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Mabou Mines
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Lee Breuer directs... Director, writer, and founding member of legendary theater company Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer balances compelling theatrics with penetrating human insight, an appreciation of classical mythology with genius originality.
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Mabou Mines DollHouse This Obie Award-winning production continues Breuer’s series of reinvented classics – most recently Peter and Wendy (OBIEs, Outer Critics Circle) – and brings Ibsen’s 19th Century feminism into an equation of power and scale. Shorter-than-average male actors (up to 4 feet tall) contrast women of normal height. The actors perform on a dollhouse set with child-sized furniture. Eve Beglarian's score, a collage of Edvard Grieg's piano works, accompanies each scene and Maude Mitchell’s Obie Award-winning performance brings rare depth and unusual perspective to the role of Nora. Mabou Mines DollHouse turns bourgeois tragedy into high comedy with deep political bite. |
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“A passionate allegory that works – and plays – on many levels. The men embody small-minded convention and stunted possibilities. The women's big forms exude trapped energy, but they also remind us of the outsize roles that women played in the Victorian imagination. There they were angels, monsters, delectable maidens and decadent temptresses. Mr. Povinelli makes us feel Torvald's repressive sexual virility at every turn. Ms. Mitchell keeps us tense to the point of anguish with her ingratiating little cries and compulsive movement. The exaggerations are true to Ibsen. Emotional violence always pulses beneath his stern prose.”
– The New York Times “Above all do not miss...It is one of those moments for which one searches, night after night, and which one will not forget for a long time.” – Le Monde, Paris
Conceived and Directed by Lee Breuer Click here for Mabou Mines DollHouse website |
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Written and Directed by Lee Breuer |
A Prelude to A Death in Venice (Harvey's Version) “The tale of a jilted dog named Rose...who sings an erotic revenge fantasy (through a suite of original blues songs) directed at her homeless former owner, John (who happens to be played by a three-foot-tall actor)...anarchic, playful...smart but flip, infuriating...as prescriptive and liberating as a Rorschach inkblot...” – The Irish Times |
The Crucifixion
Lee Breuer adapts a 12th Century pageant by the "York realist" to a Jamaican dance hall. Breuer's premise is the linguistic marriage of Gaelic-imbued old English with the African dialects of plantation slaves through the British occupation of Jamaica in the 1600's, the proof being the remarkable similarity of Reggae Rap to Middle English over a back beat.
In Breuer's legendary The Gospel at Colonus, he asks, "What if Oedipus were Ray Charles?" Now working with leading Reggae musicians, with a similar blend of entertainment and spiritual force, the question is, "What if Bob Marley were Christ?"
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Conceived and Directed by Lee Breuer |
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The Gospel at Colonus This unique musical theater production opened BAM’s Next Wave Festival and continued to Broadway and international fame. One of our civilization’s most enduring tragic tales, this timeless presentation of the Oedipus myth in powerful Gospel form bridges race and creed and is guaranteed to move audiences emotionally and physically. Recently featured on the 70th Anniversary Season of New York's renowned Apollo Theater and at the 2006 Vienna Festival in Austria.
“The Gospel at Colonus has won a kind of immortality for itself that’s
rare on our fickle stage and it has lost none of its grace and fire. If it fails
to stir you, you may want to check your own vital signs.”
Conceived and Directed by Lee Breuer
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Red Beads An investigation into the arts of opera and puppetry, Red Beads explores a haunting fantasy centering on a young girl's coming of age, in which she is promised her mother's necklace of 13 red beads on her 13th birthday. Red Beads uses vertical choreography - a synthesis of aerial acrobatics, contact improvisation and Japanese ceremonial dance - and wind puppetry to animate this symbolic tale.
“...theater as sorcery...amazing work”
Written and Directed by Lee Breuer
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