MUSIKKONZEPT & JOHN MALKOVICH THE INFERNAL COMEDY, CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KILLER TIME 20:30 “The Infernal Comedy” is a stage play for and arias will represent emotional SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 a baroque orchestra, two sopranos and expressions of joy, hatred, love, grief, MAKARIOS III AMPHITHEATRE one actor. It is based on the real-life story desire and admiration in connection of STROVOLOS of Jack Unterweger, a convicted Jack’s various relationships, including murderer, acclaimed poet, celebrated solo-pieces like “La scena di Berenice” author and journalist and notorious and other pieces by Vivaldi, Handel, womanizer, who was gradually Gluck, Haydn and Mozart, which will TICKETS: €15 / €10 suspected of killing a growing number of enhance the emotional background of prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and our story. Los Angeles, later vanished from Vienna, A table with a glass of water and some fled into the U.S, got arrested in Miami, new copies of a voluminous paperback transferred to Austria, accused and finally is all you see on the stage, while the committed suicide after being convicted orchestra plays the dramatic journey to of homicide in eleven cases. “hell”, enhanced by the “L`enfer” of C.W. The first scene shows the actor (Jack) Gluck`s “Don Juan”. After the music has reading from his brand new novel, from ceased, a handsome, middle-age man where he drifts into his memories, wearing a white suit and dark sunglasses connected to the melodramatic music of enters the stage and welcomes the Christoph Willibald von Gluck`s Don Juan. public with a brief, charming speech, to Between his monologues, several scenes the primary reading of his latest and last will be performed between the actor novel titled: “The infernal comedy”. (Jack) and one of the two sopranos. Following the doctrine of the affections of baroque music, each of these scenes 18 He especially acknowledges the beautiful women in wonderful evening His big-screen debut would be as the presence of attractive ladies, because dresses, who make their appearance on blind lodger in Places in the Heart (1984), the whole book may only have been both sides of the stage and receive a which earned him an Academy Award written to justify his lost soul to women. warm applause. Jack suddenly cuts off Nomination for best supporting actor. Women have always been his only the ovations with a harsh gesture, quite Other films would follow, including determination, his world, his paradise, different from his charming attitude so The Killing Fields (1984) and The Glass his desolation and fate. “Maybe”, he says far. Somehow baffled the ladies leave the Menagerie (1987), but he reached with an ironic smile, “this had to do with stage, as Jack, his captivating self again, stardom as Vicomte de Valmont in my name Jack, Johann or Hans in German announces, that those two wonderful Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Playing that -in Spanish and Italian- translates women will represent several women of alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Glenn into Juan or Giovanni. It may seem such a his life and therefore help to underline Close in a costume drama helped raise common name, John, but if you wear this the impact of the reading... his standing in the industry. He would be name, women will love and hate you, call cast as the psychotic political assassin you a liar and a pervert, but never leave JOHN MALKOVICH in Clint Eastwood`s In the Line of Fire you alone”. (1993), for which he would be John Malkovich is one of the most Before Jack sits down to start the reading, nominated for both an Academy important actors of today`s cinema. he highlights the fact that he wrote this Award and a Golden Globe. He played in more than 70 films and is novel after his death and that, although Malkovich was born on December 9, also a director, producer and fashion he had been a convicted murderer and 1953 in Benton Illinois. He is of Croatian designer with his label Technobohemian. acclaimed author of several plays and heritage and was one of five children. With a series of roles requiring him to be novels, he had never before written a After graduating high school, he attended evil, Malkovich made the term “icy calm” single truthful word. As far as he remem- Eastern Illinois University, then transferred his trademark. bers, the smallest amount of honesty to Illinois State University, where he In 1976, John Malkovich joined Chicago`s would have banned him behind bars for majored in theater. In 1976, Malkovich left Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by the rest of his life. Therefore the following school to join the Steppenwolf Theatre in his friend Gary Sinise. After that, it would evening will finally reveal his real qualities Chicago, where he stayed for the next six take seven years before Malkovich would as writer and performer for the very first years, amassing some 50-odd plays to his make an appearance in New York and time. acting and directing resumé. Malkovich win an Obie in Sam Shepard`s play “True “Yes and before I forget”, he goes on, “I is married with director Nicoletta Peyran West”. In 1984, Malkovich appeared in will have the pleasure to introduce you to and they have two children. Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in the two wonderful ladies, disposed to sing a “Death of a Salesman”, which would earn few nice old fashioned pieces of music, him an Emmy the following year, when while I will have to clear my throat”. “Death of a Salesman” was adapted for He briefly points at the two incredibly television. ORGANISER: UNDER THE MEGA SPONSORS: SUPPORTERS: AUSPICES OF: SPONSOR: MEDIA SPONSORS: Net proceeds will be donated to the Cyprus Red Cross Youth Section. 19.