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Mabou Mines is an avant-garde theater however, it’s laughter that most consistently has Recordings straight from that emphasizes the creation of new work either defined Mabou Mines over its entire history. the stage, however brilliant from original texts or through the adaptation of In the past 36 years, Mabou Mines has produced existing (often classic) texts staged from a re- eight pieces written by , six of which the play, have not worked imagined point of view. Established in 1970 and have been world premieres of texts not originally based in , Mabou Mines is named written for the theater. These productions have on television lately. This is after a community in Nova Scotia near where the led to Mabou Mines being considered one of the founding members of the company, JoAnne Akalaitis, foremost interpreters of Beckett’s work. Our why Lee Breuer will take Lee Breuer, , and language varies from the pataphysical American David Warrilow (1934-95), created The Red Horse colloquialism of Lee Breuer’s texts, the musical his company into a studio Animation, which was presented at the Guggenheim adaptations of prose and poetry crafted by Ruth and record his adaptation Museum that same year. Maleczech, the stark clarity of Fred Neumann’s Over the years, other company members have interpretations of Beckett, the impulsive, inventive of Ibsen’s play as if it were included: L. B. Dallas, Ellen McElduff, Greg Mehrten, language of Terry O’Reilly to the exploration of William Raymond and B. St. John Schofield, along Celtic rhythms and ancient myths by Sharon Fogarty. a film. with present company members Julie Archer, Lee Whether in the holographic performance Breuer, Sharon Fogarty, Ruth Maleczech, Frederick piece Imagination Dead Imagine, in mixing live and This Obie Award-winning production continues Neumann, Terry O’Reilly and current Artistic recorded video to create a visual syntax for the on Breuer’s series of reinvented classics - most recently Associates Clove Galilee, Karen Kandel, Honora stage performance of Ruth Maleczech in Hajj or Peter and Wendy (OBIEs, Outer Critics Circle) Fergusson Neumann and David Neumann. A deep through the use of digital technology for animation - and brings Ibsen’s 19th century feminism into an understanding of a shared collaborative process or motion capture in An Epigog, Animal Magnetism equation of power and scale. Shorter-than-average is what defines the current six-person Artistic and the upcoming Finn, Mabou Mines has remained male actors (up to four feet tall) contrast women of Directorate. on the cutting edge of technological exploration normal height. The actors perform on a dollhouse All decisions, artistic and administrative, large in theater. Work created for other media includes set with child-sized furniture. Eve Beglarian’s and small, are made by the company members. the feature film,Dead End Kids (based on the play score, a collage of Edvard Grieg’s piano works, Each member functions variously as producer, of the same name) and the radio plays The Angel is accompanies each scene, and Maude Mitchell’s Obie designer, actor, writer, or director for the other - my Watermark and The 14th Ward, directed by Terry Award-winning performance brings rare depth and additionally, all participate as members of the Board O’Reilly. unusual perspective to the role of Nora. Mabou of Directors. Almost from the start, Mabou Mines has Mines DollHouse turns bourgeois tragedy into high 36 years ago, Mabou Mines, of all American explored virtually every known form of puppetry. comedy with deep political bite. theater ensembles, bridged the gap between The iconic puppets Rose and John are virtually The production has become an international theater and art. Years before Performance Art synonymous symbols for Mabou Mines. More sensation as the Ibsen Centennial year approaches was popularised, Mabou Mines was a Performance recently, Julie Archer’s award-winning puppets for (2006), having already been hailed not only in New Company – taking as its first principle the idea that Peter & Wendy, Cathy Shaw’s staggering towers of York but at the Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Spoleto life is performance, that the study and practice of puppets for Mabou Mines DollHouse and Basil Twist’s Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, the one is the study and practice of the other. Mabou eerily conceptual wind puppets for Red Beads have Theater der Welt 2005 International Festival Mines believes in a drama of fusion, a drama where further cemented the company’s deep commitment in Stuttgart, Germany and the Festival virtually anything – religion, politics, philosophy, to raising the bar in the exploration of this art form. d’Automne. The production continues its sociology, anthropology, even biology or physics – is international touring with upcoming featured considered a proper mode of discourse from the engagements including Paris, Hong Kong, and tours footlights, when they are partnered with technology, in Europe, America, Asia and Australia. puppetry, music, poetry and visual art. Ultimately,

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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 “C’est un de ces moments que l’on us of the outsize roles cherche, soir après soir, et que l’on that women played n’oublie pas de très longtemps.” in the Victorian Le Monde imagination.” The New York Times

