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The Wooster Group the Town Hall Affair (In De Vorm Van Een Eenakter) Gebaseerd Op De Film ‘Town Bloody Hall’ Van Chris Hegedus & D.A theater The Wooster Group The Town Hall Affair (in de vorm van een eenakter) gebaseerd op de film ‘Town Bloody Hall’ van Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker The Town Hall Affair 1. Intro: uittreksel ‘Lesbian Nation’ 2. Het stuk Bzymek © Zbigniew 3. Coda: uittreksel ‘Lesbian Nation’ wo 21, do 22, vr 23 sep 2016 met licht Jennifer Tipton, Ryan Seelig geluid 20 uur / Theaterstudio Kate Valk Jill Johnston Eric Sluyter, Gareth Hobbs Ari Fliakos Norman Mailer/Norman video en projecties Robert Wuss za 24 sep 2016 Kingsley aanvullende video Zbigniew Bzymek 17 & 20.30 uur / Theaterstudio Scott Shepherd Norman Mailer/De kostuums Enver Chakartash regieas- Acteur sistentie Enver Chakartash, Matthew Lucy Taylor Germaine Greer/De Dipple productieleiding Bona Lee De voorstelling duurt ongeveer Echtgenote podiumregie Erin Mullin technische 1 uur, zonder pauze. Greg Mehrten Diana Trilling/De Vriend leiding Joseph Silovsky technische Erin Mullin Robyn/Ruth Mandel leiding tournee Eric Dyer productie Spreektaal Engels Gareth Hobbs (stem) Peter Fisher Cynthia Hedstrom zakelijke leiding boventiteling Enver Chakartash podiumassistentie Pamela Reichen Nederlands/Frans regie Elizabeth LeCompte speciale dank aan Matthias Neckermann en Sheena See. Na afloop van de voorstelling Bronnen: Town Bloody Hall, een documentaire van Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, 1979, 88 min, op donderdag 22 september kleur. De film is een weergave van het Theater for Ideas debat uit 1971 met als titel ‘A Dialogue gaat Pieter T’jonck in gesprek on Women’s Liberation’ (‘Een dialoog over vrouwenemancipatie’). met Elizabeth LeCompte in de Maidstone, een film van Norman Mailer, 1970, 110 min, kleur. Een onafhankelijke film, geregis- Theaterstudio. seerd door Norman Mailer en opgenomen door D.A. Pennebaker, waarin Norman Mailer een befaamde cineast speelt, die een film maakt tijdens zijn campagne voor het presidentschap waarvoor hij kandidaat is. Lesbian Nation, een boek van Jill Johnston, 1973. Fragmenten in de ‘Intro’ en ‘Coda’ uit de hoofdstukken ‘Tarzana from the Trees at Cocktails’ en ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Your Mother’. © Jill Johnston ‘The Town Hall Affair’ is mogelijk gemaakt door de steun van piece by piece productions, the National Endowment for the Arts/Art Works program, subsidies van the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnerschap met the City Council en the New York State Council on the Arts Gelieve uw GSM uit te schakelen. The Town Hall Affair Town Bloody Hall – documentaire (1979) Toen ze in april 1971 in Amerika belandde, was de tweede druk Op 30 april 1971 filmde D.A. Pennebaker een paneldiscussie van ‘De vrouw als Eunuch’ bijna uitverkocht, vertaald in acht genaamd ‘A dialogue on Women’s Liberation’ (‘Een dialoog talen, en in afwachting van een lancering in de VS. “Vrouwen over vrouwenemancipatie’) in Town Hall in New York City. Het moeten nu weigeren zoals voorheen onderdanig en listig te zijn, evenement was een reactie op de feministische beroering die want de waarheid is niet gediend met geheimdoenerij. ontstaan was na de publicatie van Norman Mailer’s artikel ‘The Vrouwen die denken dat ze de wereld manipuleren door middel prisoner of Sex’ in Harper’s Magazine. Mailer’s artikel was zelf van seks en vleierij zijn idioten. Het is slavernij om je toevlucht een reactie op de kritiek die Kate Millett op hem geuit had in te moeten nemen tot zulke tactieken.” (Greer, De vrouw als haar boek ‘Sexual Politics‘ (1970). Het panel bestond uit Eunuch) Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston en Diana Trilling, met Mailer als moderator. Pennebaker’s opnames Greer heeft een lange en afwisselende carrière gehad als werden later gemonteerd door Chris Hegedus voor de schrijfster, academica en critica van het conventionele huwelijk documentaire ‘Town Bloody Hall’. en de gezinsstructuur. Haar werk vocht de dominantie van de Freudiaanse theorie vaak aan. “Als het huwelijk en het gezin D.A. Pennebaker (1925 -) is een pionier in ‘cinéma vérité’. Zijn afhankelijk zijn van de castratie van vrouwen, laat ze dan aanpak was “op een situatie afstappen en gewoon filmen wat veranderen of verdwijnen. Het alternatief is niet een bordeel, je daar ziet, wat daar gebeurt, wat er gaande is, en iedereen want bordelen danken hun bestaansreden aan het huwelijk en laten beslissen of ze er wijs uit raken” (Pennebaker). Tot zijn het gezin.” (Greer, De vrouw als Eunuch) Ze verscheen ook vaak films behoren ‘Don’t Look Back’ (1967), waarin Bob Dylan wordt op televisie als bekend persoon en deskundige. gevolgd op tournee in Engeland, en ‘Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars’ (1973). In 1970 en 1971 was Pennebaker de Andere boeken van Greer zijn onder meer: ‘Het lot van de cameraman bij