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May 4th - 22nd, 2011: Rogues Amidst the Fatherland
The Producer's Club in the Royal Theater, NY
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CityShow's current event, "Rogues Amidst the Fatherland", focuses on Germany through two plays, All Through the Night and Baal. Shirley Lauro's All Through the Night deals with evil in society and in government, and how the group reacts to one another within it's choke hold. Bertold Brecht, one of Germany's greatest playwrights, tells the story of Baal, and how evil can interact and breed within the soul of the individual. [View Cast Page]
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT by Shirley Lauro
Set during and after the reign of the Third Reich, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is a stylized and surrealistic show inspired by interviews with German Gentile women. The play follows the lives of four young girls, as it sweeps from their teen years through adulthood, during the Holocaust and beyond. The cruel Nazi Regime impacts the women's lives as they struggle with work, religion, marriage and motherhood; each of them having to make overwhelmingly hard choices, being forever changed by Hitler's rule of evil.
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT will open on May 4, 2011 and run through May 22nd in the Royal Theater at the Producers Club in New York, NY. The show will be produced by CityShow Executive Director, Brian Reilly. Artistic Director, Christopher Romero Wilson, will direct. [View Cast Page]
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
BAAL by Bertolt Brecht
In 1922, German author Bertolt Brecht wrote Baal, his first play. Brecht is widely accepted to be the early twentieth century's greatest German playwright. While many of his plays are well known and question societal issues, (such as Mother Courage and Her Children and The Threepenny Opera), Baal is Brecht's exploration of the inner world of man as individual, and what happens when the passionate man devolves into a true libertine.
An intelligent poet and musician - a voracious seducer and drunkard - Baal creates his own moral universe with fierce and seductive braggadocio. The frightening ease with which Baal gains control of beautiful young women, as well as friends, only feeds the rate at which his depravity descends into the pits of hell. Waiting for him is the inner demon of indulgence that wrenches the last drop of humanity from his soul.
Baal woos us, seduces us, draws us in, so that even in the final hours while we sit in judgment, we can still silently question whether we too would have given into his dreadful and beautiful attention – at least for a moment – at least once.
Baal will open on May 6, 2011 and run through May 22nd in the Royal Theater at the Producers Club in New York, NY. The show will be produced by CityShow Executive Director, Brian Reilly. Creative Director, Schnele Wilson, will direct. [View Cast Page]
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Rogues Amidst the Fatherland will be CityShow's first production since its successful Wilde October Festival of 2010, which featured productions of three of Oscar Wilde's acclaimed plays, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Salomé.