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message in these plays which after all represent the sum total of the experience and wisdom of arguably Germany’s greatest poet who transcends the morality play as in Marlow’s Faust. ONEHELL This is how Michael Billington concludes his review: “Goethe’s play is not a classical tragedy but a OF A work of philosophical enquiry that ends in redemption: Mephistopheles loses the wager – as we always knew SHOW he would – and Faust’s soul is sanctified. The modern fashion is to play this ironically: I remember objecting to Poorhouse International is the highly enjoyable Michael Bogdanov-Howard Brenton year old who allows himself all the liberties which The experienced poet who after all ran the version for the RSC in 1995 on precisely those grounds. delighted to be given distribution are typical for such works. The running time of Weimar court theatre for 26 years gives up on Stein, however, has the courage to endorse Goethe’s nearly 14 hours brings it close to Wagner’s Ring der unity of space, time and action but creates a rich healing, optimistic conclusion. At the very end, a coiled rights by Digital Classics in Peter Nibelungen and makes it impossible to be performed and moving imagery as Michael Billington confirms: steel staircase (which we first saw in the Prologue) Stein’s Faust project, consisting in conventional repertoire theatres. In particular “The Faust, Gretchen love story in part 1 is played with spectacularly descends from the roof, Christian Nickel’s Goethe’s concept of space could certainly not be absolute psychological realism; the eternally discontented Faust rises from his grave and, shorn of his centenarian’s of a recording of the complete realised on any existing stage. Faust encounters pure love and destroys it. In one wig, make-up and outer garments, slowly takes the And Michael Billington again: “What precisely does heartstopping moment Dorothee Hartinger’s Gretchen circular path heavenwards as the chorus tells us: Faust 1 and 2 plays and an Stein have to say about the work? In the first place with enters her room, after the tempting jewel casket has “Earth’s insufficiency here finds fulfilment”. the help of his two designers – Ferdinand Wögerbauer been placed in her cupboard and shudders as if already This not only strikes me as true to Goethe’s belief introductory documentary of 90 for part 1, Stefan Mayer for part 2 – he has found a spiritually corrupted. But, equally, Stein evokes the world that Faustian striving is superior to Mephistophelian or 45 minutes. physical equivalent for Faust’s limitless spiritual and of classical myth in part 2, when Corinna Kirchhoff’s negativity. It is also dramatically satisfying, giving us temporal journeys. The action is divided between two Helen, in front of Menelaus’s Spartan palace discovers the catharsis we crave. And, if rose at the hangar-like arenas filled with portable steel seating; the that she is his chosen sacrifice. As a blood-coloured end in acclamation, I felt it wasn’t just because any Expo 2000 in Hannover allowed stage director audience constantly shuttles between the two spaces. carpet uncoiled down the palace steps, I was reminded theatrical marathon inevitably creates its own form of Peter Stein to fulfil one of his great dreams: to stage In part 1, the transitions are relatively simple: We move of a similar chilling moment in Stein’s production of ‘The holy communion. It was because Stein had taken us the complete version of Goethe’s Faust 1and 2. from watching Faust in his cramped, scroll-filled, bat- and Oresteia’.” on a shared journey into one of the great landmarks Goethe notes in his diary on July 21st 1831: rat-infested study to see him in his meditative sunset- Contrary to the German critics Michael of German literature: one, admittedly, full of digressive “Completion of the main business”, meaning the won the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis a year later and shadowed Easter walk outside the city gate. In part 2, Billington understands Peter Stein’s concept and byways but also one that teaches us the crucial lesson completion of Faust 2 which the 82 year old poet was also seen on ORF, Classica, YLE Teema and SBS. the changes become more daring. One moment we does not believe that you have to submit existing that human energy is an echo of divinity and questioning then sealed and refused to make available for To give you some feeling for this unprecedented FAUST are promenading spectators in the Emperor’s palace texts to a special treatment and there is a clear discontent itself a form of faith.” publication. In a letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt event, here are quotes from eye witness Michael watching a boisterous carnival masquerade, later we are dated December 1st 1831 we read: “The difficulty of Billington who covered the Hannover premiere Stage Director Peter Stein seated at a baronial banquet, complete with food and succeeding was due to the fact that the published parts for the Guardian: “Time is short, and art is long”, says wine, as Mephistopheles, in a mock baroque theatre, Sets Faust 1 Ferdinand Wögerbauer of Faust 2 which you might have given some attention Goethe’s Mephistopheles. He’s not kidding. Peter Stein’s conjures up Paris and Helena. The audience is certainly to reflect 50 years of thinking about the ins and outs historic, uncut staging of the two parts of Goethe’s Faust, Sets Faust 2 Stefan Mayer moved by Stein’s Faust: Literally for two days. But the consisting of fragments as one bit or the other pleased currently playing in hall 23 of the Hannover Expo, has Costumes Moidele Bickel ceaseless motion is not a device to distract us. It is a me but lacked cohesion. Now, an intelligent mind has just taken up 20 hours of my life. You can see it over six way of ensuring that, imaginatively, we share Faust’s Music Arturo Annecchino greater demands on the second part than on the first evenings or, as I did, during a marathon weekend: 3:00 exploratory circular journey.” and in this sense one had to help the intelligent reader pm till 10:00 pm on Saturday and 10:00 am till 11:00 even if transitions would still make great demands on his pm on Sunday. Of course, there are odd moments of Faust Bruno Ganz fantasy. The filling of certain gaps became necessary in boredom. But, even with my faulty German, I found it a & Christian Nickel order to create historical and aesthetical continuity …” brave, invigorating and highly theatrical experience.” directed by for television by Peter Humboldt begged Goethe to publish but the old The fundamental flaw in the eyes of the German Mephistopheles Michael Rotschopf Schönhofer (Faust 1) and Thomas poet remained firm. He felt that the time was not critics, used to excessive Regietheater, was, that Johann Adam Oest, Grimm (Faust 2) produced by RM yet right for his magnum opus. Indeed, a complete Stein did neither de-construct nor interpret & Robert Hunger-Bühler and uncut production of this German national myth Goethe’s Faust. The director holds against this Associates with ZDF, Arte & ORF called Faust had to wait for a determined Peter that Faust 1 and 2 were conceived as plays, they Wagner Justus Carrière running time Faust 1: approx. 5 hours Stein who is deeply in love with Goethe’s language have a dramatic structure, they deal with essential Gretchen Dorothee Hartinger running time Faust 2: approx. 8 hours and was able to pull together a company of great problems of modern mankind and can very well Helena Corinna Kirchhoff actors, rehearsing them for a year and presenting speak for themselves. And Michael Billington adds: Available as a 2 parter or in 6 Faust 1 and 2 in a two-day marathon or over six “But it is nonsense to suggest Stein’s production is episodes. Recorded on DigiBeta 16:9 Running Time Faust 1: approx. 5 hours evenings. Sensing the importance of this event, ZDF neutral, non-committal or even impotent. Monumental and Arte teamed up to commission a recording perhaps. It deploys 33 actors, it has cost around ten Running Time Faust 2: approx. 8 hours which was brilliantly realised by Peter Schönhofer million pounds.” (Faust 1) and Thomas Grimm (Faust 2) for a total of Stein argues that the Faust drama is laid out as a right: Peter Stein 13 hours of television when the show transferred tragedy in the classical sense but with elements of far right: In Rehearsal to the Arena in Berlin after the Expo run. It rightly comedy, farce and satire. It is a play written by an 80 all photographs © Ruth Walz PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 PoorhouseJanuary - March 2008 international 4 peter stein’s faust peter stein’s faust 5

