BAM presents Green Porno, a one-woman show with Isabella Rossellini drawing from her beloved Sundance series, Jan 16-25

Green Porno: Live on Stage NY Premiere

Conceived and performed by Isabella Rossellini Written by Isabella Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carrière Staged by Muriel Mayette

BAM Fisher (Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl) Jan 16, 17, 18, 21-25 at 7:30pm Jan 18 & 25 at 2pm Jan 19 at 3pm

Tickets start at $90 There are a limited number of $30 tickets available. See BAM.org for details

Talk: Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini Jan 21, post-show (free for same-day ticket holders) BAM Fisher (Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl)

December 19, 2013/Brooklyn, NY—Art-house luminary Isabella Rossellini reveals the surprisingly kinky and confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in the NY premiere of this one-woman monologue, inspired by the celebrated Sundance Channel series of the same name. Utilizing video footage of day-glo costumes and paper puppets, and text by legendary French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), Rossellini entertains the audience with a panoply of reproductive oddities: the praying mantis that consumes its partner while copulating; the male bee who loses his penis in the act; and the shrimp, whose foreplay involves it shimmying seductively out of its shell. Part nature documentary, part DIY cartoon, this reinvented, deeper take on Green Porno draws from all three installments of the series (including “Seduce Me” and “Mammas”) bringing a cheeky, delightful zoology lesson vividly to life by Rossellini’s singular flair for storytelling.

In conjunction with Green Porno, BAMcinématek presents two special screenings on January 13 with Rossellini in person, including the New York premiere of the restoration of Stromboli, directed by her father, Roberto Rossellini, and starring her mother, Ingrid Bergman; and her breakout film, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

Isabella Rossellini grew up in Paris and Rome, starting her modeling career at 28, when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue and by Bill King for American Vogue. She has since worked with the industry's most distinguished photographers—from Richard Avedon to Steven Meisel. Rossellini made her film debut with a brief appearance as a nun the 1976 film A Matter of Time opposite her mother Ingrid Bergman, followed a few years later with her first starring role in Il Prato (The Meadow). Her American film debut was in Taylor Hackford's White Nights which lead her to her breakout role as tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Turning her eye to film making in 2005, Rossellini wrote the mischievous and witty My Dad is 100 Years Old, a pretend dialogue about the essence of film directed by Guy Maddin. The following year she made her directorial debut with the short, Oh La La and continued in 2008 by co-directing Green Porno with Jody Shapiro. Rossellini has appeared in more than 70 films and television movies/series; most recently starring in Enemy (2013), directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Jean-Claude Carrière has worked as a cartoonist, novelist, actor, and director, but more importantly established himself as one of 's foremost screenwriters. Beginning his film career with director Pierre Étaix, Carrière went on to collaborate with the likes of Milos Forman, Jacques Deray, Jean-Luc Godard, Volker Schlondorff, Philippe de Broca, and . He collaborated with Peter Brook on a nine-hour stage version of the ancient Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata (1987 Next Wave), and a five-hour film version. His professional association with Luis Buñuel proved substantial; his scripts for Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) earned him Academy Award nominations. Still another Oscar nomination came his way for his work on Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Carrière's own directorial career thus far consists of a 1968 short subject and the 1985 feature L'Unique. As an actor, he has appeared in Buñuel's Diary of a Chambermaid and The Milky Way, as well as the 1994 feature Night and the Moment. Also in 1994, Jean-Claude Carrière published his autobiography, The Secret Language of Film.

The actress and director Muriel Mayette was appointed general administrator of the Comédie- Française in August 2006. A former student of Michel Bouquet, Claude Régy, and Bernard Dort, she was a professor at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art between 2000 and 2006. Upon entering the Comédie-Française in 1985 after graduating from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, she was named as the 477th sociétaire in 1988 and has performed numerous roles including under the direction of Antoine Vitez (La Celestina by Rojas, 1989) Claude Régy (No Exit by Sartre, 1990), Jacques Lassalle (The False Servant by Marivaux, 1991; George Dandin by Molière, 1992; Platonov by Chekhov, 2003), Matthias Langhoff (The Dance of Death by Strindberg, 1996; Lenz, Leonce and Lena by Büchner, 2002), Alain Françon (The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, 1998), (The Maids by Genet, 1997), Catherine Hiegel (The Learned Ladies by Molière and The Return by Pinter, 2000), and Claude Stratz ( by Molière, 2001; Caps and Bells by Pirandello, 2005). In 2007—08 at the Comédie-Française and on tour, she acted in The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, directed by Claude Stratz, and The Fables of La Fontaine by Robert Wilson.

She has directed productions including Oh, But Where Is the Head of Victor Hugo? (1990, Théâtre National de l’Odéon), The Childish Lovers by Crommelynck (1993), Pig in a Poke by Feydeau (1998) and The Rain Dancers by Karin Mainwaring (2001, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier), Clitandre by Corneille (1996, Salle Richelieu), The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare (2004, Studio-Théâtre), and Dramuscules by Thomas Bernhard (2005). For the Salle Richelieu, she directed Return to the Desert by Bernard-Marie Koltès (2007), and Homage to Molière (2008). In 2009 she directed The Dispute by Marivaux for the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and Comic Mysteries and Fabulations by (Salle Richelieu, 2010).

In addition to the Comédie-Française, she performed in André Engel’s staging of ; The Inspector General by Gogol, Quartett by Heiner Müller, and Dona Rosita by Garcia Lorca, all directed by Matthias Langhoff, as well as in Mr. Pantalone’s Lesson with Mario Gonzalez, directed by Christophe Patty (on tour in 2006), among others. She is an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters and a Chevalier in the Order of Merit.

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