Watch the fireworks when old-fashioned family politics clash with the New World Order in their warped quest for the Kingdom of Heaven and insurance money. One woman's odyssey through a European landscape peopled with characters who engage, enrage, defy and affirm stereotypes in a terrifying way. Following the Feb. 7 performance, there will be a talk given by Linda Chapman, associate artistic director of New York Theatre Workshop, who has served as guest dramaturgist for the festival. In a world broken by war, the only things that remain are broken stories. Worlds converge and Nine Come, the bar, is hopping.
Time goes backward.
Anna opens The Book. Based on Japanese puppet theater, a song cycle follows a master puppeteer as he rehearses with his company and deals with unbidden memories. A young American journalist travels to Paris to interview the daughter of Jean Baptiste Lamarck, a noted theorist of human evolution. Ruby, Suzie and Belinda Bee recall a long-ago event, weaving a tapestry of recollections, present occurrences and future predictions. An African-American woman journeys from the North to the South and back again.