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Steppenwolf. 3 Short Plays by Tracy Letts Click here for tickets Tony & Pulitzer Prize winning playwright & actor Tracy Letts is the author of August: Osage County, Killer Joe, Superior Donuts, Man from Nebraska and more. Here are three new digital plays by this prolific and accomplished playwright who is a long time member of Steppenwolf as actor and writer. Collectively, they run for less than an hour. Here’s what he says about them, “These plays share at least one thread: a world off-kilter. But since I wrote these pieces, the actual world has undergone some hair-raising transformations, which have cast mysterious new light on these plays. They feel very much like stories for 2021.” They are: Night Safari A monologue filmed in a studio location The nocturnal habits of the Panamanian Night Monkey, the life cycle of the Paradoxical Frog, and the mating rituals of middle-aged male homo sapiens. This wry monologue poses the question: are we so distant from the whims of our biology? Enjoy your tour, and please remember—do not feed the animals. The Old Country A filmed vignette, inhabited by puppets Two men in a diner drain the last drops of their coffees and think about ordering dessert. In the denouement of their (physical, intellectual, and sexual) lives, they wax nostalgic and try to communicate across a wide divide. The Stretch A monologue filmed in a studio location And they’re off, for the 108th running of the El Dorado Stakes! But this race is long-distance... and maybe not what it first seems… Sept 29-Oct 4 All three virtual plays for $20. The Feeling of Going Click here for tickets This is seriously weird but, obviously, this very important Swedish theatre deemed it significant enough to devote enormous resources to it. In truth, I couldn’t make head nor tail of it but I watched it, mesmerised, from end to end. It’s a chance to enjoy one of those rare pieces that most people will never have a chance to see live. Sort of an opera, sort of a dance piece, sort of a drama, it was recorded on the massive revolving stage at the Malmö Opera. Everything about this piece is surreal and spectacular. It's set to the album GO by Jónsi and, in my view, Jonsi has a good deal to answer for. See what you think. Jiri Kylian Collection - No More Play/ Black and White Click here for tickets Choreographer Jirí Kylián is best known for his work with Nederlands Dans Theatre (NDT) in The Hague. As the company's artistic director, he steered NDT's course for 20 years, creating over 50 works for the company. This collection presents nine of his most beloved pieces. Jiri Kylian's inspiration for No More Play came from a small sculpture by Alberto Giacometti: a simple, formless board game with small wood shavings and indentations, as well as two pieces of wood resembling human beings. Rijksmuseum Stories Click here to watch In this episode, Menno Fitski, Head of Asian Art at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, shows us various temple guardians and deities to explain the concept of protection in Asian Art. The Barre Project – William Forsythe Click here to watch World-renowned choreographer William Forsythe and CLI Studios bring you the world premiere of The Barre Project, an exhilarating digital performance created for our remote era. Anything William Forsythe does is worth my attention and that goes double for anything danced by Tiler Peck, Brooklyn Mack, Lex Ishimoto or newcomer Roman Mejia. This is a simple idea, scrupulously thought through and executed. LPO – Interrupted Stories Click here to watch Here’s a rare view of the conductor, Vladimir Jurowski, thoroughly enjoying himself at the harpsichord. His excuse for sitting down is to start this excellent London Philharmonic concert with Vivaldi’s overture, La Verita in Cimento composed for a carnival in 1720. Delightful, and so much less often stuck in our faces than The Four Seasons. The rest of the concert is equally unfamiliar. Back on his feet, Jurowski soon gets to 1820, Louis Spohr saluting his hero, Beethoven, with his dramatic Symphony No 2, and soon moves onto 1920, where Arthur Honegger is watching the sunrise over the Swiss Alps and composing his Pastorale d’été. Quick jump to a riotous cocktail party given by Arthur Bliss (Riot) and then finishing up a most entertaining concert with a work by a living composer, James MacMillan’s Sinfonietta. I meant to watch just a few minutes of this concert but then got hooked by Jurowski’s quiet showmanship and the LPO’s zest to be playing again. It’s still a bit of a shock to see an empty Festival Hall when, after a rousing musical finale, there’s no applause, but Jurowski doesn’t seem to notice and, therefore, neither do his musicians. Rambert - Draw from Within Click here to watch Taking audiences on a surreal and exhilarating odyssey, Draw From Within sees Rambert’s 18 dancers rip and roll through contrasting, vivid theatrical worlds, some dream worlds, some nightmares, some sweet and funny. Together with the dancers, choreographer and cinematographer Wim Vandekeybus has created a lively reflection on a time when we’re desperate for old-fashioned physical interaction, and find ourselves wondering which way is up. Since I'm not sure of what Vandekeybus is trying to convey here, the dance itself has to be its own reward. It’s exciting, just as the late Dame Marie Rambert would have insisted upon, but watching the writhing images, I kept wondering what Dame Marie would have thought about her ballet company having wandered so very far from her intentions. National Theatre - new streams Click here for tickets This is just a heads-up that the National Theatre has added three of its most popular recent productions to its online streams. We can now access A Streetcar Named Desire (Gillian Anderson stars in Tennessee Williams’ great play in this Benedict Andrews production from the Young Vic) , Under Milk Wood (Michael Sheen, Karl Johnson and Siân Phillips feature in the acting company breathing new life into Dylan Thomas’ poetic masterpiece. Lyndsey Turner directs), and Home (Nadia Fall’s verbatim play about homelessness featuring performances from Michaela Coel, Antonia Thomas and Kadiff Kirwan). Coming soon are Antony & Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo, Hedda Gabler with Ruth Wilson and Kae Tempest’s Paradise with Lesley Sharp. Single titles available from £5.99 - £8.99, a monthly subscription for £9.99 or a yearly subscription for £99.99. The First Bluebird in the Morning – LA Opera Click here to watch This is a short digital film from the Los Angeles Opera of a piece composed by Carlos Simon to a poem by Sandra Seaton and choreographed by Jamar Roberts. It is sung by tenor Joshua Blue and the interpretive dancer is Lloyd Knight. It brings to life the thoughts of an imprisoned man on the day before his release. The composer describes it thus, “This piece is a soliloquy of sorts from the perspective of an inmate experiencing life as a prisoner while finding hope and solace in the freedom of a bluebird. I’ve composed dark, brooding music to represent the mundane life of prison, which transforms later into a vibrant dance when the inmate gazes and admires the colourful bird.”
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