Adam and Eve with current cultural references and a kin[...]