message in these plays which after all represent the sum total of the experience and wisdom of arguably Germany’s greatest poet who transcends the morality play as in Marlow’s Faust. ONEHELL This is how Michael Billington concludes his review: “Goethe’s play is not a classical tragedy but a OF A work of philosophical enquiry that ends in redemption: Mephistopheles loses the wager – as we always knew SHOW he would – and Faust’s soul is sanctified. The modern fashion is to play this ironically: I remember objecting to Poorhouse International is the highly enjoyable Michael Bogdanov-Howard Brenton year old who allows himself all the liberties which The experienced poet who after all ran the version for the RSC in 1995 on precisely those grounds. delighted to be given distribution are typical for such works. The running time of Weimar court theatre for 26 years gives up on Stein, however, has the courage to endorse Goethe’s nearly 14 hours brings it close to Wagner’s Ring der unity of space, time and action but creates a rich healing, optimistic conclusion. At the very end, a coiled rights by Digital Classics in Peter Nibelungen and makes it impossible to be performed and moving imagery as Michael Billington confirms: steel staircase (which we first saw in the Prologue) Stein’s Faust project, consisting in conventional repertoire theatres. In particular “The Faust, Gretchen love story in part 1 is played with spectacularly descends from the roof, Christian Nickel’s Goethe’s concept of space could certainly not be absolute psychological realism; the eternally discontented Faust rises from his grave and, shorn of his centenarian’s of a recording of the complete realised on any existing stage. Faust encounters pure love and destroys it. In one wig, make-up and outer garments, slowly takes the And Michael Billington again: “What precisely does heartstopping moment Dorothee Hartinger’s Gretchen circular path heavenwards as the chorus tells us: Faust 1 and 2 plays and an Stein have to say about the work? In the first place with enters her room, after the tempting jewel casket has “Earth’s insufficiency here finds fulfilment”. the help of his two designers – Ferdinand Wögerbauer been placed in her cupboard and shudders as if already This not only strikes me as true to Goethe’s belief introductory documentary of 90 for part 1, Stefan Mayer for part 2 – he has found a spiritually corrupted. But, equally, Stein evokes the world that Faustian striving is superior to Mephistophelian or 45 minutes. physical equivalent for Faust’s limitless spiritual and of classical myth in part 2, when Corinna Kirchhoff’s negativity. It is also dramatically satisfying, giving us temporal journeys. The action is divided between two Helen, in front of Menelaus’s Spartan palace discovers the catharsis we crave. And, if the audience rose at the hangar-like arenas filled with portable steel seating; the that she is his chosen sacrifice. As a blood-coloured end in acclamation, I felt it wasn’t just because any Expo 2000 in Hannover allowed stage director audience constantly shuttles between the two spaces. carpet uncoiled down the palace steps, I was reminded theatrical marathon inevitably creates its own form of Peter Stein to fulfil one of his great dreams: to stage In part 1, the transitions are relatively simple: We move of a similar chilling moment in Stein’s production of ‘The holy communion. It was because Stein had taken us the complete version of Goethe’s Faust 1and 2. from watching Faust in his cramped, scroll-filled, bat- and Oresteia’.” on a shared journey into one of the great landmarks Goethe notes in his diary on July 21st 1831: rat-infested study to see him in his meditative sunset- Contrary to the German critics Michael of German literature: one, admittedly, full of digressive “Completion of the main business”, meaning the won the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis a year later and shadowed Easter walk outside the city gate. In part 2, Billington understands Peter Stein’s concept and byways but also one that teaches us the crucial lesson completion of Faust 2 which the 82 year old poet was also seen on ORF, Classica, YLE Teema and SBS. the changes become more daring. One moment we does not believe that you have to submit existing that human energy is an echo of divinity and questioning then sealed and refused to make available for To give you some feeling for this unprecedented FAUST are promenading spectators in the Emperor’s palace texts to a special treatment and there is a clear discontent itself a form of faith.” publication. In a letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt event, here are quotes from eye witness Michael watching a boisterous carnival masquerade, later we are dated December 1st 1831 we read: “The difficulty of Billington who covered the Hannover premiere Stage Director Peter Stein seated at a baronial banquet, complete with food and succeeding was due to the fact that the published parts for the Guardian: “Time is short, and art is long”, says wine, as Mephistopheles, in a mock baroque theatre, Sets Faust 1 Ferdinand Wögerbauer of Faust 2 which you might have given some attention Goethe’s Mephistopheles. He’s not kidding. Peter Stein’s conjures up Paris and Helena. The audience is certainly to reflect 50 years of thinking about the ins and outs historic, uncut staging of the two parts of Goethe’s Faust, Sets Faust 2 Stefan Mayer moved by Stein’s Faust: Literally for two days. But the consisting of fragments as one bit or the other pleased currently playing in hall 23 of the Hannover Expo, has Costumes Moidele Bickel ceaseless motion is not a device to distract us. It is a me but lacked cohesion. Now, an intelligent mind has just taken up 20 hours of my life. You can see it over six way of ensuring that, imaginatively, we share Faust’s Music Arturo Annecchino greater demands on the second part than on the first evenings or, as I did, during a marathon weekend: 3:00 exploratory circular journey.” and in this sense one had to help the intelligent reader pm till 10:00 pm on Saturday and 10:00 am till 11:00 even if transitions would still make great demands on his pm on Sunday. Of course, there are odd moments of Faust Bruno Ganz fantasy. The filling of certain gaps became necessary in boredom. But, even with my faulty German, I found it a & Christian Nickel order to create historical and aesthetical continuity …” brave, invigorating and highly theatrical experience.” directed by for television by Peter Humboldt begged Goethe to publish but the old The fundamental flaw in the eyes of the German Mephistopheles Michael Rotschopf Schönhofer (Faust 1) and Thomas poet remained firm. He felt that the time was not critics, used to excessive Regietheater, was, that Johann Adam Oest, Grimm (Faust 2) produced by RM yet right for his magnum opus. Indeed, a complete Stein did neither de-construct nor interpret & Robert Hunger-Bühler and uncut production of this German national myth Goethe’s Faust. The director holds against this Associates with ZDF, Arte & ORF called Faust had to wait for a determined Peter that Faust 1 and 2 were conceived as plays, they Wagner Justus Carrière running time Faust 1: approx. 5 hours Stein who is deeply in love with Goethe’s language have a dramatic structure, they deal with essential Gretchen Dorothee Hartinger running time Faust 2: approx. 8 hours and was able to pull together a company of great problems of modern mankind and can very well Helena Corinna Kirchhoff actors, rehearsing them for a year and presenting speak for themselves. And Michael Billington adds: Available as a 2 parter or in 6 Faust 1 and 2 in a two-day marathon or over six “But it is nonsense to suggest Stein’s production is episodes. Recorded on DigiBeta 16:9 Running Time Faust 1: approx. 5 hours evenings. Sensing the importance of this event, ZDF neutral, non-committal or even impotent. Monumental and Arte teamed up to commission a recording perhaps. It deploys 33 actors, it has cost around ten Running Time Faust 2: approx. 8 hours which was brilliantly realised by Peter Schönhofer million pounds.” (Faust 1) and Thomas Grimm (Faust 2) for a total of Stein argues that the Faust drama is laid out as a right: Peter Stein 13 hours of television when the show transferred tragedy in the classical sense but with elements of far right: In Rehearsal to the Arena in Berlin after the Expo run. It rightly comedy, farce and satire. It is a play written by an 80 all photographs © Ruth Walz PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 PoorhouseJanuary - March 2008 international she6 stoops to conquer working with pinter7 SHE STOOPS TOCONQUER BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH Britten’s new film of She Stoops to Conquer, but in Tennessee William’s The Rose Tattoo, directed directed for television by Tony Britten which equally stands on its own as a fascinating by the late Steven Pimlott and Polya in Gorky’s produced by Capriol Films film study of an 18th Century literary maverick. Philistines, directed by Howard Davies. When she running time: 1 x 140’ or 5 x 29’ A Gooseberry Fool is illustrated by clips from She finishes filmingShe Stoops to Conquer she returns Stoops to Conquer and by Goldsmith himself, played to the National as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing HDTV documentary running time: by Simon, using material drawn from Goldsmith’s Opposite Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale. 1 x 52’ HDTV narrated by: Simon rarely read and startlingly opinionated journalism, in GEORGE HASTINGS - Joseph Thompson Butteriss a formula similar to Simon’s critically acclaimed film After graduating in 2004 Joseph went straight into about Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan, A Salaried Wit. the part of Hardwick in Trafalger ER for Channel The music is taken from a 19th Century opera Four and has more recently appeared as Pedro PHI is delighted to of She Stoops to Conquer, which has not been heard in Eastenders. On stage he played in The Voysey since 1868. Inheritance at the , directed distribute yet another play Capriol Films is a leader in allying high end – high by Peter Gill, as Paris in Romeo and Juliet at the adapted for the television definition work flows with established, cost effective Royal Exchange Theatre and the leading role in techniques. We are looking forward to taking this Petrol Jesus Nightmare # 5 at Edinburgh’s Traverse screen. Oliver Goldsmith, process on with She Stoops, which will be available Theatre. in early December 2007. CONSTANCE NEVILLE - Holly Gilbert the Irish born author of Tony Britten After enjoying playing leading roles such as Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever, Nina in The Seagull and Sylvia The Vicar of Wakefield in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Central School THE ARTiSTS of Speech and Drama, Holly is playing her first had some considerable MR HARDCASTLE - Ian Redford professional part as Constance for Capriol Films. influence on his age, in A familiar face to television viewers, Ian has We are very confident that it will not be her last! appeared in everything from Merchant Ivory’s TONY LUMPKIN - Miles Jupp particular on Herder and Remains of the Day to a recent year in Coronation Miles background is in stand up comedy, where he Street where he played the character of Keith has enjoyed considerable success on television and Goethe in Germany. She Appleyard. On stage he is a regular member of the radio. More recently he has turned his attention Royal National Theatre company and Max Stafford- to acting, securing film roles inHarry Potter and the Stoops to Conquer is his Clark’s renowned Out of Joint company. Order of the Pheonix and Death Defying Acts. He has most successful play. MRS HARDCASTLE - Polly Hemingway just returned from the Edinburgh Festival where he Polly is seldom off the television screen, with roles played the role of Boswell in the highly acclaimed in mainstream drama series such as Midsummer two-hander: Boswell and Johnson: Late But Live. Murder, Cracker and Trial and Retribution, as well WORKING THE PLAY DIGGORY - Simon Butteriss Goldsmith’s famous play She Stoops to Conquer as in single films includingWuthering Heights and In addition to his busy operatic and television was first performed on March 15th 1773 at Covent Fingersmith. On stage she won the Best Actress of career, Simon has worked extensively with Capriol WiTH Garden Theatre and has remained one of the best the Year award for Jim Cartwright’s Road at the Films director Tony Britten over many years, most PiNTER loved comedies in the repertoire ever since, both in Royal Exchange Theatre, where she returned to play recently as writer – presenter of the popular the UK and abroad. The delightfully convoluted plot Mrs Hardcastle in Braham Murray’s production last documentary study of George Grossmith’s life For 50 years Harold Pinter – two young men about town mistaking a country year. and humour A Salaried Wit – Grossmith, Gilbert and manor house for a pub and the eligible daughter CHARLES MARLOW - Mark Dexter Sullivan. As well as playing the role of Diggory, Simon has been at the centre of for a barmaid, has a farcical modern edge. When Having delivered a superb portrayal of English will be filming the accompanying documentary to performed as a period piece, (and this is one play composer Peter Warlock in Capriol Film’s recent She Stoops to Conquer, exploring Goldsmith’s life and theatrical life not just in that really does not lend itself to “post modern” Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy, (currently airing on work. updating) the play is also a fascinating window Sky Arts) Mark spent a year in the role of Matt the UK, but all over the

