  Cjdb16 Member Username: Cjdb16 Post Number: 142 Registered: 11-2003 |
Breathe Art Theatre Project's production of Patrick Marber's critically acclaimed CLOSER opens this Friday and Saturday, at Windsor's Capitol Theatre, before transfering to 1515 Broadway in Detroit, September 29 to October 14. Tickets for Windsor shows can be purchased by calling the Capitol Box Office at 519.253.7729. Reservations for Detroit shows can be made by calling 519.980.0607 or emailing BreatheArtTheatrePr oject@yahoo. com Hailed as one of the best plays of the last decade, CLOSER is the sensational anatomy of modern romance and sexual politics, where a quartet of strangers, meet, fall in love, and become caught in a web of betrayal. Exploring tactical language and the pursuit of truth behind imagery, CLOSER "has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in ways that few plays have." (London Observer). (Contains coarse language and sexual content.) Directed by Demetri Vacratsis Cast: Kevin Young (Dan), Joel Mitchell (Larry), Katie Galazka (Alice), Danielle Boissonneault (Anna) Performance Schedule: Capitol Theatre, 121 University Ave. W., Windsor, ON Friday, September 22 and Saturday, September 23 at 8 pm 1515 Broadway, Detroit, MI Friday, September 29 - Saturday, October 14 Show Times: Fri. - Sat. @ 8 pm, Sun. @ 2 pm Ticket Price: $20 Adults ($12 Students/Sunday, Detroit Shows Only) For more Breathe Art information including casting and theatre directions: www.BreatheArtTheat re.com Hope to see you there! | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 3736 Registered: 10-2003 |
Will have to catch it at 1515. This is an incredible international project, and deserves much more press. | ||
Cjdb16 Member Username: Cjdb16 Post Number: 143 Registered: 11-2003 |
I agree. | ||
Cjdb16 Member Username: Cjdb16 Post Number: 144 Registered: 11-2003 |
Opens tonight in Detroit. Here is what the Windsor Star had to say... (Copyright The Windsor Star 2006) Patrick Marber's "Closer", a play about sexual politics in the late 1990s, is still relevant in the post-9-11 world. The real terror is within. Breathe Art Theatre Project has opened its third season of productions in Windsor and Detroit with Marber's 1997 play about the sexual mores of a group of four Londoners. The play captured four prestigious awards in England, then took the 1999 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best foreign play. Marber also adapted it for the screen in a Mike Nichols-directed film in 2004, and garnered a Golden Globe as best screenplay. Breathe Art's spare but riveting production, directed by the company's co-founder Demetri Vacratsis, was staged at the Capitol Theatre Friday and Saturday, and moves to Detroit's 1515 Broadway Theatre this Friday for three weekends through Oct. 14. Marber, who just turned 42, started out as a stand-up comic and television writer. But "Closer" took him to a new level of respect in English theatre, where he is considered a leader of the "in-yer- face" school that includes Mark Ravenhill and Joe Penhall. They were the angry young men of the British stage in the late 1990s. "Closer" was written at a time before the distractions of global terrorism, when navel-gazing was a survival technique. The four characters in the play are all seriously hung up on surface details, to the point where each is incapable of intimacy. They scream obscenities at each other in a mock display of passion. But love and understanding elude them. They get their kicks on Internet sex sites, by stripping for cash, or simple seduction. All is fair in Marber's world of sex and war. Each of the characters uses sex as a weapon. Vacratsis strips the play to its bare essentials, placing his characters on a barren, black stage with an overhead video screen in the style of a rock concert, where photographic images add perspective to the action on the stage. The production is fuelled by the rock music of Oasis, a band which rose to prominence in Great Britain about the same time as Marber and whose songs also deal with relationships. For all its lacerating dialogue, there are moments of hilarity and even situational comedy in "Closer". One of the memorable scenes in contemporary theatre is that in which Dan, played by Kevin Young, pretends to be an Internet prostitute to lure sex-starved Larry (Joel Mitchell) to a rendezvous. Young is superb as Dan, an obituary writer, who knows death only by the euphemisms he uses in his job. Mitchell's Larry, who is pathetic in love yet successful as a dermatologist, performs the role as an inferno of emotions. The women in this production are its true strengths. Katie Galazka has the tragic allure of the nymphomaniac Alice, a woman who fabricates her past and her name to hide serious emotional problems. Danielle Nicole Boissonneault is the older but not necessarily wiser Anna, a photographer who flies from divorce into the arms of other men but can't find love. Each of the characters in "Closer" selfishly seeks attachment for its own sake. They fail to see that the "Closer" they get to others, the further they stray from self-fulfilment and inner peace. Box office information at 519-980-0607 or e-mail breathearttheatrepr oject@yahoo. com |
