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Geoffrey Rush Nei I Armfield Nikolai Gogol Q) ...C R Fiona Shaw Alan Rickman / Lindsay Duncan Abbey Theatre James Macdonald JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN Greed is good , according to Ibsen 's John Gabriel Barkman is a man obsessed with reinvention . He ARTIST TALK: LINDSAY DUNCAN, ALAN RICKMAN, Borkman-until it sends him to prison for AND FIONA SHAW ~~Three of the English-speaking world's most US PREMIERE schemes in isolation while his estranged wife , played embezzlement and leaves him ruined , disgraced, by Shaw (Happy Days, 2008 Spring Season; Medea , MODERATED BY PAUL HOLDEN GRABER BY HENRIK IBSEN JAN 16 AT 6:45PM / 75MIN and desperate for a comeback. Three outstanding 2002 Next Wave), plots the restoration of the fami ly IN A NEW VERSION BY FRANK MCGUINNESS BAM HARVEY THEATER actors-Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman, and Fiona $15; $7.50 FOR FRIENDS OF BAM shining theatrical lights battling ABBEY THEATRE, IRELAND name. Staged by James Macdonald (Top Girls, Shaw-join a wonderfu l ensemble from Ireland's Actors Duncan , Rickman , and Shaw illuminate the deception DIRECTED BY JAMES MACDONALD Broadway; Dying City, Lincoln Center Theater) , Ibsen's 11 an d fraud in Ibsen's John Gabriel Barkman wit h Pa ul JAN 7-FEB 6 (SEE CALENDAR ON PG 13 FOR DETAILS} acclaimed Abbey Theatre to tell this timely tale mordant drama is triggered by the unannounced it OUt On Stage. -IRISH INDEPENDENT (IRELAND) Holdengraber, director of Public Programs at the New Yo rk BAM HARVEY THEATER of one man's undoing in the wake of relentless arrival-and stunning request-of Barkman's lover, Publi c Library. APPROX 165MIN WITH INTERMISSION deception and fraud . portrayed by Tony Award winner Duncan (Private THEATER PACKAGE TICKETS ~TART AT $20 Lives , Broadway) , whom he abandoned to secure the FULL PRICE TICKETS START AT $25 As portrayed by two-time To ny Award nominee power that will forever. elude his grasp. (SEE PG 12 FOR DETAILS) Rickman (director: Creditors, 2010 Spring Season; 2 actor: Private Lives , Broadway; Harry Potter films) , 3 THE DIARY OF A MADMAN US PREMIERE Geoffrey Rush BY NIKOLAI GOGOL ADAPTED BY DAVID HOLMAN WITH NEIL ARMFIELD & GEOFFREY RUSH Nei I Armfield BELVOIR DIRECTED BY NEIL ARMFIELD FEB 11-MAR 12 (SEE CALENDAR ON PG 13 FOR DETAILS) BAM HARVEY THEATER Nikolai Gogol APPROX 130MIN WITH INTERMISSION THEATER PACKAGE TICKETS START AT $20 FULL PRICE TICKETS START AT $25 (SEE PG 12 FOR DETAILS) Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush (Exit the King, Broadway) comes spectacularly unglued as the lowly civil servant Poprischin, driven mad by bureaucracy in Nikolai Gogol's darkly comic short story The Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage by David Holman with the astute director Neil Armfield and Australia's adventurous Belvoir (Cioudstreet, 2001 Next Wave; Exit the King, Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre). A burnt-out paper-pusher who ekes out a meager living in czarist St. Petersburg, Poprischin spends his days doing menial tasks , anxious and teetering on the brink of luna cy. Or is it lucidity? Immobilized by a rigid social hierarchy, Poprischin cuts adrift from reality: hallucinating a canine love affair, imagining himself well above his station, and conjuring entire realms both incredible and terrifying. Deeper and deeper he sinks into delusion, and-thanks to Rush 's astonishing performance-we, too, are eventually subsumed by a world in which reality is, at best, relative. BAM THEATER GALA THU, MAR 10 PRE-SHOW RUSSIAN DINNER BANQUET POST-SHOW SAMOVAR AND SWEETS DESSERT RECEPTION For details and ticket inform ation , contact Patron Services at 718.636.4182 or PatronServices @BAM .org. Q) ARTIST TALK: NEIL ARMFIELD AND GEOFFREY RUSH MODERATED BY CARO LLEWELLYN FEB 20 AT 6PM I 90MIN BAM HARVEY THEATER $15; $7.50 FOR FRIENDS OF BAM Actor and director of The Diary of a Madman discuss ...c bringing Gogol's darkly comic short story back to the stage, 20 years after their adaptation was first performed , with international writers festival director Caro Llewellyn. ARTIST TALK: ADAM PHILLIPS: "ACTING MADNESS" r-- of a FEB 26 AT SPM I 90MIN HILLMAN ATIIC STUDIO II $15; $7.50 FOR FRIENDS OF BAM Psychoa na lyst and author Adam Phillips (Going Sane ; On Bala nce) examines the theatricality of madness as represented in this spring's• The Diary of a Madman, King Lear, and Macbeth. 