FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS September 13, 1983 CONTACT: Ellen Lampert Susan Spier THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH (212) 636-4123 TO OPEN NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL AT BAM

The Academy of Music's NEXT WAVE Festival will open with the American premiere of THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH by and Rob Malasch in the BAM Opera House, October 4-16, 1983.

The new, fully staged production of THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH produced by BAM and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, includes music composed by Philip Glass, a new book by Robert Coe, and movement constructed by David Gordon. Mr. Glass' score will be performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble, under the direction of Michael Riesman, with music mix by Kurt Munkacsi. Set and costumes are designed by Santo Loquasto, with lighting by Jennifer Tipton, and projections by Wendall K. Harrington/Luminous! Productions, Inc. (A list of cast members is attached.)

THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH is a theatrical exploration·of the life and work of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose pioneering sequential photographic studies of human and animal locomotion made him known as "the father of the motion picture." The production in three sections is comprised of a play, a concert with visuals, and a dance work, and focuses on a turning point in Muybridge's life: his self-confessed crime of passion against his wife's lover, ~ho had fathered the boy he assumed was his own son, and his subsequent acquittal in court.

Philip Glass composes music for opera, film, theater, dance, chorus, and for his own ensemble. Among his works are the operas EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, his celebrated collaboration with stage director/designer Robert Wilson, and SATYAGRAHA, presented at BAM in 1981; scores for the films NORTH STAR: MARK DI SUVERO and KOYAANISQATSI; music for numerous Mabou Mines theater productions; and DANCE, a collaboration with choreographer Lucinda Childs and visual artist Sol LeWitt, commissioned by and premiered at BAM in 1979.

JoAnne Akalaitis is a founding member of Mabou Mines, and since 1970 has worked both as a director and as an actress with the company. Her productions for the company of CASCANDO, DRESSED LIKE AN EGG, SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, and DEAD END KIDS, A HISTORY OF NUCLEAR POWER, have won Obie Awards. Her production of REQUEST CONCERT at the Women's Interart Center won a Drama Desk Award in 1981.

Robert Coe was editor, dramaturg, and co-author of a number of monologues and texts to music for Laurie Anderson's UNITED STATES: PARTS I-IV, which premiered at BAM in February 1983. THE PHOTOGRAPHER/ FAR FROM THE TRUTH is his second work for the theater; an earlier play, WAR BABIES, will be developed in workshop at the Mark Taper Theater Lab in Los Angeles later this year. He has also written on theater, dance, and performance for the Village Voice, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Soho Weekly News, and other pub 1 icat ionlrooklyn Academy of Music 30 lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11217 212.636.4100 (over) Cable: ACADMUSIC BAm David Gordon has worked in the dance fi~lq for over twenty years. During the 1960's, he danced in the companies of James Waring anq Yvonne ~ainer, and made performance works at the Judson Dance Theater. In the early 1970's he performed with th~ Grand Union. He is now Artistic Director of the David Gordon/ Pick Up Cq. His work was included in the DANCE IN AMERICA broadcast "Beyond the Mainstream" and he i' one of seven artists featured in Michael Blackwood ' s film MAKING DANCES .

In conjunction with THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH there will be two exhibitions: EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, an exhibition. produced by the lnter~a~ional Center of Photography and sponsored by the NEXT WAVE Humanities Progr~ in the BAM VIP Loun$e adjacent to the Opera House lobby before and after performances; and EADWE~ MUYBRIDGE: A SURVEY at the Daniel Wolf Gallery, 30 West 57 Street, New York City, Octpber 5~29. Daniel Wolf Gallery is open Monday through Saturday, !O:OOam to 6 :00pm.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH will be performed Octoper 4-16, Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2 : 00pm and 7~00pm, anq on qpening night, Thursday, October 6, at 7:00pm. Tickets are $20, $15, and $10.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH is part of the NtXT WAVE rroduction and Touring Fund national tour in 1984.

The NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund is supported by ~he National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Hum40ities. the ~ockefeller Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, AT&T, Warne; CommUJ)icationl!i Inc., the New York State Council for the Humanities, Willi Wear Ltd., the Dayton•Hudson Foundation for B. Dalton Bookseller, Dayton's and Target Stores, the CIGNA Cprporation, and the BAM NEXT WAVE Producers Council. Additional funds for the NEXT WAVE Festival are provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Robert Sterl~ng Clark Foundation, Inc., the Emma A. Scheafer Charitable Trust, the Mary Flagler Cary CqAri~abl~ Trust, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, the Tortuga Foundation, Meet the Compos,r, Inc., Philip Morris Incorporated, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. WNYC-FM 94 is the official radio station of the NEXT WAVE Festival.

For further information call the Brooklyn Academy of Music at (2l2) 636-4100.

f! tJ BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 1983 NEWS CONTACT: Ellen Lampert Susan Spier (212) 636-4123

"EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE" INSTALLATION TO ACCOMPANY PERFORMANCES OF "THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH" IN BAM'S NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL, OCTOBER 4-16, 1983

The International Center of Photography, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Academy of Music's NEXT WAVE Humanities Program, will unveil an exhibition entitled EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, inspired by BAM's production of THE PHOTOGRAPHER/ FAR FROM THE TRUTH, October 4-16, 1983. The ICP installation conveys the grand stature and tm·bulent life of the pioneering photographer and inventor of the II . • t II mov~ng p~c ure.

The exhibition, presented in BAM's V.I.P. lounge, has been specifically designed and constructed to enhance audience appreciation of performances by offering an overview of Muybridge's accomplishments. Approximately forty-eight reproductions of selected frames from Muybridge's Human and Animal Locomotion series are dramatically presented within wall-sized grids based on the photographer's own system of visual analysis. A zoetrope containing Muybridge's series of photographs of a horse and rider can be spun to produce the illusion of motion. Greeting visitors to the exhibition is a large mural map marked with the locations Eadweard Muybridge photographed during his extraordinary career. Muybridge's landscapes are featured in a slideshow, which includes his photographs of South, Central, and North America. The installation provides a lyrical complement to THE PHOTOGRAPHER/FAR FROM THE TRUTH.

The NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, AT&T, Warner Communications Inc., The New York Council for the Humanities, Willi Wear Ltd., the Dayton-Hudson Foundation for B. Dalton Bookseller, Dayton's and Target Stores, the CIGNA Corporation, and the BAM NEXT WAVE Producers Council. Additional funds for the NEXT WAVE Festival are provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Inc., the Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, the Tortuga Foundation, Meet the Composer, Inc., Philip Morris Incorporated, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs . WNYC-FM 94 is the official radio station of the NEXT WAVE Festival.

For further information, call the Brooklyn Academy of Music at (212) 636-4100. Brooklyn Academy of Music 30 Lafayette Avl.'nue Brooklyn, New York 11217 212.636.4100 Cable: ACADMUSIC BAm THE PHOTOGRAPHER/ FAR FROM THE TRUTH

The Cast:

Boy Bart Acocella

Eadweard, a photographer Jonathan Bolt

Harry, a drama critic, Flora's lover Nick Flynn

Man Paul Thompson~\-

Eulogist/Prosecutor William Duff-Griffin

Flora, Eadweard's wife, Harry's lover Ellen NcElduff

Mrs. Smith, Flora's friend Elaine Hausman

Lecturer Val~a Setterfield*

Mesmerist Lola Pashalinski

Advocate/Defense Attorney Frank Maraden

Woman/The Statue Wanda Bimson

Woman/The Angel Blondell Cummings

The Photographer Harry Whittaker Shepperd

Strongman Arthur Williams

Mourners, Observers, Photographic Assistants, Susan Eschelbach* Jurists Margaret Hoeffel* Keith Marshall Nina ~1artin*

*Members of the David Gordon/Pick Up Co.