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By John Logan Principal Funders By John Logan PRINCIPAL FUNDERS CORE FUNDERS PREMIER PARTNER WELCOME MAJOR PROJECT PARTNERS Welcome to the New Zealand By all accounts Rothko was sensitivity and his own unique premiere of John Logan’s a difficult man: intense and style the role of Ken. My huge RED, the fourth play in our intensely private, fiercely thanks to them both. 2011 Territories of the Heart intellectual, serious and totally Big thanks too to our stellar season. The subject of this dedicated to his work. He creative team: director Oliver Tony Award-winning play is said, “I am interested only Driver, set and costume MAJOR SUPPORTERS Mark Rothko – one of the in expressing basic human designer John Parker, lighting most important painters of emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, designer Brad Gledhill (who so post World War II modernism. doom, and so on. And the loved the play when he saw In fact one of Rothko’s works fact that people break down it on Broadway, he begged still holds the record for the and cry when confronted me to let him light it for us!); Proud to be NZ’s Most Awarded Official caterers of Auckland highest priced sale at auction with my pictures shows that Winery and Sponsor of Auckland Theatre Company sound designer Claire Cowan Theatre Company of any post World War II I can communicate those and Paul Pachter for his painter — $US72 million. basic human emotions. The Rothko reproductions. people who weep before my MEDIA PARTNERS Mark Rothko was one paintings are having the same So we invite you into Rothko’s of a group of artists, religious experience I had studio – and into one of the loosely labelled Abstract when I painted them”. great minds and talents of Expressionists. Since the 20th century modernism. late nineteenth century Paris Not the easiest character to had been the centre of the recreate on stage then. But Enjoy! Art World, which had been playing difficult artists is not dominated by European strange territory to Michael SUPPORTING PARTNERS currents. But Rothko and his Hurst, one of our finest actors; colleagues (who included he’s already played Charles BKA INTERACTIVE / BDO AUCKLAND / CANON Willem De Kooning and Goldie and Toulouse Lautrec. Colin McColl M.A.C. CoSMETICS / MARKETING IMPACT / WAIWERA WATER Jackson Pollock) put paid Joining Michael onstage in his MAIdmENT THEATRE / THE EDGE / Q THEATRE to that; they were the first Auckland Theatre Company American artists to receive debut is Elliot Christensen- truly international recognition. Yule – who brings a great DIRECTOR’S NOTES By John Logan CAST Rothko – Michael Hurst Ken – Elliot Christensen-Yule “We have Art that we may not it as closely as we could, and Rothko loved music and the perish from Truth” – Goya. John has managed to make play calls for a sound design CREATIVE you feel as if you really are that not only stays true I have worked with Michael Director – Oliver Driver Set & Costume Design – John Parker transported back to the 50s, to the music he loved but Hurst many times throughout hiding in Rothko’s studio, also underscores the story Lighting Design – Brad Gledhill Sound Design – Claire Cowan my career and there was unfolding onstage. nobody else in my mind who eavesdropping on history. Painting Coach and Rothko Reproductions – Paul Pachter Claire Cowan has created could capture Rothko. My You can’t do a play about a soundtrack Rothko would thanks to him for allowing Rothko without seeing his be proud of. PRODUCTION me to bully him into taking on work up on stage and I thank Production Manager – Mark Gosling Technical Manager – Paul Nicoll this role and for working so God for New Zealand artist Thanks also to my Stage Senior Stage Manager – Fern Christie Stage Manager – Gabrielle Rhodes hard with me to create the Paul Pachter, who not only Manager Gabrielle; this is her play you will see tonight. I recreated some of Rothko’s show now and I know it is in Technical Operator – Rochelle Houghton Properties Master – Diana Kovacs saw many young actors while works for us but taught us all the safest of hands. Wardrobe Supervisor – Set Construction – searching for Ken but Elliot Sophie Ham 2 Construct about painting and painters. Finally, my heart felt thanks stood out from his very first Rehearsal Photography – Amber McWilliams ASB Community Trust Emerging Artist This production would not be to Colin McColl for letting audition; there was something what it is if he had not turned me direct this wonderful Apprentice –Jessika Verryt eminently watchable about our rehearsal rooms into an production. It has been an him and luckily he is as hard actual painter's studio. awfully long time since I and fast a worker as both worked for Auckland Theatre Michael and I, which is no RED premiered at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London (3 