4 Propeller Edward Hall William Shakespeare The ' I 0 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS The creative team behind the critically lauded 11 2007 Spring Season productions of The Taming of The daring, the dazzle US PREMIERE the Shrew and Twelfth Night, Hall and company BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE handle each episode of mistaken identity ~ith expert and the pure craft of PROPELLER command. When Antipholus of Syracuse and his DIRECTED BY EDWARD HALL servant arrive in Ephesus, they have no idea that this company... MAR 16- 19 & 22- 26 AT 7:30PM it's also the home of their twin brothers. The result MAR 20 & 27 AT 3PM BAM HARVEY THEATER is chaos. Beatings and arrests ensue, followed by absolutely 140MIN WITH INTERMISSION accusations of theft, infidelity, and madness. But in THEATER PACKAGE TICKETS TICKETS START AT $20 the end, comedy and happiness prevail, as mayhem FULL PRICE TICKETS START AT $25 gives way to love and reconciliation. (SEE PG 12 FOR DETAILS) exhilarating.'' ARTIST TALK: EDWARD HALL Imagine you're on an island, unaware that your MODERATED BY BARRY EDELSTEIN -THE NEW YORK TIMES twin brother is there as well. Imagine further that MAR 17 AT 6PM /45MIN your brother's wife mistakes you for him-but BAM ROSE CINEMAS $10; $5 FOR FRIENDS OF BAM not before you 've tried to seduce his wife's sister. Edward Hall talks about his adaptation of The Comedy of Add to this marvelously byzantine mix the gender­ Errors with Ba rry Ede lstein, director of The Shakespeare bending antics of Edward Hal l's inimitable all­ Initiative at the Pu bli c Theater. male Shakespeare troupe, Propeller, and you have The Comedy of Errors for the ages: effervescent, ARTIST TALK: MEMBERS OF THE CAST MAR 24, POST-SHOW irreverent, and deliciously convoluted. FREE FOR TICKET HOLDERS Join members of The Comedy of Errors cast as they discuss Shakespeare's classic play of mistaken identity. 7 H ••• whatever Cheek by Jowl does next constitutes a major happening." -THE GUARDIAN (UK) • 9 Connect with BAM Key • John Gabriel Borkman • The Diary of a Madman F.acebook.com/ Twitter.com/ BAMstage BAM_Brooklyn • The Comedy of Errors • Macbeth Kmg Lear 7:30PM ... Artist Talks 19 20 21 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM • Post-Show Artist Talks 26 28 * Gala JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN (ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES) $52 THE DIARY OF A MADMAN (S AT NIGHT & SUN MAT ) $60 THE DIARY OF A MADMAN (ALL OTHER PERFORMAN CES) . $52 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS $44 $44 KING LEAR (SAT NIGHT & SU N MAT) Abbey Theatre at BAM supported by: Leadership support for King Lear provided by Programming in the BAM Harvey Theater is Frederick Iseman. Additional support provided by endowed by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Bank of America .. The Laura Pels Foundation. BAM 2011 Theater Sponsor ireland BAM would like to thank the Brooklyn cul ture Leadership support for John Gabriel Borkman Delegations of the New York State Assembly, cultur eireonn provided by Donald R. Mullen Jr. Joseph R. Lentol, Delegation Leader; and New York Senate, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM Leadership support for The Diary of a Madman Delegation Leader. BAM 2011 Spring Season sponsor: Leadership sponsor for The Diary of a Madman: provided by Merryl H. & James S. Tisch 13 The BAM facilities are owned by the City of New 11 12 7:30PM DeWitt Stern Major support for theater at BAM: York and benefit from public funds provided 7:30PM 7:30PM Bloomberg Corinthian Foundation through the New York City Department of • The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Cultural Affairs with support from Mayor Michael 18 19 20 The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. R. Bloomberg; Cultural Affairs Commissioner 7:30PM 7:30PM 7:30PM The SHS Foundation Kate D. Levin; the New York City Council The Shubert Foundation, Inc. including Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, 26 27 Endowment support also provided by Finance Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia , The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation for Opera Jr., Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Jimmy Van and Theater Bramer, the Brooklyn Delegation of the Council, and Councilwoman Letitia James; and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. 12 .
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