The Killer – Theater For A New Audience, NYC

May 17 @ 8:15 pm – Jun 29 @ 9:15 pm

THE KILLER – Theater For A New Audience, Brooklyn, NC
By Eugène Ionesco
Newly Translated: Michael Feingold
Direction: Darko Tresnjak
Featuring Michael Shannon

May 17-June 29, 2014

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A searing and darkly funny parable about violence and resistance, Ionesco’s The Killer premiered in Paris in 1959 and has become a modern classic of the Theatre of the Absurd. Berenger, Ionesco’s cheerful, well-meaning everyman, discovers a “radiant city” near his dismal urban home, a perpetually sunny, impeccably clean place full of marvelous architecture and delicious food. The one hitch: a serial murderer has been brazenly killing people there for so long that the authorities have given up trying to catch him.

Oscar nominee (Revolutionary Road) Michael Shannon plays Berenger. Our production will bring out the humor and taut film noir aura of this work, underscoring the cinematic allure of the murders, the futile chase, the bungled investigation and the climactic confrontation with the criminal. The exquisitely simple approach will spotlight powerful, precise acting and spare, sculptural design.

Categories: New York Theater for A New Audience

May

Fri

Shakespeare’s Will, Shakespeare and Co.

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May 23 @ 12:15 am – Aug 24 @ 1:15 am

Shakespeare & Company

May 23–August 24, 2014

Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre

by VERN THIESSEN

directed by DANIELA VERON

featuring KRISTIN WOLD

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Categories: US East Shakespeare & Company

May

Wed

Hay Fever, Stratford, Ontario

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May 28 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 28 – Oct 11, 2014

By Noël Coward

Directed by Alisa Palmer

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Stage star Judith Bliss, her novelist husband and their two grown children have each invited houseguests for the weekend. But as the Blisses indulge their artistic eccentricities in a hilarious whirlwind of flirtation and histrionics, the guests begin to wonder if they’ve landed in a madhouse – and if they can survive the weekend with their own wits intact.