From La Femme est Morte the pop-culture adaptation of the Phaedra myth we are doing in Edinburgh this month. Ticket information here.
Posts Tagged ‘scotland’
Now Playing in Edinburgh
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
One in The Dance
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007A few of us were late to see a play here in Edinburgh and were walking down the street when we heard some drummers, so we followed the sound and popped into this random old courtyard to take a look.
It was a Chinese percussion group.
They were amazing. “The Spirit of the Beat” they called themselves and man oh man did they feel the spirit.
They got the whole crowd hooting and hollering after them in a kind of call and response situation and then took to the streets leading this band of dancing fools. We gathered more and more people as we wandered the streets dancing and shouting and laughing.
After about fifteen minutes or so we pass by a group of kids who, it turns out, were the UK breakdancing champions and they started dancing with the drummers and we all continued on down the street.
It was like living inside a big musical theatre dance number. It was awesome. It was pure dancing magic.
Scotland is Amazing
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007That is all.
Kind of like travel
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007I saw a nice bit of theatre last night.
In the Lobby I ran into several friends who were having a planning meeting for a show this summer. A show that I will be lighting. A show in Scotland.
Its funny that just before heading to the theatre I stopped in at a book store to pick up a travel book about Rumania for my upcoming project there. It is always curious to me how events tend to cluster like this.
So it looks like Scotland is a go.
In honor of that the company will be hosting a Whiskey Tasting evening. Tasting options vary by pric and there will be gallons of beer as well.
WHISKY BUSINESS
a single-malt Scotch tasting
featuring Martin Daraz, the Highland Park US Brand Ambassador
Tuesday, May 1st
at The Interart
500 W. 52nd Street at 10th Ave.
7pm – Brooklyn Brewery Happy Hour
8pm – Whisky Tasting
Taste the best whisky in the world, enjoy delicious dessert pairings, learn how Scotch is made, and chase it all down with Brooklyn Brewery beer.
Live auction with FANTASTIC WHISKY PRIZES!
Whisky Visitor Ticket
$45 in advance/$55 at the door
taste FOUR whiskies including 25 year old Highland Park
Whisky VIP Ticket
$80 in advance/$90 at the door
taste NINE whiskies including 30 year old Highland Park
DISCOUNT FOR READERS OF THIS BLOG!
Whisky Visitor Ticket for $30 with code BUDDY1
Whisky VIP Ticket for $65 with code BUDDY2
for tickets click here
or call 212-352-3101
all proceeds to benefit The Shalimar
www.shalimarproductions.org
inter/national design
Sunday, March 18th, 2007This summer is looking to be quite exciting on the travel front. I will be working outside of New York for several months on a variety of projects. I find traveling to different cities for work to be truly invigorating. The new and changing locales help to give new life to the work I am doing and cause me to think much more fundamentally about the choices I am making in the various works.
In June I will be in Rumania working on the Antigona. This one woman adaptation of the Antigone story is very powerful and I think will be quite exciting. The text is very engaging as is the space we are performing in. I have never been to Rumania so this is quite a new adventure for me. Not only are we performing in Sibiu in the chapel of a fortress, but we might be performing in a bar in Bucharest. There are a few days between these dates, so there will be some nice opportunity for sight seeing. Perhaps even a little bit of travel can be arranged depending upon how the final dates work out.
After that I return to New York to work upstate at Glimmerglass Opera, assisting lighting designer Robert Weirzel. They are doing an entire season of operatic versions of the Orpheus Myth. We are doing Gluck’s Orpheo. I studied with Robert at NYU and have assisted him a number of times in the last few years. Its always fun, so I am greatly looking forward to this.
After Cooperstown I will be traveling to Berkeley, CA to light an opera of my own. I will be lighting a production of Verdi’s Aida with the Berkeley Opera directed by my friend Yuval Sharon. Being from Berkeley it will be a wonderful chance to spend some time with family and friends as well as having the opportunity to work on this rather compelling take on an operatic classic.
After that it is a bit of a mystery. August and September have some interesting prospects although nothing yet is settled. I am in discussions about projects in Scotland and Ireland, but there are still a lot of logistics to figure out. I may have another project in the Bay Area in November, but that too is still in the process of working through logistical questions.
All this travel is certainly thrilling, but before we get there we have a very New York series of shows what with assisting at New York Theatre Workshop, lighting the New York Theatre Ballet, and lighting a play for Gotham Stage Company.
I must say, I really am enjoying 2007.
