Category: 12th Grade Drama

Read ’em and weep! The Reviews. “It will end in tears.”

“Rice and her expert company suck you in with humor before stealing your heart.”

Read the USA Today review:

By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/reviews/2010-10-04-briefencounter04_ST_N.htm

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TheaterMania Review:

Reviewed By: David Finkle · Sep 29, 2010  · New York

http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/09-2010/brief-encounter_30774.html

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Older review of the 2008 London production:

Michael Billington, The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/feb/18/theatre1

Brief Encounter Fun Facts:

•The original Broadway production was presented as the one act play “Still Life” as part of the repertory presentation “Tonight at 8:30” that opened at the National Theatre on November 24, 1936 and ran for 118 performances with a cast that included Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence.

• The screenplay was adapted and based on Noel Coward‘s 1935 short one-act (half-hour) stage play “Still Life”. It was expanded from five short scenes in a train station (the refreshment tea room of Milford Junction Station to include action in other settings Laura’s house, the apartment of the Dr. Harvey’s friend, restaurants, parks, train compartments, shops, a car, a boating lake and at the cinema.

• On initial release, the film was banned by the strict censorship board in Ireland on the grounds that it portrayed an adulterer in a sympathetic light.

• Carnforth station was chosen partly because it was so far from the South East of England that it would receive sufficient warning of an air-raid attack that there would be time to turn out the filming lights to comply with wartime blackout restrictions.

Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the mores of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) was an unexpectedly “violent” thing. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce.

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A Brief Encounter with Broadway:” A bold, experimental piece of theatre”

Reminder: Wednesday October 6th Broadway field trip. 

BRIEF ENCOUNTER on Broadway
12th Grade Drama:
Broadway field trip: Brief Encounter
STUDIO 54, 254 West 54th Street, NYC
90 min. No intermission.
Leave Charlton beg. of Drama 1:17pm, back by 4:15pm
Miss last period class.

This acclaimed London production played at St. Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn last season and is now on Broadway. It transforms Noel Coward’s classic tale of forbidden passion into a fusion of whimsical humor, romance and multimedia effects. Using elements of the beloved film and the play on which it was based, along with song and dance, this new work – adapted and directed by Emma Rice – tells the story of a suburban housewife who, over a series of stolen afternoons, falls madly in love with a married doctor.

PLEASE NOTE: Seating will be in the mid or rear mezzanine. This historic theatre does not have an elevator.

“Glorious…captivating adaptation…by the shows end I felt enlivened, enlightened and seriously moved…a surpassingly charming meditation on the forms we use for dealing with that dangerous phenomenon called love…All sorts of ingenious story-theater stagecraft is brought to bear on this exercise…Don’t be ashamed if you, too, feel a bit like swooning.” The New York Times

a very special affair…The most blissfully entertaining and inventive show in town…eye-popping theatricality. Her production celebrates its sources while creating something unique. The show blends live action, film clips, puppets and several of Coward’s ear-tickling tunes into a multimedia collage. The Daily News

Though it shares its title and plotline with David Lean’s 1945 weepie, this Brief Encounter in Brooklyn transcends its source. A don’t-miss import from Cornwall…It’s pure theater magic…its heart, charm and sense of wonder make it the perfect show.. The New York Post

“Rice and her theatre company, Kneehigh, have taken a classic weepie – and turned it into a bold, experimental piece of theatre that will appeal to romantics and deconstructionists alike.” The Evening Standard

Arm’s-Length Soul Mates, Swooning but Stoically Chaste

BRIEF ENCOUNTER by Noel Coward; adapted and directed by Emma Rice
Studio 54

4 stars

“The acrobatics of love are performed in high style, which is surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.”
Ben Brantley, New York Times

In preparation for our Broadway field trip, please read Ben Brantley’s review of Brief Encounter from September 28, 2010
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/theater/reviews/29brief.html

You can watch the trailor at:
http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/theaters/studio54/theater.php

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“CURRENT”

LANGUAGE, TEXT, STORYTELLING

CO-OPT, CUT-UP, CREATE

NEW FORMS

Texts, emails, advertisements (direct mail), articles, magazines, newspapers, postcards, letters;

a montage of words, phrases, images, and drawings.

Co-opting current language, creating new theatrical forms.

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“Sky King”

Chloerose Brée-D’Orazio
September 27, 2010

Passion grows warm… Life flies with a wild cozy poet.  The Sky King yelped air… curly air… blue air.

3778 you know?  Dtf?  Forget it.

Were you neti-potting? Yuck!

It’s so hard to make friends!!!

Sure thong… I like thong… alwaysbooboo

I LOVE YOU

The light on the dark side of me…

Did you know?  You’re my rose in bloom, you friend of mine.  Someone told me… Never mind.

Be fearless… Let our doubts go away… LOVE.  But when it’s all over please get up and leave.  I depend on me.  I’m feeling raw.

Live with the stars in our vision.  Let’s have some fun.  Forget about your memories… your photographs… your organic sweet love, blooming with value.  It must be your favorite love.
LOVE… a creature of pleasure… a gulp of chaos.. gasping to be consumed… a dream.
LOVE… It’s all about love and spirit.  Play on!  Love on!  LIVE on!

For on the fresh, wild, happy life.  DELICIOUS.

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“Must be Memory”

Marissa Bendit

New York Memory

Summer Apples, My Favorite New York Memory

We Thrill

Value Teams, Value Winners; Love Heroes

21 Sweet

Only Musical With Photographs

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Snippet Right There, Did I Scare Someone Away? Cute

A Terribly Large Crush

No Biggie

My Favorite Michael Goose

Whatta Crew

I’m All Ears To Ideas You Goody Two Shoes…You Are Just Too Cute

Alone On A Sea

Life On The Dark Side

Light That You Shine

Kiss From A Rose

Badadah

Hound Dog, High Class, Guitar Acoustics

Stay…

We Got It, Person In Pants

Spree Like Shopping

Little Is Not Just Me

Whatchu Think About Me? Am I Funny? Do I Make You Laugh? Am I Someone To Make Fun?

