25th April 2000 - The Theatre Times

Opheliamachine

Posted by Directed by Frédérique Michel, based on the play by Magda Romanska, City Garage (2013), USA | 25th Apr 2000 | IOTF 2020: Extended

City Garage presented the world premiere of “Opheliamachine” in 2013, a female response to Heiner Muller’s famous “Hamletmachine.” This bold new text conveys the complexity of a century of women’s experiences in a series of kaleidoscopic episodes. A fierce, modern-day Ophelia is trapped inside the machinery that has created her consciousness, fighting to be heard. Hamlet, overwhelmed by the ceaseless flood of media, watches TV mindlessly, flipping channels with his remote control, consuming a mishmash of human beauty and horror, a daily soup of innocence and violence. This smart, ruthlessly funny play, tracks Ophelia’s impossible journey to bridge that vast space. It is a postmodern tale of love, sex, and politics in the fragmented world of our confused emotions and our modern, global, virtual sexuality. ONE WEEKEND ONLY! May 28, 8 pm EST (NYC) to May 31, 12 am EST (NYC)

Step Memories: Return of the Oppressed

Posted by Written by greenpig, Directed by Yoon Hansol, (presented at Festival/Tokyo in 2012), South Korea | 25th Apr 2000 | IOTF 2023

Step-memories—Return of the Oppressed is the second work of the series An Insistent Reflection on...

Rückkehr nach Reims (Returning to Reims)

Posted by Directed by Thomas Ostermeier, Schaubühne (2017), Germany | 25th Apr 2000 | IOTF 2020

First published in 2009, Didier Eribon’s memoir Returning to Reims follows the French sociologist’s return from cosmopolitan Paris to his small hometown in the wake of his father’s death and after decades away. Having grown up gay in a working-class family with a homophobic father as patriarch, Eribon employs his own complicated journey ‘home’ as a path through which to address questions of political fragmentation and the rise of the ultra-right in contemporary France. Thomas Ostemeier’s acclaimed adaptation – or reimagining, as some have termed it – is a sensual rumination on grief, sexuality, and our ever-evolving relationship with the past. ONE DAY ONLY! This production plays on 16 April 2020. Available from 6.30pm CET until midnight.