Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Theater BAM Announces 2010 Next Wave Festival
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:55 AM
The theater program will include: Ridge Theater's music-theater re-imagining of Persephone starring Julia Stiles (pictured); a stage adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's adaption of Macbeth, Throne of Blood, by Ping Chong by way of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; another movie play, Thomas Ostereimer's stage version of Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun; and an adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis by Iceland's Vesturport Theater, with music by Nick Cave, whose last BAM Next Wave appearance was 2008's Woyzeck. The big opera offering will be a new work by Evan Ziporyn, A House in Bali, to be directed by experimental performance maestro Jay Scheib. An exciting lineup despite the absence of an obvious crowd-pleaser like this year's Cate Blanchet-starring Streetcar.
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