_______8Am _ IBR,~OKL~N ACADEMY OF MUSIC . Opera House , October 9-14 THE GAMES An opera/music-theater collaboration conceived and directed by Meredith Monk and Ping Chong Music by Text by Meredith Monk Ping Chong with Meredith Monk Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons Set and Costume Design by Sound Design by Yoshio Yabara Otts Munderloh Choreography by Meredith Monk, Ping Chong, Gail Turner Audio-visual Design by Casting Ping Chong Soble/LaPadura with Jan Hartley Assistant Director Gail Turner The Games premiered at the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, November 28, 1983. THE GAMES (Erinnerung An Heute) Cast (in order of appearance) Caretakers. ................ Gail Turner* Pablo Vela* Gamemaster . Meredith Monk/Branislav Tomich Game Players . Roger Babb Margaret Gibson Michael Cerveris Heike Falkenberg Myvanwy Jenn Chorus . Robert Een* Naaz Hosseini* Sharon Fogarty Nancy Alfaro Ching Gonzalez Andrea Goodman* Frey Faust Wayne Hankin Ruth Fuglistaller Nurit Tilles *Members of Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble Musical Director . Wayne Hankin Musicians . Wayne Hankin (keyboards, alto rauschpfeiffe, Chinese schawm, 6 hole flute, Flemish bagpipe) Nurit Tilles (keyboards) Ruth Fuglistaller (violin) Naaz Hosseini (violin) Voices on tape . Robert Een, Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini, Kay Hines, Annetta Rosenfeld, Ernst Stotzner Music <D1984 Meredith Monk (ASCAP) "Miss Anabelle Lee" by Clare and Pollack recorded in 1928 by Whispering Jack Smith with the Whispering Orchestra MEREDITH MO K is an internationally ac­ PI G CHONG, author. director. designer, and claimed composer, author, singer director. filmmaker. is Artistic Director ofThe Fiji Theatre choreographer, and filmmaker. A graduate of Company. He is a two-time recipient of a Crea­ Sarah Lawrence College, Ms. Monk has created tive Artist Public Service Fellowship. an Obie more than fifty music/theater/dance and film Award winner, a two-time National Endowment works since 1964. She has received numerous for The Arts Fellow. and most recently. a Gug­ awards ineluding two Guggenheim Fellowships, genheim Fellowship recipient. a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, two Obies. two In 1972. Mr. Chong founded The Fiji Theatre Villager Awards (the most recent for outstanding Company. which is dedicated to new concepts in compo er for Turtle Dreams) and six ASCAP theatre. the synthesis of live performance with me­ Awards for musical composition. Dolmen Music dia. and the exploration of new narrative ideas. (on ECM/Warner Brothers) was honored with the His work has been presented extensively through­ German Critics prize for the best record of 1981. out the United States at such venues as the Walk­ Her film, Ellis Island, won prizes at the Atlanta er Arts Center, the Kennedy Center for the and San Francisco Film Festival and was shown Performing Arts. the Solomon R. Guggenheim nationally by PBS in February 1983. Her video Museum, UCLA, and LaMama ETC. In Europe collaborations with Ping Chong were recently his work has been presented at the Festival D'Au­ awarded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting tomne. the Holland Festival. the World Theatre First Prize for Performance Programming (to Festival at Nancy. and elsewhere. KTCA-Minneapolis) for Paris and the Grand Prize Ping Chong recently directed two television spe­ of the First "Video Culture Canada" Festival in cials in collaboration with Meredith Monk: Paris Toronto in 1983 for Turtle Dreams (waltz). for KCTA-TV. Minneapolis. and Tur/le Dreams In 1968 Ms. Monk founded The House, a com­ for WGBH Boston. Mr. Chong will direct another pany dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach television special, based on Fritz Lange's film M. to performance. She formed Meredith Monk and to be produced by KCTA-TV and to be aired na­ Vocal Ensemble in 1978 to perform her unique vo­ tionally as part of a series on PBS. In the winter cal compositions. Ms. Monk and her companies of 1985. Ping Chong and The Fiji Theatre Com­ have toured extensively across the U.S. and the pany will have an extended season at LaMama world. Ms. Monk has recorded five albums of her ETC with the presentation of Nosfera/ll and a vocal music. The latest is Turtle Dreams. released revival of Nuil Blallche. He has also been com­ by ECM/ Warner Brothers in September 1983. missioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art To celebrate the occasion of her 20th anniver­ in Chicago to crea!e a new work for their anniver­ sary as a driving forcc in the performing arts. a sary celebration in the winter of 1985. year-long retrospective is planned in 1984-1985. Beginning with the New York premiere of The Games at BAM. the celebration will include Ms. Monk's debut concert at Carnegie Hall on Febru­ ary 7. 1985: a film/video retrospective at the Whit­ ney Museum of American Art in the Spring of 1985 and the revival of her Obie-Award winning opera. Q/ll/IT\'. at LaMama in May 1985. In addition, Ms. Monk will perform with her Vocal Ensemble in national and international tours. THE GAMES PRODUCTION STAFF Company Manager . Ellen Dennis Technical Director, NEXT WAVE Festival . Karl Stiegelbauer Production Stage Manager . Tony Giovanetti Stage Manager . Robert Brenner Assistant Stage Manager . Cathy S. White Assistant Set Designer . Alexander Koziara Assistant Costume Designer . Gioia Raspe Assistant to the Lighting Designer . Rachel Budin Assistant to Mr. Munderloh . Kurt Fischer Projection Consultant . Sal Mazzei Production Sound Man . David Gotwald Wig and Makeup Supervisor . Bruce Geller Production Assistant ' . Patricia Spanedda Production Coordinator for The House Foundation for the Arts and The Fiji Theatre Company . Barbara Dufty The House Foundation for the Arts Interns . Shauna Dempsey Monik Leger Legal counsel . Ron Feiner, Esq. Colton, Weissberg, Hartnick, Yamin and Sheresky Scenery constructed by . Stiegelbauer Associates, Inc. Costumes constructed by . Schneeman Studio Ms. Monk's costume constructed by . Annamarie Hollander Wigs by . Bruce Geller Associates Windsurfing boots by . Oke-Spor Clock constructed by . Kit Grover Sound equipment by . Masque Sound and Recording Corp. Lighting equipment by . Vanco,Inc. Projection equipment by . 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