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"Think now with double reason... Man has been called natural; you -man - are dust, sand, and pressure. Will you be more, than dust, sand, and pressure?" So asks Woyzeck, a soldier, as he encounters colleagues, medical professionals who think he is crazy, the woman he loves and kills, and the man that his “common law wife” lusts after. This story of unraveling and loss of control opens our season and will be told through Resident Director Tea Alagic’s striking imagery and a new translation by Artistic Director Kristina Mendicino.
The seasons of life in relentless cycle bear down upon a woman from the world of cabaret and
theater in Friederike Roth’s Piano Plays. Then, in the evening's companion piece, Self-Accusation, leave narrative behind and enter Peter Handke's poetic meditation on the "I" in culture, from birth to death, from entrance to exit, from stage lights up to the final curtain.
Preparadise, Sorry Now serves as a modern, sensationalized, post-war world counterpoint to our play of an earlier era, Woyzeck. Controversy, guilt, and cruelty linger in the atmosphere in a Germany where crimes against humanity have been committed. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's post-WWII play, Preparadise, Sorry Now hauntingly exposes history’s relentless and inexplicable repetitiveness through its fast-paced, gangster movie-like quality.
Bertolt Brecht’s Baal—a play about which a Berlin reviewer wrote, “At 24 the writer Brecht has changed Germany’s literary complexion overnight.”—will bring Summer Cabaret 2005 to a poetic close by presenting a break through work of the young Brecht. Similarly, Baal will provide one last opportunity in the season for Summer Cabaret’s artists to leave their own mark upon New Haven’s theatrical and literary world.
All productions are performed at 217 Park Street, New Haven, Connecticut with performances taking place at 8PM Wednesday through Saturday of the first week of each production’s run and Tuesday through Saturday of the second week of each production’s run.
Single tickets are $15-$22 and subscriptions are $36-$58. Groups of ten or more can purchase tickets for $15 per individual. Tickets can be reserved ahead of time by calling (203) 432-1567 and can be purchased at the door prior to performances (subject to availability). Doors open at 6:30 for dinner and drinks prepared by chef Anna Belcher of Anna’s on Orange Street.
We look forward to welcoming you into our space and to sharing our season’s quiet beauty, stark sadness, and penetrating brilliance.