SIR CHARLES MARLOW - Roy Marsden Barda photos © Clive into the class structure of eighteenth century Hinckley in . Movie highlights prior to this Roy is perhaps best known and loved as Adam world. It is hard to over- him to participate in a master class with some society. She Stoops to Conquer has not been seen on have included young Ralph Nickleby in Nicholas Dalgliesh in the internationally popular television actors and observers. The resulting filmWorking “Working With Pinter is an outstanding Nickelby and Albert Sickert/Prince Edward Albert television since 1971, and it is fair to say that the films based on the P. D. James detective novels. estimate the impact of With Pinter shows him, for the first time in his documentary which confirms that Pinter is one studio bound, multi camera style that was the norm Victor in From Hell, starring Johnny Depp. But Dalgliesh is only one of literally hundreds of career, rehearsing his own plays. for the day would probably not be acceptable to KATE HARDCASTLE - Susannah Fielding leading roles in film, television and theatre that he his work. His 29 plays are The film is an attempt to capture something of of our most fascinating playwrights, a man in a contemporary audience accustomed to a much Gifted young actress Susannah went straight from has played in a career that runs parallel to his highly the collaborative spirit that makes working with him whom awe-inspiring talent and an awful attitude drama college to the Royal National Theatre to continually produced with more filmic approach, and this is the nub of this acclaimed work as a theatre director. a very special experience. To shed further light on are forever entwined.” project. play Zoë Wanamaker’s daughter Rosa delle Rose Pinter’s essential character we filmed the playwright We are shooting She Stoops to Conquer entirely undimmed enthusiasm The Observer Ian Redford Mr Hardcastle in conversation with his school friend and theatrical on location at the Jacobean Wiveton Hall in North Polly Hemmingway Mrs Hardcastle by school students and collaborator of over sixty years, Henry Woolf. Norfolk on single camera and in high definition – in Miles Jupp Tony Lumpkin Their talk adds greatly to this intimate and revealing other words a film, not a constricted stage relay. the great directors and portrait. “Harry Burton’s profile, on the 50th anniversary We will be using a visual language that a modern actors alike. Perhaps only Pinter’s inspirational faith in the creative process of his first theatrical production, The Room, audience relates to, lifting the play out of the as instinctive, intuitive and often mysterious has attempts to put the playwright in a more proper theatre in the same way that Capriol’s Boheme and been known to confound people. A young actor Falstaff have lifted opera out of the opera house. Samuel Beckett has made (named Alan Ayckbourn) rehearsing an early perspective, emphasising his humour, his skills Tony Britten’s new screen version preserves all the a comparable contribution production of The Birthday Party once asked as a collaborator, and explains why his characters original Goldsmith dialogue but enlivens it with Pinter about the background and parentage of the speak in that stilted way.” cutaways, exteriors, close ups and all the tools in to the development of character of Stanley. Pinter’s answer: ‘Mind your own the contemporary film maker’s box. fucking business.’ That uncompromising edginess at The Guardian Mark Dexter Marlow The film is being made for Sky Arts, with support Joseph Thompson Hastings dramatic form in the last the uninvited probing of others is ever-present in from Screen East. It will last 140 minutes and can Susannah Fielding Kate Hardcastle Pinter. It isn’t necessarily wise to ask him: ‘How are be delivered complete, or in episodes, twenty nine 100 years. you?’ He hasn’t mellowed much in the time I have “Harry Burton, director and old friend, wanted minutes per episode including titles, which makes it known him. But on Working With Pinter his frank to present the supposedly ‘remote’ Harold Pinter ideal for stripping over five days. Pinter’s contribution to the evolution of British and good-humoured willingness to discuss his own as, in fact, a true collaborator in the high craft of film is also enormous, for example:The Go Between, work was at times surprising. When asked about the theatre, and he succeeded. Burton’s film may even THE DOCUMENTARY - The Servant, Accident, The Pumpkin Eater, The French significance of the pauses and silences for which he is so famous, he answered: “I think the terms ‘silence’ have changed a few critical minds.” Lieutenant’s Woman, The Comfort of Strangers and, A GOOSEBERRY FOOL and ‘pause’ have been taken much too far. In fact, when The Daily Telegraph Outspoken, infuriating and very funny, the just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Kenneth Branagh’s 2007 version of Sleuth. Pinter’s furious I act myself in my own plays (which I have occasionally), Irish writer Oliver Goldmith both outraged and I’ve cut half of them actually.” delighted 18th Century London’s literary scene. Holly Gilbert Constance Neville poems about both Gulf Wars won the Wilfred Simon Butteriss Diggory Owen prize in 2004. And in later life his increased Jane Glover “There is something rather wonderful about Today he is remembered almost solely for his Roy Marsden Sir Charles Marlow boisterous comedy, She Stoops to Conquer which political activism has served as a point of leadership watching the two septuagenerians in discussion, exploded onto the sedate London stage and for those opposed to illegal wars and international but this is more than just two old codgers duplicitousness. changed the face of English Comedy forever. reminiscing: it becomes a potted history of post- Actor, Writer and Presenter Simon Butteriss Although he made a full recovery from the directed by Harry Burton produced discovers how Goldsmith’s writing was shaped and oesophageal cancer diagnosed a few years earlier, by Robert Fox Limited & Channel war British theatre and a fascinating examination coloured by truly extraordinary events in his life in 2005 Pinter felt he had no longer the energy of the role of politics in the arts.” and presents a sympathetic portrait of the man as to direct plays. As a young actor I had learned and Four running time: 57’ DigiBeta Time Out well as a lively analysis of his work in a documentary grown from being directed by him, and so I invited that provides the perfect counterpart to Tony PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 PoorhouseJanuary - March 2008 international she6 stoops to conquer working with pinter7 SHE STOOPS TOCONQUER BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH Britten’s new film of She Stoops to Conquer, but in Tennessee William’s The Rose Tattoo, directed directed for television by Tony Britten which equally stands on its own as a fascinating by the late Steven Pimlott and Polya in Gorky’s produced by Capriol Films film study of an 18th Century literary maverick. Philistines, directed by Howard Davies. When she running time: 1 x 140’ or 5 x 29’ A Gooseberry Fool is illustrated by clips from She finishes filmingShe Stoops to Conquer she returns Stoops to Conquer and by Goldsmith himself, played to the National as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing HDTV documentary running time: by Simon, using material drawn from Goldsmith’s Opposite Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale. 1 x 52’ HDTV narrated by: Simon rarely read and startlingly opinionated journalism, in GEORGE HASTINGS - Joseph Thompson Butteriss a formula similar to Simon’s critically acclaimed film After graduating in 2004 Joseph went straight into about Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan, A Salaried Wit. the part of Hardwick in Trafalger ER for Channel The music is taken from a 19th Century opera Four and has more recently appeared as Pedro PHI is delighted to of She Stoops to Conquer, which has not been heard in Eastenders. On stage he played in The Voysey since 1868. Inheritance at the Royal National Theatre, directed distribute yet another play Capriol Films is a leader in allying high end – high by Peter Gill, as Paris in Romeo and Juliet at the adapted for the television definition work flows with established, cost effective Royal Exchange Theatre and the leading role in techniques. We are looking forward to taking this Petrol Jesus Nightmare # 5 at Edinburgh’s Traverse screen. Oliver Goldsmith, process on with She Stoops, which will be available Theatre. in early December 2007. CONSTANCE NEVILLE - Holly Gilbert the Irish born author of Tony Britten After enjoying playing leading roles such as Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever, Nina in The Seagull and Sylvia The Vicar of Wakefield in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Central School THE ARTiSTS of Speech and Drama, Holly is playing her first had some considerable MR HARDCASTLE - Ian Redford professional part as Constance for Capriol Films. influence on his age, in A familiar face to television viewers, Ian has We are very confident that it will not be her last! appeared in everything from Merchant Ivory’s TONY LUMPKIN - Miles Jupp particular on Herder and Remains of the Day to a recent year in Coronation Miles background is in stand up comedy, where he Street where he played the character of Keith has enjoyed considerable success on television and Goethe in Germany. She Appleyard. On stage he is a regular member of the radio. More recently he has turned his attention Royal National Theatre company and Max Stafford- to acting, securing film roles inHarry Potter and the Stoops to Conquer is his Clark’s renowned Out of Joint company. Order of the Pheonix and Death Defying Acts. He has most successful play. MRS HARDCASTLE - Polly Hemingway just returned from the Edinburgh Festival where he Polly is seldom off the television screen, with roles played the role of Boswell in the highly acclaimed in mainstream drama series such as Midsummer two-hander: Boswell and Johnson: Late But Live. Murder, Cracker and Trial and Retribution, as well WORKING THE PLAY DIGGORY - Simon Butteriss Goldsmith’s famous play She Stoops to Conquer as in single films includingWuthering Heights and In addition to his busy operatic and television was first performed on March 15th 1773 at Covent Fingersmith. On stage she won the Best Actress of career, Simon has worked extensively with Capriol WiTH Garden Theatre and has remained one of the best the Year award for Jim Cartwright’s Road at the Films director Tony Britten over many years, most PiNTER loved comedies in the repertoire ever since, both in Royal Exchange Theatre, where she returned to play recently as writer – presenter of the popular the UK and abroad. The delightfully convoluted plot Mrs Hardcastle in Braham Murray’s production last documentary study of George Grossmith’s life For 50 years Harold Pinter – two young men about town mistaking a country year. and humour A Salaried Wit – Grossmith, Gilbert and manor house for a pub and the eligible daughter CHARLES MARLOW - Mark Dexter Sullivan. As well as playing the role of Diggory, Simon has been at the centre of for a barmaid, has a farcical modern edge. When Having delivered a superb portrayal of English will be filming the accompanying documentary to performed as a period piece, (and this is one play composer Peter Warlock in Capriol Film’s recent She Stoops to Conquer, exploring Goldsmith’s life and theatrical life not just in that really does not lend itself to “post modern” Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy, (currently airing on work. updating) the play is also a fascinating window Sky Arts) Mark spent a year in the role of Matt the UK, but all over the