Raw Heroine…Fuck Stars

Live Fast, Die Young.  Its Overwhelming, But That’s Life, There’s Nothing You Can Do But Wake Up For The Morning Commute.

Don’t Let The About Stop You

My Favorite & Exclusive

The Kick In The Pants Leads To A Modern Attitude Made From Scratch But Not September

The Theater,  Check It Out.

I Amn’t Dead

The Passions I Have And The Compassion Of Others Only If You Believe

I Ensue Chaos, Pleasure.

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“Chaos Gasping”

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September 28, 2010

Big dream arts pleasure seeking consumed virtual game.

Creature of the arts, blood, gulps down the inevitable.

Pleasure.

Big.

Creature.

Inevitably gulps down blood.

Virtual games monopolize us

Utter chaos gulps us up into the sky

Me don’t understand,

Do you understand it?

It? Whats it?

It’s big.

Bigger,

its spirit,

its good.

Singing.

Wishful.

2nd and chrystie.

High on what?

On life? On singing? On cabs?

On the city

If you just send me a message with words I can’t read it

Alone on the sea, the light for me.

Eyes become larger

Rose,

Feel,

Bloom,

Light,

Dog hound, no friend of mine

Hound dog,

high class, no friend of mine

All alone me,

Dark places

Just got it all coming to me

Dance away, loudly

Love is a beautiful thing

50/50 in my own relationships

I bought it all, dear

Electric minds all think, but do gas minds?

I’m feeling the prime of my life

Fuck with the stars go to Paris,

Have elegant cars

Live fast.

Die young.

Have fun.

Forget about the morning news-we are fated to pretend

Believe trust.  Strip up bottled instincts.

Discover, shine.

But grow careless.

Have fun.

Dream dead.

Act dead.

Bottled striped instincts are to have fun,

And grow careless.

Still peace.

Peace believe.

Memory virus, subject to change

Modern attitude, subject to change

It’s all made from scratch: skin, bone, wool, the perfect life, or mozzarella

Your choice

New York or gourmet

Gourmet or New York

New York is gourmet

Related events

Saturday, September 25, 2010 | 1:00 PM

Gysin’s Ghost: Poetry Marathon

Three generations of poets participate in a daylong poetry reading on the New Museum’s seventh floor. Invited are poets that knew Gysin personally, and who participated in the community surrounding concrete and sound poetry; poets that have acknowledged Gysin’s influence; and those who engage in his life’s work of pushing the boundaries of writing, with the goal of tangling and overlapping these three groups to create a dynamic tribute to Gysin. Participating poets include John Giorno, Kenneth Goldsmith, Tim Griffin, Mónica de la Torre, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, Aaron Dilloway, and Christian Bok.

Free

12th Grade Drama visits the New Museum

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

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Brion Gysin: Dream Machine

July 7 – October 3, 2010
Second Floor

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Brion Gysin: Dream Machine

The New Museum presents “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose considerable innovations continue to influence musicians and writers, as well as visual and new media artists today. The exhibition will include over 300 drawings, books, paintings, photo-collages, films, slide projections, and sound works, as well as an original Dreamachine—a kinetic light sculpture that utilizes the flicker effect to induce visions when experienced with closed eyes. “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and will be on view in the New Museum’s second floor gallery.

“An exhibition of an artist who died more than twenty years ago represents an approach to the notion of the new that is somewhat different from the Museum’s standard—one that emphasizes relevance and fresh information over chronology, and brings to the fore a relatively neglected yet very influential innovator who continues to have a strong impact on artists working today,” said Laura Hoptman.

BrionGysin DreamMachineIn 1959, Gysin created the Cut-Up Method, in which words and phrases were literally cut up into pieces and then rearranged to untether them from their received meanings and reveal new ones. His Cut-Up experiments, which he shared with his lifelong friend and collaborator William S. Burroughs, culminated in Burroughs and Gysin’s The Third Mind, a book-length collage manifesto on the Cut-Up Method and its uses. Transferring this notion to experimenting with tape-recorded poems manipulated by a computer algorithm, Gysin created sound poetry and was among the earliest users of the computer in art. At the same creative moment, Gysin conceived of the Dreamachine. During the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, Gysin would continue his collaborations, and prove to be a mentor for myriad artists, poets, and musicians, from John Giorno to Brian Jones, to David Bowie and Patti Smith, to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Keith Haring, among many others.

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William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. The Third Mind, 1965. Ink and typescript on paper. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Hiro Yamagata Foundation

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Born in Taplow, UK in 1916, Brion Gysin was raised in Edmonton, Alberta, but spent most of his adult life between Tangier, London, New York, and Paris, where he died in 1986. Painter, writer, sound poet, lyricist, and performance artist, Gysin came to prominence in the late 1950s when he lived and worked at the infamous Beat Hotel in Paris. Throughout his life he collaborated with a number of well-known writers, poets, artists, and musicians, though his relationship with the writer William S. Burroughs was most critical to the evolution of his thinking. His work has been included in exhibitions at Galleria Trastevere (Topazia Alliata), Rome; October Gallery, London; Galerie de France, Paris; Museé d”Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York. A retrospective of his work was held at the Edmonton Art Gallery in 1998. “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” is the first comprehensive presentation of Gysin’s work in an American museum.

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Brion Gysin with Dreamachine at Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, 1962. © Harold Chapman/Topham/The Image Works

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