December 2009). Michael Grandage, Artistic Director Company but it’s good to mean feat I can assure you. Original Broadway Production Produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie P. McClelland, Matthew Byam Shaw, be back. A play stands or falls on its Neal Street Productions, Fox Theatricals, Ruth Hendel/Barbara Whitman, Philip Hagemann/ casting and I could not be Murray Rosenthal and The Donmar Warehouse. happier with my wonderful Oliver Driver little cast. Director AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR HELP WITH THIS PRODUCTION: Linda Tyler, Amber Older, Richard Thomson, Robin Richmond, Corinna Lotz, A World To Win, Richard Jeffery, Cole Jenkins, Working with John Parker International Art Centre, Mark Castle at the French Art Shop, Regina McMenamin at The Four Seasons. for the first time as a director has been an absolute treat. RED is the fourth Auckland Theatre Company production for 2011 and opened on June 2nd. We wanted to take you inside RED is approximately 90 minutes long. Please remember to switch off all mobile phones, pagers and watch alarms. Rothko’s studio, to recreate Auckland Art Gallery full-page ad. Prefer right hand page if possible please). SYNOPSIS 1950s New York. In Brian Brake the dimly-lit sanctum Lens on the World of the artist’s studio, 1 JUNE TO 14 AUGUST abstract expressionist FREE ADMISSION painter Mark Rothko drinks, smokes and works. His project: a series of enormous Auckland Art Gallery red murals to grace Toi o Ta¯maki the walls of a new Open daily 10am–5pm restaurant in the Corner Wellesley and Lorne Streets Seagram Building. www.aucklandartgallery.com Into this carefully controlled environment comes Rothko’s new assistant, Ken, bringing with him Chinese takeaways, his own aspirations, and a new perspective on the changing outside world. Layer by layer the foundations of the paintings – and the relationship – are laid. Rothko’s rants and revelations are punctuated and proved by Ken’s insights. The past and future are brought together in the deepening hues that demonstrate the meaning of tragedy for both men. As Rothko’s contemplations on canvas draw near completion, Ken begins to challenge the painter’s assumptions about his assistant and his art. Reading between the rough lines of colour, much is revealed about the messy art of living. Brian Brake (1927–1988) Monsoon girl From DEVELOPED AND TOURED the series: Monsoon, 1960, India. Gift of BY TE PAPA Mr Raymond Wai-Man Lau, 2001, Te Papa REHEARSALS MARK ROTHKO (1903–1970) By Linda Tyler The name frame, inspecting it and League qualified him to then moving away. Rothko’s become the art teacher at the Mark Rothko paintings were nearly three Central Academy in Brooklyn, metres in height and over two a parochial school attached is synonymous metres wide, engendering in to a synagogue in 1929. His with Abstract the viewer a sense of being teaching career was to sustain suspended in space and him for the next thirty years. Expressionism, immersed in the experience Rothko’s first solo exhibition at of the colour. “I paint large an American art the aptly-named Opportunity pictures because I want to Gallery in New York was also movement of the create a state of intimacy. A in 1929. Two more shows large picture is an immediate followed in the early years of mid twentieth transaction: it takes you into it.” the Great Depression – one century, which Rothko endured financial in New York and the other deftly shifted the hardship for most of his life. in Portland, Oregon and He was the youngest of four these qualified him for work centre of artistic children born in 1903 to Jakob with the Federal Art Project. Rothkovich, a pharmacist, While his marriage to jeweller influence from They are the symbols of taught at the California School Rothko was caustic in and his wife Anna. As eight Edith Sacher around this man’s primitive fears and his criticism of public art Paris to New York, year old Marcus Rothkowitz, time was not a success, his of Fine Arts in San Francisco. institutions. He had been he emigrated from Dvinsk in weekly salary of $23.50 in motivations, no matter which His daughter Kate, was born included in the Whitney just in time for the Russia to Portland, Oregon the easel-painting division of land or what time… And in 1950 and the family moved Annual, an important public Cold War. in 1913. Seven months later the FPA sustained the couple modern psychology finds them back to New York, where he his father died suddenly, financially. persisting still in our dreams, was mocked by the bohemian gallery survey in 1945, and the ensuing poverty our vernacular, and our art, painters who inhabited the but had little respect for Both in America and abroad, Work at the FPA brought meant that Rothko had to for all the changes in outward lofts of Greenwich Village.
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