The True History of Julia Pastrana...
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Opened Oct 9, 2003
Closed Nov 9, 2003
1hr. 0min.
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EXTENDED Three Weeks!
The True History of The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World by Shaun Prendergast relates the real-life story of a Mexican peasant exploited by an American showman as a circus freak. The play, performed completely in the dark, asks who is the ugly one--the deformed woman or the profiteering showman? Audience members feel the performers move around them, smell the carnival, and hear the haunting sounds of this bizarre world. They have their imaginations stimulated in ways they have never experienced before. Do not confuse this with a staged reading or a radio play. You won't believe your senses.
Director J.V. Mercanti graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts and was the Resident director of the National Tour of Cabaret. He served as Assistant Director for the recent Broadway revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Neil Simon's Little Me, Roundabout's You Never Can Tell, Signature Theatre Company's Bosoms and Neglect, and the National Tour of Chicago. The cast includes Erin Williams in the title role, Evan Mueller, Jonathan Fielding, Frances Mercanti-Anthony and Jessica Myhr.
Read Philip Hopkins' review and Peter Filichia's Diary.
There are student and senior discounts for $15.00.
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Adventurous theatergoers will enjoy a new play that, in full, is titled The True History of The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, The Ugliest Woman in the World. This isn't a great work of art but it artfully and lucidly handles its special gimmick: The play is performed in total darkness for all but its first five minutes. True, Beckett's Not I, currently running at the Century Center for the Performing Arts, offers minimal lighting. But when it's "lights out" in the new play presented at the Greenwich Street Theater by Amphibian Productions, we're talking August 14 on the East Coast: total pitch, coal-mine, deep-space dark.
Julia Pastrana, by a young Brit named Shaun P[...]