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Two site-specific performances, Hetero,
and The Sea
Museum
(Le Musée de la mer), will kick off a new partnership
with the Centre Dramatique National (CDN) in Orléans
directed by Arthur Nauzyciel. This collaboration, in association
with Performance Space 122, will create a new platform to
present vibrant contemporary French playwrights in New York.
This year, the first plays by renowned CDN associated writers
Denis Lachaud and Marie Darrieussecq will be featured.
Hetero, written by Lachaud
and directed by Arthur Nauzyciel—returning to Crossing
the Line after the success of The Image in 2008—features
an all-male cast struggling with concepts of gender in modern
society. Humorous and cynical, Hetero is a feminist
argument that is, ironically, defined by men.
In English. Running Time 1 hour 30 mins. No Intermission.
Denis Lachaud, Hetero,
Writer
Denis Lachaud works and writes for the theatre. After J'apprends
l'allemand, Comme Personne, La Forme Profonde, Le Vrai est
au Coffre, his fifth novel Prenez l'avion was recently published.
He has written four plays among which Hetero and Ma Forêt
Fantôme. All his work is published by Actes Sud. He
kept the rehearsal diary of three of Nauzyciel's productions
: Heldenplatz by Thomas Bernhard; Oh Les Beaux Jours by Samuel
Beckett and Ordet (The Word) by Kaj Munk. For France Culture,
he has written two radio dramas: Sans Voir and Moi et ma
Bouche. He staged his own play Ma Forêt Fantôme
during a residency at la Fonderie (Le Mans). He also performs
with Olivia Rosenthal for whom he writes and directs. He
is a member of the artists collective La Forge.
Arthur Nauzyciel, Hetero,
Director
Arthur Nauzyciel was born in Paris in 1967. After studying
visual arts and film, he enrolled at the school of the Théâtre
National de Chaillot, then headed by Antoine Vitez. As an
actor, he was directed by Jacques Nichet, Eric Vigner, Alain
Françon, Anatoli Vassiliev, Tsai Ming Liang An associate
artist at the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, he directed
his first production, Le Malade imaginaire ou le silence
de Molière, after Molière and Giovanni Macchia
in 1999. The show has been reprised regularly since then
in France and abroad. In 2003, he directed Happy Days starring
Marilù Marini, performed in France and reprised in
Buenos Aires (awarded the critics' prize for best foreign
play, best actress, nominated for best director). In 2004,
he directed Place des Héros (Heldenplatz). The show
marked the introduction of Thomas Bernhard into the Comédie-Française
repertory. Aside from his French and foreign career, he has
frequently worked in the United States, where he directed,
B.-M. Koltès' Black Battles With Dogs (Combat de nègre
et de chiens) at the Seven Stages Theatre in Atlanta in 2001,
performed in Chicago in 2004, Avignon and Athens Festivals
in 2006, Koltès' Roberto Zucco at the Emory Theatre
in Atlanta in 2004 and Mike Leigh's Abigail' s Party in 2007
at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Boston, where
he directed Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 2008. As part
of the 2006 Centenary Beckett Festival, he premiered Samuel
Beckett's The Image in Dublin with dancer Damien Jalet and
actress Anne Brochet, reprised in Iceland in 2007. At the
invitation of dancer and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir,
The Image was shown during the Grandes Traversées
Festival in France in 2007, and in 2008 as part of Crossing
the Line in New York. In 2008, he directed Kaj Munk's Ordet
(The Word) for the Avignon Festival at the Cloître
des Carmes. In 2009, he created Marie Darrieussecq's Le Musée
de la mer at the National Theatre of Iceland, in Reykjavik.
Since 2007, Arthur Nauzyciel is the head of the Centre Dramatique
National/Orléans-Loiret-Centre.
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Free with RSVP
Venue
Location in Soho
Specific address will be sent via email upon reservation
just before the event.
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