drie films geregisseerd door Normal Mailer, vrouw. De politiek van de menselijke vruchtbaarheid’ (1984), waaronder ‘Maidstone’ (1970). ‘Overgang’. ‘Over vrouwen en ouder worden ‘(1991), ‘De hele vrouw’ (1999) en ‘De vrouw van Shakespeare’ (2007). Chris Hegedus (1952 -) maakte aan het begin van haar carrière Recentelijk is ze het grote project aangegaan om een films voor het University of Michigan Burn Center. Hegedus Australisch regenwoud in zijn natuurlijke staat te herstellen. Ze begon in 1976 met Pennebaker samen te werken. Eén van haar pende haar ervaringen neer in haar boek uit 2013 ‘White eerste projecten was de montage van ‘Town Bloody Hall’. Ze Beech: The Rainforest Years’. maakten samen onder meer ‘Jimi Plays Monterey’ (1986), ‘The War Room’ (1993) en ‘Moon Over Broadway‘ (1997). Hun meest Jill Johnston (1929-2010) recente documentaire, ‘Unlocking the Cage’ (2016) volgt een Jill Johston was auteur en becommentarieerde cultuur. Ze werd groep advocaten die strijdt voor mensenrechten voor geboren in Londen, maar groeide op in de VS bij haar moeder, dierencliënten. Olive Crowe, een Amerikaanse verpleegster. Ze studeerde aan het college van Massachusettes en Minnesota en haalde een Jacqueline Ceballos (1925 -) Master of Fine Arts aan de University van North Carolina. Jacqueline Ceballes (meisjesnaam Michot) groeide op in Louisiana en studeerde muziek aan het Southwestern Johnston kwam naar New York om danseres te worden, maar Louisiana Institute. Ze verhuisde naar New York in 1946. In begon met schrijven toen ze haar enkel brak. In 1959 werd ze 1967 sloot ze zich aan bij de National Organisation for Women columniste voor ‘The Village Voice’, het wekelijkse cultuurblad (NOW), die het jaar ervoor was opgericht “om actie te onderne- dat vier jaar eerder opgericht werd door Norman Mailer (en men om vrouwen volledig te laten deelnemen aan de anderen). In haar column ‘Dance Notes’ schreef ze over dans Amerikaanse samenleving, waarbij ze dezelfde privileges en en performancekunst, waaronder haar eigen capriolen in de verantwoordelijkheden opnemen in gelijkwaardig partnerschap kunstscène van New York City. Ze schreef zelfs over haar twee met mannen”. (A. Clapp). Ceballos werd de voorzitter van de zenuwinzinkingen en kwam uit de kast in haar columns als New Yorkse afdeling in 1971 en schopte het tot Oostelijke lesbienne. De publicatie van een jaar van haar artikelen in ‘The Regionale Bestuurder en vertegenwoordiger van NOW op de Village Voice, Marmalade Me’ (1971) leverde haar genoeg Democratische Nationale Conventie in 1972. In 1993 stichtte ze ruchtbaarheid op om haar uit te nodigen voor het debat in Veteran Feminists of America “om de geschiedenis van de Town Hall. tweede feministische golf te bewaren.” ‘Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution’ (1973) bevat haar Germaine Greer (1939 -) dagboeken en essays als buitenbeentje van de patriarchale Germaine Greer werd geboren in Melbourne, Australië, en samenleving en de “rechtlijnige” feministische beweging. Het behaalde een doctoraat in filosofie aan Newham College in boek begint met een beschrijving van haar ervaring in Town Cambridge, Engeland. Haar eerste boek, ‘De Vrouw als Eunuch’, Hall, getiteld ‘Tarzana from the trees at Cocktails’, en eindigt een persoonlijk feministisch traktaat over de seksuele revolutie, met ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Your Mother’, met de bezorgde haar onmiddellijk media-aandacht. “Met haar 1,80m, volledige tekst van de toespraak die ze niet kon afmaken tijdens aantrekkelijke uiterlijk met blauwgrijze ogen en een profiel dat het evenement in Town Hall. doet denken aan Garbo wordt de 32-jarige Germaine Greer de hogepriesteres genoemd van de vrouwenemancipatie in De laatste drie boeken van Johnston zijn ‘Admission Groot-Brittannië.” (Weinraub, NY Times) Accomplished: The Lesbian Nation Years’ (1970-1975) (1998), ‘At Sea On Land: Extreme Politics ‘(2005) en ‘Englands Child’ : © Zbigniew Bzymek © Zbigniew ‘The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells’ (2008), een biografie vrouwenbeweging voor het hoofd te stoten. Ik ben tot de van haar vervreemde vader, een Engelse klokkenmaker. conclusie gekomen dat het (de vrouwenbeweging) waarschijn- lijk de belangrijkste intellectuele gebeurtenis van de afgelopen Norman Mailer (1923-2007) jaren is...” Norman Mailer werd geboren in een Joods gezin en groeide op in Brooklyn, New York. Hij was romanschrijver, journalist, Diana Trilling (1905-1996) essayist, toneelschrijver, filmmaker, acteur en politiek activist. Diana Trilling, geboren in New York, was literair recensent en Hij begon met schrijven toen hij vliegtuigbouw studeerde aan cultureel commentator. Ze studeerde aan Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Hij studeerde af in 1943 en werd opgeroep- Cambridge, met kunstgeschiedenis als hoofdvak. en door het leger. Zijn eerste roman, ‘The Naked and the Dead’(1948), is gebaseerd
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