SIR CHARLES MARLOW - Roy Marsden Barda photos © Clive into the class structure of eighteenth century Hinckley in The Bill. Movie highlights prior to this Roy is perhaps best known and loved as Adam world. It is hard to over- him to participate in a master class with some society. She Stoops to Conquer has not been seen on have included young Ralph Nickleby in Nicholas Dalgliesh in the internationally popular television actors and observers. The resulting filmWorking “Working With Pinter is an outstanding Nickelby and Albert Sickert/Prince Edward Albert television since 1971, and it is fair to say that the films based on the P. D. James detective novels. estimate the impact of With Pinter shows him, for the first time in his documentary which confirms that Pinter is one studio bound, multi camera style that was the norm Victor in From Hell, starring Johnny Depp. But Dalgliesh is only one of literally hundreds of career, rehearsing his own plays. for the day would probably not be acceptable to KATE HARDCASTLE - Susannah Fielding leading roles in film, television and theatre that he his work. His 29 plays are The film is an attempt to capture something of of our most fascinating playwrights, a man in a contemporary audience accustomed to a much Gifted young actress Susannah went straight from has played in a career that runs parallel to his highly the collaborative spirit that makes working with him whom awe-inspiring talent and an awful attitude drama college to the Royal National Theatre to continually produced with more filmic approach, and this is the nub of this acclaimed work as a theatre director. a very special experience. To shed further light on are forever entwined.” project. play Zoë Wanamaker’s daughter Rosa delle Rose Pinter’s essential character we filmed the playwright We are shooting She Stoops to Conquer entirely undimmed enthusiasm The Observer Ian Redford Mr Hardcastle in conversation with his school friend and theatrical on location at the Jacobean Wiveton Hall in North Polly Hemmingway Mrs Hardcastle by school students and collaborator of over sixty years, Henry Woolf. Norfolk on single camera and in high definition – in Miles Jupp Tony Lumpkin Their talk adds greatly to this intimate and revealing other words a film, not a constricted stage relay. the great directors and portrait. “Harry Burton’s profile, on the 50th anniversary We will be using a visual language that a modern actors alike. Perhaps only Pinter’s inspirational faith in the creative process of his first theatrical production, The Room, audience relates to, lifting the play out of the as instinctive, intuitive and often mysterious has attempts to put the playwright in a more proper theatre in the same way that Capriol’s Boheme and been known to confound people. A young actor Falstaff have lifted opera out of the opera house. Samuel Beckett has made (named Alan Ayckbourn) rehearsing an early perspective, emphasising his humour, his skills Tony Britten’s new screen version preserves all the a comparable contribution production of The Birthday Party once asked as a collaborator, and explains why his characters original Goldsmith dialogue but enlivens it with Pinter about the background and parentage of the speak in that stilted way.” cutaways, exteriors, close ups and all the tools in to the development of character of Stanley. Pinter’s answer: ‘Mind your own the contemporary film maker’s box. fucking business.’ That uncompromising edginess at The Guardian Mark Dexter Marlow The film is being made for Sky Arts, with support Joseph Thompson Hastings dramatic form in the last the uninvited probing of others is ever-present in from Screen East. It will last 140 minutes and can Susannah Fielding Kate Hardcastle Pinter. It isn’t necessarily wise to ask him: ‘How are be delivered complete, or in episodes, twenty nine 100 years. you?’ He hasn’t mellowed much in the time I have “Harry Burton, director and old friend, wanted minutes per episode including titles, which makes it known him. But on Working With Pinter his frank to present the supposedly ‘remote’ Harold Pinter ideal for stripping over five days. Pinter’s contribution to the evolution of British and good-humoured willingness to discuss his own as, in fact, a true collaborator in the high craft of film is also enormous, for example:The Go Between, work was at times surprising. When asked about the theatre, and he succeeded. Burton’s film may even THE DOCUMENTARY - The Servant, Accident, The Pumpkin Eater, The French significance of the pauses and silences for which he is so famous, he answered: “I think the terms ‘silence’ have changed a few critical minds.” Lieutenant’s Woman, The Comfort of Strangers and, A GOOSEBERRY FOOL and ‘pause’ have been taken much too far. In fact, when The Daily Telegraph Outspoken, infuriating and very funny, the just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Kenneth Branagh’s 2007 version of Sleuth. Pinter’s furious I act myself in my own plays (which I have occasionally), Irish writer Oliver Goldmith both outraged and I’ve cut half of them actually.” delighted 18th Century London’s literary scene. Holly Gilbert Constance Neville poems about both Gulf Wars won the Wilfred Simon Butteriss Diggory Owen prize in 2004. And in later life his increased Jane Glover “There is something rather wonderful about Today he is remembered almost solely for his Roy Marsden Sir Charles Marlow boisterous comedy, She Stoops to Conquer which political activism has served as a point of leadership watching the two septuagenerians in discussion, exploded onto the sedate London stage and for those opposed to illegal wars and international but this is more than just two old codgers duplicitousness. changed the face of English Comedy forever. reminiscing: it becomes a potted history of post- Actor, Writer and Presenter Simon Butteriss Although he made a full recovery from the directed by Harry Burton produced discovers how Goldsmith’s writing was shaped and oesophageal cancer diagnosed a few years earlier, by Robert Fox Limited & Channel war British theatre and a fascinating examination coloured by truly extraordinary events in his life in 2005 Pinter felt he had no longer the energy of the role of politics in the arts.” and presents a sympathetic portrait of the man as to direct plays. As a young actor I had learned and Four running time: 57’ DigiBeta Time Out well as a lively analysis of his work in a documentary grown from being directed by him, and so I invited that provides the perfect counterpart to Tony PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 PoorhouseJanuary - March 2008 international 8 jazz baroness rimbault&kuperberg9 RODiNOR APASSION FOR THEHUMAN BODY Auguste Rodin was born on November 12th his friends and his one-time secretary Rainer Maria 1840 in Paris and is undoubtedly the most famous Rilke. sculptor of the impressionist era and the father of Rodin’s private life was coloured by his passion modern sculpture. He made three futile attempts to for fellow sculpture Camille Claudel, tragically be accepted into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, learned abandoned by Rodin, and his life-long relationship his craft largely in workshops, was to some extent with his favourite model Rose Beuret which he self-thought and received recognition only late in his eventually was to marry. life. Major influences were the sculptures decorating Rodin’s most important contribution to the great Gothic cathedrals in France and a trip sculpture was that he vitalized the surface by to Italy in 1875 were Michelangelo and Donatello fusing ‘the audacity of light’ with the ‘modesty of made a lasting impression on him. the shadow’, because in his own words “the best Dominik Rimbault’s film approaches the artist sculptures are colourists like the best painters”. produced and directed by Dominik through his own writings and discusses his major Under Rodin’s hands even a torso became an works such as L’homme qui marche, Les Bourgeois de autonomous work of art. Rimbault running time: 52’ Shot in Calais, La porte de l’enfer, Le penseur, Le baiser, Balzac Various exhibitions in 2007 and 2008 will make HD and many others. There is also valuable testimony by this portrait a welcome arts title worldwide.

