Sat Feb 25th
Sat Feb 25th
Sun Feb 26th
2:00 | $12/$10 members | A new play by Nicholas Wright
Travelling Light imagines the birth of silent film in a remote Eastern European village at the turn of the century. Motl Mendl, who’s entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph, makes this small Jewish community his camera’s focus. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.
Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age, and stars Tony and Olivier award winner, Antony Sher.
“As The Artist threatens to win the first silent Best Picture Oscar since 1927? Nicholas Wright’s play offers a fairytale imagining of how it all began.” The Times
“A love letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent evocation of the Jewish folk culture that formed the basis of American cinema.” Guardian ”Nicholas Wright’s new play is a theatrical valentine to the movies.” Daily Telegraph
4 STARS “Enchanting. A golden-hearted tragicomic fable.” The Times
To purchase tickets in advance for any of these events by mail, (or consider the whole series as a gift), please send a check payable to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc, att: NQ. Please memo: “name of play”, or “all four” and send to: Rosendale Theatre, P.O. Box 250, Rosendale, NY 12404. Include an email/phone contact for acknowledgement. Or request a gift notice. All tickets held at the box office.
More info: National Theatre Live
Director Nicholas Hytner, writer Nicholas Wright and members of the Travelling Light Company Antony Sher, Damien Molony and Lauren O’Neil talk about the production. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKHuz4JxzOA&feature=youtu.be
Sun Mar 11th
2:00 PM | $10 | 78 minutes | Documentary | Biography
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL, NARRATED BY BILL T. JONES
Never Stand Still immerses the viewer in the world of dance through entertaining interviews with dancers and choreographers, backstage access, rare archival footage from the 1930s and 40s, and thrilling HD performances by internationally renowned dance companies including: Mark Morris Dance Group, Chunky Move (Australia), Stockholm 59° North (Sweden), Shantala Shivalingappa (India), Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Royal Danish Ballet (Denmark), Mimulus Dance Company (Brazil), Zaccho Dance Theatre, and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Sun Mar 18th
From Teatro Antico, Taormina | Sung in Italian with English subtitles | LIVE on August 9, 2011 at 3:30pm EDT. | Running time: approximately 169 minutes including three intermissions | I Act: 41 min | Intermission: 15 min | II Act: 31 min | Intermission: 15 min | III Act: 26 min | Intermission: 15 min | IV Act: 26 min
Juan Pons stars in Nabucco, live from the Teatro Antico, Taormina, Italy, in this four-act opera, Verdi’s third and the work that permanently established his reputation as a composer. Since its construction in the 7th century B.C., the Teatro Antico’s audiences have watched performances with Mt. Etna and the Ionia Sea as a stunning backdrop for the theatre’s arena stage. The theatre (also called the Greek Theatre) is home to the annual summer Taormina Arte festival.
An opera in four acts, Nabucco was Verdi’s third opera, and the one that permanently established his reputation as a composer. First performed at La Scala in 1842, the Biblically based story follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered and exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian king Nabucco (in English, Nebuchadnezzar).
Mon Mar 19th
2:00 PM | $3 | 1 hour, 37 minutes | G | Documentary
Eight youngsters vie for one of the most hotly contested academic awards in the United States in this documentary. Every spring, the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee attracts students from all over the United States, and filmmaker Jeff Blitz follows eight promising entrants as they journey to Washington, D.C., in hopes of claiming the national championship and a 10,000-dollar prize.
Sun Mar 25th
2:00 | $12/$10 members
I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.
Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your
man? Am I myself?
Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset. Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.
To purchase tickets in advance for any of these events by mail, (or consider the whole series as a gift), please send a check payable to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc, att: NQ. Please memo: “name of play”, or “all four” and send to: Rosendale Theatre, P.O. Box 250, Rosendale, NY 12404. Include an email/phone contact for acknowledgement. Or request a gift notice. All tickets held at the box office.
More information: National Theatre Live
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