DON’T LOOK BACK
BY GESHER THEATER (ISRAEL)
Directed by Rimas Tuminas
Music by Faustas Latenas
Cast: Anatoly Belyy, Lena Freifeld, Nikita Naidenov, Israel (Sasha) Demidov, Lilian Shely Ruth, Nikita Goldman-Koch, Michael Umanetz, Neta Roth, Nir Knaan.
In this freestyle, sensual, ironic adaptation of the ancient Greek myth, Orpheus is a street musician collecting alms with his hapless father at the train station. Eurydice is an actress waiting for a train on her way to another performance. Love bursts out between them, inevitable as death and pitiless as life. Can’t there be love without suffering? Is suffering necessary for creativity? And is it worth looking back?
Based on the play “Eurydice” by Jean Anouilh, “Don’t Look Back” has been staged in Russian for the first time in 25 years.
One of the last works by the great Rimas Tuminas, created especially for Gesher Theater and dedicated in loving memory of composer Faustas Latenas who wrote the score, the cast features veteran actors of Gesher Theater, alongside famous “newcomers” of the war wave, who repatriated to Israel after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 22, 2022.
*This play is performed in Russian. No subtitles or Translations available
DON’T LOOK BACK
BY GESHER THEATER (ISRAEL)
Directed by Rimas Tuminas
Music by Faustas Latenas
Cast: Anatoly Belyy, Lena Freifeld, Nikita Naidenov, Israel (Sasha) Demidov, Lilian Shely Ruth, Nikita Goldman-Koch, Michael Umanetz, Neta Roth, Nir Knaan.
In this freestyle, sensual, ironic adaptation of the ancient Greek myth, Orpheus is a street musician collecting alms with his hapless father at the train station. Eurydice is an actress waiting for a train on her way to another performance. Love bursts out between them, inevitable as death and pitiless as life. Can’t there be love without suffering? Is suffering necessary for creativity? And is it worth looking back?
Based on the play “Eurydice” by Jean Anouilh, “Don’t Look Back” has been staged in Russian for the first time in 25 years.
One of the last works by the great Rimas Tuminas, created especially for Gesher Theater and dedicated in loving memory of composer Faustas Latenas who wrote the score, the cast features veteran actors of Gesher Theater, alongside famous “newcomers” of the war wave, who repatriated to Israel after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 22, 2022.
*This play is performed in Russian. No subtitles or Translations available
Mermaid Theatre has earned international acclaim for its unique interpretations incorporating innovative puppetry, striking scenic effects, and evocative original music to provide very young audiences with an effortless introduction to the performing arts and the excitement of reading. Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum. Both tales feature endearing rabbit characters, and the soothing rhythms of bunny banter and dream-like imagery never fail to infuse young readers with a reassuring sense of security. Mermaid’s staged adaptation will bring a new sense of appreciation to stories that have delighted several generations. Grades PreK to 3rd.
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Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia has earned international acclaim for its unique interpretations incorporating innovative puppetry, striking scenic effects, and evocative original music to provide very young audiences with an effortless introduction to the performing arts and the excitement of reading. Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum. Both tales feature endearing rabbit characters, and the soothing rhythms of bunny banter and dream-like imagery never fail to infuse young readers with a reassuring sense of security. Mermaid’s staged adaptation will bring a new sense of appreciation to stories that have delighted several generations. Ages 3 to 8.
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Co-Directed by Erin Dilly & Michael Warner
Choreographed by LaQuet Sharnell Pringle
Music Directed by E. Renee Gamez
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land.
*15 minute intermission*