JAZZ BARONESS ACRiMETHAT New York, 1956. Thelonious Monk sits at the piano CHANGED in a secret smoke filled basement club, premiering a THE new tune. He starts, and then stops. Everyone waits. WORLD He clears his throat and starts again. To everyone’s In July 1950 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both astonishment, Monk, a man of few words, turns to the American citizens, were arrested by the FBI for directed by Clara and Robert delivering vital information on the US nuclear Kuperberg produced by Wichita audience: “This one’s for the Baroness Pannonica, a programme to the Soviet Union. They both insisted Films running time: 52’ 16:9 DigiBeta that they were innocent, went on trial, were very dear friend of mine, a very special lady.” condemned and executed on June 19th 1953. The American public was split in half over the case and Pannonica, sitting at her usual corner table, Nica took on jazz musicians in place of family. world opinion was outraged. The Rosenbergs left smiles enigmatically as the new tune floats across She used her inheritance as well as her dedication two children, Robert and Michael Rosenberg, aged the keys. But who was the Baroness? And why, and energy to support them. Inherent in this 6 and 10. Ethel’s brother David was arrested in June seventeen years after her death, is she still a legend passionate loyalty was a powerful indignation about More than either a romance or a historical 1950 and got a 15 year sentence. His wife Ruth in the Jazz World? the racism these black musicians encountered on a documentary, this film will be a unique and Greenglass got off completely unscathed. When the Pannonica Rothschild was born in 1913. Her daily basis. And her response to this perhaps owed ambitious genre-defying odyssey. FBI and the KGB archives were finally declassified grandfather was the first Jewish MP. The Balfour something to her own experiences of anti-Semitism, Director Hannah Rothschild makes arts in the late 90s, the Kuperbergs discovered a story declaration, leading to the creation of the state to the loss of family members during the Holocaust documentaries for series including Relative Values, of dramatic dimensions, quite like ancient Greek of Israel, was written to her uncle. On her family and to her involvement in the War. Omnibus and Arena as well as for museums and tragedy. There is proof beyond doubt that Julius estate in Tring exotic creatures including emus Nica was the inspiration for some of the most institutions. Her films have been broadcast on major and Ethel Rosenberg were spies and were guilty of and giant tortoises populated the park. Her uncle critically acclaimed bebop tunes – Art Blakey’s and public networks in Europe, Australia, America and helping the Soviet Union from lagging behind in the Walter drove a trap pulled by four Zebras. Horace Silver’s Nica’s Dream, Nica’s Tempo by the Asia. She produced the Scarlet Pimpernel for the nuclear race probably by years. They committed But Nica’s childhood was not quite the idyll it Jazz Messengers, and Monk’s Bolivar Blues to name BBC. Working Title, The BBC and Ridley Scott have what Edgar J. Hoover dubbed the ‘Crime of the might sound. There was a propensity for depression but a few – and up until her death in 1988, Nica optioned her original screenplays. In 2008, she will Century’. Why then did they not accept the deal in the family and the lives of Nica and her three would be sitting at the best table in any number of present two features for Radio 4. London Editor of offered by the prosecution and save the future siblings were blighted when their father committed clubs, pouring whisky out of a flask disguised as a Vanity Fair in the 1990’s, her features appear in W, of their children? And why did David Greenglass suicide. Bible. Vanity Fair, The Telegraph, The Times, The New York Times, negotiate a deal with the US justice that delivered As a young woman Nica attended a finishing She died alone in a hospital room in 1988. All The Spectator, British and American Vogue. She lectures his own sister to the electric chair? school in Paris and studied art and aviation; she met that remains are the songs and rare footage. on art the Getty, the Royal Academy and the The Kuperbergs are teaming up with the her husband, Baron de Koenigswarter, through their Nica’s life spanned much of the 20th century, University of the Arts and is a regular interviewer investigative journalist Sam Roberts of the New mutual love of flying. The couple had five children. her experiences of passion, motherhood, freedom at the Hay Festival and for BBC Arts Department in York Times who found David Greenglass even with Her life should have been set, but the war broke and loss directly reflecting the great issues of the film and radio. out. News reached the family that their relations times: anti-Semitism; the Holocaust; desegregation his new identity and persuaded him after 14 years were being interned in camps. Nica and her husband in America; the women’s movement. Nica’s story of discussions to tell the whole story. Ex FBI agent joined the Free French in Africa determined to takes place in the context of the biggest artistic directed by Hannah Rothschild Ray Batvini will comment on the archive material fight for the Resistance. There, she flew Lancaster movement of the century: Modernism; the settings produced by Clandestine Films for now available and retell the dramatic moment when he revealed their true identity to the Rosenberg bombers and drove ambulances. It was there she range from the English countryside to old Europe BBC Arena running time: 90’ heard her first Charlie Parker record. Normal life to Africa to New York. children. would never be resumed. After the war, Nica left This 90 minute documentary will explore the life her family for New York in search of a new life. of one of the greatest patrons of jazz and one of its When Charlie Parker died in Nica’s hotel suite most colourful characters. Interviews with elusive in March 1955, it caused such a scandal that she was musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Chico Hamilton vilified in the tabloid press and stoned in the streets and Roy Haynes will be intercut with extraordinary by racists. She had become an embarrassment to archive footage and family films. The soundtrack will her estranged husband who won custody of their feature 21 songs written and recorded for Nica by children. including Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver and Barry Harris.

PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 PoorhouseJanuary - March 2008 international 8 jazz baroness rimbault&kuperberg9 RODiNOR APASSION FOR THEHUMAN BODY Auguste Rodin was born on November 12th his friends and his one-time secretary Rainer Maria 1840 in Paris and is undoubtedly the most famous Rilke. sculptor of the impressionist era and the father of Rodin’s private life was coloured by his passion modern sculpture. He made three futile attempts to for fellow sculpture Camille Claudel, tragically be accepted into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, learned abandoned by Rodin, and his life-long relationship his craft largely in workshops, was to some extent with his favourite model Rose Beuret which he self-thought and received recognition only late in his eventually was to marry. life. Major influences were the sculptures decorating Rodin’s most important contribution to the great Gothic cathedrals in France and a trip sculpture was that he vitalized the surface by to Italy in 1875 were Michelangelo and Donatello fusing ‘the audacity of light’ with the ‘modesty of made a lasting impression on him. the shadow’, because in his own words “the best Dominik Rimbault’s film approaches the artist sculptures are colourists like the best painters”. produced and directed by Dominik through his own writings and discusses his major Under Rodin’s hands even a torso became an works such as L’homme qui marche, Les Bourgeois de autonomous work of art. Rimbault running time: 52’ Shot in Calais, La porte de l’enfer, Le penseur, Le baiser, Balzac Various exhibitions in 2007 and 2008 will make HD and many others. There is also valuable testimony by this portrait a welcome arts title worldwide.

JAZZ BARONESS ACRiMETHAT New York, 1956. Thelonious Monk sits at the piano CHANGED in a secret smoke filled basement club, premiering a THE new tune. He starts, and then stops. Everyone waits. WORLD He clears his throat and starts again. To everyone’s In July 1950 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both astonishment, Monk, a man of few words, turns to the American citizens, were arrested by the FBI for directed by Clara and Robert delivering vital information on the US nuclear Kuperberg produced by Wichita audience: “This one’s for the Baroness Pannonica, a programme to the Soviet Union. They both insisted Films running time: 52’ 16:9 DigiBeta that they were innocent, went on trial, were very dear friend of mine, a very special lady.” condemned and executed on June 19th 1953. The American public was split in half over the case and Pannonica, sitting at her usual corner table, Nica took on jazz musicians in place of family. world opinion was outraged. The Rosenbergs left smiles enigmatically as the new tune floats across She used her inheritance as well as her dedication two children, Robert and Michael Rosenberg, aged the keys. But who was the Baroness? And why, and energy to support them. Inherent in this 6 and 10. Ethel’s brother David was arrested in June seventeen years after her death, is she still a legend passionate loyalty was a powerful indignation about More than either a romance or a historical 1950 and got a 15 year sentence. His wife Ruth in the Jazz World? the racism these black musicians encountered on a documentary, this film will be a unique and Greenglass got off completely unscathed. When the Pannonica Rothschild was born in 1913. Her daily basis. And her response to this perhaps owed ambitious genre-defying odyssey. FBI and the KGB archives were finally declassified grandfather was the first Jewish MP. The Balfour something to her own experiences of anti-Semitism, Director Hannah Rothschild makes arts in the late 90s, the Kuperbergs discovered a story declaration, leading to the creation of the state to the loss of family members during the Holocaust documentaries for series including Relative Values, of dramatic dimensions, quite like ancient Greek of Israel, was written to her uncle. On her family and to her involvement in the War. Omnibus and Arena as well as for museums and tragedy. There is proof beyond doubt that Julius estate in Tring exotic creatures including emus Nica was the inspiration for some of the most institutions. Her films have been broadcast on major and Ethel Rosenberg were spies and were guilty of and giant tortoises populated the park. Her uncle critically acclaimed bebop tunes – Art Blakey’s and public networks in Europe, Australia, America and helping the Soviet Union from lagging behind in the Walter drove a trap pulled by four Zebras. Horace Silver’s Nica’s Dream, Nica’s Tempo by the Asia. She produced the Scarlet Pimpernel for the nuclear race probably by years. They committed But Nica’s childhood was not quite the idyll it Jazz Messengers, and Monk’s Bolivar Blues to name BBC. Working Title, The BBC and Ridley Scott have what Edgar J. Hoover dubbed the ‘Crime of the might sound. There was a propensity for depression but a few – and up until her death in 1988, Nica optioned her original screenplays. In 2008, she will Century’. Why then did they not accept the deal in the family and the lives of Nica and her three would be sitting at the best table in any number of present two features for Radio 4. London Editor of offered by the prosecution and save the future siblings were blighted when their father committed clubs, pouring whisky out of a flask disguised as a Vanity Fair in the 1990’s, her features appear in W, of their children? And why did David Greenglass suicide. Bible. Vanity Fair, The Telegraph, The Times, The New York Times, negotiate a deal with the US justice that delivered As a young woman Nica attended a finishing She died alone in a hospital room in 1988. All The Spectator, British and American Vogue. She lectures his own sister to the electric chair? school in Paris and studied art and aviation; she met that remains are the songs and rare footage. on art the Getty, the Royal Academy and the The Kuperbergs are teaming up with the her husband, Baron de Koenigswarter, through their Nica’s life spanned much of the 20th century, University of the Arts and is a regular interviewer investigative journalist Sam Roberts of the New mutual love of flying. The couple had five children. her experiences of passion, motherhood, freedom at the Hay Festival and for BBC Arts Department in York Times who found David Greenglass even with Her life should have been set, but the war broke and loss directly reflecting the great issues of the film and radio. out. News reached the family that their relations times: anti-Semitism; the Holocaust; desegregation his new identity and persuaded him after 14 years were being interned in camps. Nica and her husband in America; the women’s movement. Nica’s story of discussions to tell the whole story. Ex FBI agent joined the Free French in Africa determined to takes place in the context of the biggest artistic directed by Hannah Rothschild Ray Batvini will comment on the archive material fight for the Resistance. There, she flew Lancaster movement of the century: Modernism; the settings produced by Clandestine Films for now available and retell the dramatic moment when he revealed their true identity to the Rosenberg bombers and drove ambulances. It was there she range from the English countryside to old Europe BBC Arena running time: 90’ heard her first Charlie Parker record. Normal life to Africa to New York. children. would never be resumed. After the war, Nica left This 90 minute documentary will explore the life her family for New York in search of a new life. of one of the greatest patrons of jazz and one of its When Charlie Parker died in Nica’s hotel suite most colourful characters. Interviews with elusive in March 1955, it caused such a scandal that she was musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Chico Hamilton vilified in the tabloid press and stoned in the streets and Roy Haynes will be intercut with extraordinary by racists. She had become an embarrassment to archive footage and family films. The soundtrack will her estranged husband who won custody of their feature 21 songs written and recorded for Nica by children. including Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver and Barry Harris.

PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 PoorhouseJanuary - March 2008 international 10angelin preljocaj ANGELiN PRELJOCAJ

Angelin Preljocaj, arguably the most successful French choreographer of our times, says of his art that ‘Dance for me is not an ephemeral art, but rather an art that in a way is careless of its memory; to give it memory is to give it a written language. The precision and conciseness of the Benesh system have been a great encouragement to me with my idea of preserving dance works, by transcribing them, normal practice in the ballet world.’ Ballet companies throughout the world have taken up Preljocaj’s choreographies, including La Scala, the Netherlands Dance Theatre and the Ballet of São Paulo. In 2006 Preljocaj also created the dances for Julie Taymor’s production of the Opera Grendel in Los Angeles. LE SONGE DE MEDEE MC 14/22 CECi EST les Etoiles, les Premiers Danseurs MON CORPS and le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra les Etoiles, les Premiers Danseurs National de Paris choreography and le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra Angelin Preljocaj music: Mauro National de Paris choreography Lanza orchestra: Ensemble Court Angelin Preljocaj sound scape: Tedd Circuit sets: Thierry Leproust Zahmal sets & costumes: Daniel costumes: Gilles Rosier lighting Jasiak lighting design: Patrick Riou design: Patrick Riou running time: 40’ running time: 55’ The saga of the Argonauts, comes from Greek two children and poisoned not only Creusa but also mythology and has fascinated artists of every period, her father as he came to her rescue. The inspiration for this ballet, created for choreographers included. Jean-Georges Noverre Angelin Preljocaj is interested not only in ancient Preljocaj’s own company in 2001, comes from the made use of this subject matter as early as 1763, myth but also in the tragic cases you hear about in Bible, chapter 14, verse 22 of the Gospel according whilst Martha Graham, Birgit Cullberg and John the news every day. Le Songe de Médée allows to St. Mark runs: ‘And as they were eating, Jesus took Neumeier have all done so more recently. The him to delve into a woman’s soul, to seek out bread and blessed it; he broke it and gave to them, Argonauts were Greek heroes led by Jason who set deeply-buried longings and plumb the depths of saying, “Take, eat: this is my body.”’ out to seize the famous Golden Fleece, the pelt of a Medea’s unconscious beyond the boundaries of the Ceci est mon corps is taken quite literally by golden ram, from Aetes, the ruler of Colchis. Medea, myth: ‘It is possible that there exists a “Medea complex” the choreographer and yet also inspires him to Aetes’ daughter, fell in love with the handsome buried in each of us, given our feeling that the roles of associative gestures and poses that extend far young man and helped him to come through all mother and mistress are incompatible, that motherhood beyond the Biblical scene. Preljocaj continues: ‘The the trials set him by the king, by means of her undermines the identity as an object of desire, and thus universe is grounded much more on the human body magic powers. When Aetes still did not surrender creating an unconscious desire to do away with the than on matter. This allows me to place my trust in the fleece, Jason decided to steal it with Medea’s children ...’ dance, this crossroads between instinct and intelligence, help, promising to marry her in exchange. Back in the animal and the being capable of thought, the Greece, Medea bore Jason two sons. Jason, however, television director Denis Caïozzi spiritual and the carnal.’ Ceci est mon corps is a had meanwhile fallen in love - somewhat politically produced by Telmondis in hymn to the male body, although it is also an motivated - with Creusa, the daughter of the King invocation of the Last Supper, of the glorification of of Corinth and he then rejected Medea. Medea Association with France 2 & Mezzo strength and the condemnation of force. planned a bloody vengeance: she murdered their DigiBeta 16:9 PoorhouseinternationalNewsletter No14 an lgm production11 LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS

Music Frédéric Chopin Choreography & Stage Director John Neumeier Sets & Costumes Jürgen Rose Light Rolf Warter

Les Etoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Musical Director Michael Schmidtsdorff Pianos Emmanuel Strosser, Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter

Running Time: 165’ LADAME directed by Thomas Grimm AUX produced by LGM running time: 165’ CAMELiAS shot in HDTV with 5.1 Surround - JOHN NEUMEiER Sound

Marguerite Gautier, a renowned Parisian courtesan falls some have strayed from their paths, drowning the Dame in the meanders of the literary text and its in love with Armand Duval. The latter’s father forces historical references. It was doubtless essential to the young woman to break with his son so as not to break with the narrative in order to shed light on the inner dialogue alone. Hence Rosalia Chladek’s compromise the family honour and future. Marguerite choice in her solo piece Un Destin amoureux romantique, and that too of Frederick Ashton in pretends to have fallen out of love in order to distance Marguerite et Armand, using a series of flashback memories inspired by Alain Resnais’ filmL’année herself from Armand and returns to her life of loose dernière à Marienbad. morals. However, stricken by tuberculosis, she dies at When, in 1978, John Neumeier proposed his version of La Dame aux camellias for the Stuttgart the age of 23. Her lover discovers too late in her private Ballet with Marcia Haydée in the main role, he returned to Dumans fils’ original text to reveal journal all the love she bore for him. its romantic and tragic essence. He underlines the parallel between the respective destinies of Written in 1848 – the year of the revolution Even so, at the same time, theatre and opera Marguerite and Armand and Manon Lescaut and – La Dame aux Camélias – which became a myth had not hesitated to bring this drama to the stage Des Grieux, the heroes of the novel by Abbé in its own time, has been adapted countless times with great psychological realism. After slipping Prévost. This link, present in the novel – which for theatre, opera and cinema. After adopting the through the net of the censor, the play by Dumas had never been suggested in an artistic creation identity of Marie Duplessis, a courtesan – the tragic fils, first performed in 1852, was a triumph, as was – adds another level of interpretation where the youthful love of Alexandre Dumas fils – the heroine Verdi’s opera two years later. When Maurice Béjart ghosts of Manon and Des Grieux subtly foreshadow of the novel, Marguerite Gautier, inaugurated staged La Traviata in 1973, he too took a committed the future destiny of Marguerite and Armand. a long artistic career thanks to a multitude of position, portraying the heroine as a feminist figure, By introducing this drama within a drama, John renowned performers. Names like Sarah Bernhardt, part Antigone part Marianne. Nevertheless, 20th Neumeier provides his ballet with its own novelistic unforgettable in Dumas fils’ play of the same century choreographers have not sought to make tools and seems to resolve the questions posed name, Maria Callas in Verdi’s La Traviata, a brilliant La Dame aux camellias into a social commentary but by his predecessors. In his Dame aux camélias transposition of the theatrical work, or Greta rather to suggest the various characters’ subjective dance is both story and suggestion, a dive into Garbo in her immortal performance of George developments. What resources does dance possess the real world and an inner voyage through time Cukor’s 1936 film. to tell a love story? Faced by this crucial question, and space. A century and a half after her literary Another host of choreographers have been with which the dance world has wrestled for aeons, birth, Marguerite Gautier finally won her dance inspired by the character, yet strangely enough their credentials? own Dames aux Camélias did not really emerge until the second half of the 20th century. The rare efforts of the 1850s, by Antonio Coppini or Filippo Termanini, went unheeded by the great masters like Coralli, Perrot and Saint-Léon who, no doubt, thought it out of the question to introduce a narrative of such realism into a ballet. How could a woman of loose morals who sacrifices her love on the altar of bourgeois propriety ever usurp the Wilis, Sylphids and other supernatural beings or exotic creatures that still peopled theatre wings during those years of waning Romanticism? It was out of the question. For beyond it’s apparent luxury, did not Marguerite Gautier’s lifestyle recall all too cruelly the miserable fate of so many ballerinas, condemned to a dual existence of elf and tart? No doubt this flimsy borderline between simple reality and the world of the footlights explains in part why ballet could not draw its inspiration from current events.

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