A new version produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music music composed by book by movement constructed by Philip Glass Robert Coe David ·Gordon directed by JoAnne Akalaitis musical director music mix by Michael Riesman Kurt Munkacsi vocal text for ''A Gentleman's Honor" by David Byrne sets and costume designs by lighting designed by Santo Loquasto Jennifer Tipton projections designed by Wendall K. Harrington Luminous! Productions, Inc. film designed and produced by Ken Kobland sound design by castitlg by Otts Munderloh Soble/La Padura music performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble A BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL PRODUCTION This production is a free adaptation of an idea conceived by Rob Malasch and originally produced by the Holland Festival in 1982. THE PHOIOGRAPHERIFAR FROM THE TRUTH Tour booked by: IPA/INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION ASSOCIATES, INC. ~~1~---- FAR FROM THE TRUTH CAST (In Alphabetical Order) Mrs. Smith, Flora's friend ..... .. .............. .. ....... ... ... ... .. ...... ... .. .. .. Wanda Bimson Eadweard, a photographer .. ..... ...... .......... .. ..... .. .... ... .......... ..... .. .Jonathan Bolt Flora, Eadweard's wife, Harry's lover ... .. .. ............ .. .. ..... .. .... .. .. ... .. .. Cecile Callan The Eulogist/Prosecutor . ... .. ... .. ... .... .. .. ... .. ..... .. .. .... ..... ... .. .. ..... William Duff-Griffin The Schoolgirl .... .... ... ...... ..... .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .... .......... Susan Eschelbach* Harry, a drama critic, Flora's lover .. ......... ... .... ... .. .. .. ... .. .... ...... .. ... ..... Nick Flynn · The Circus Woman .. ... ..... .. ... .. .... .... .. ....... •.. ... .. ... ... .. .... .. ... .. ... Margaret Hoeffel* The Messenger . .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. ... ... ......... ... .. .... .... ... ..... Keith Marshall* The Girl Athlete ..... ......... .. ....... .. ...... ....... .. .. ..... .. .. ........ ..... Nina Martin* The Mesmerist .... .... .. .... .. .. .... .. ... .. ... .. ... ... .. .. .. .. .. .... ... .. .... Lola Pashalinski The Lecturer/The Woman In Water . ..... ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. ... ..... .. .... ....... Valda Setterfield* The Advocate/Defense Attorney .. ............. .. .... .. .. ... ........... ...... .... ..... Rocco Sisto The Moroccan .. ....... .. ... .. -. ....... ... .. .. .. .. ..... ... ... .. .. .... .. Paul Thompson* Observers, Mourners, Jurists . ... .. ... .. ... .. .. .. .............. ... ..... ... ... ...... The Company *Members of the David Gordon/Pick-Up Company THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE Marin Alsop, violin Jon Gibson, flute, soprano saxophone Martin Goldray, keyboards Jack Kripl, flute, piccolo, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone Dora Ohrenstein, soprano, emulator Richard Peck, flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Michael Reisman, keyboards, bass synthesizer Dan Dryden, live sound mix THE PHOTOGRAPHER is available on CBS Records #7 3684 About the Artists Philip Glass composes music for opera, film, achievement in 1981, and a Rockefeller and formance. In the summer of 1982, Mr. Gor­ theater, dance, chorus, and his own ensem­ NEA grant (1982-83) for a collaboration don further pursued his interest in video by ble-. A graduate of Juilliard, Mr. Glass has with Jon Gibson on an opera about Darwin. co-directing and co-editing a half-hour video received numerous commissions and awards, Currently she is the recipient of a Rockefeller tape entitled 10 Minute T.V with Edward including a composer-in-residence grant playwriting grant for residency at the Mark Steinberg. In the spring of 1983, he worked from the Ford Foundation, a Rockefeller Fel­ Taper Forum in Los Angeles. JoAnne Aka­ in collaboration with producer Kathryn lowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship, which laitis has been working in various capacities Esher and Twin Cities Public Television to enabled him to study with Nadia Boulanger in theater most of her life and hopes to con­ create a 30-minute program including in Paris. tinue to do so. dancers from Pick Up Co. and the New His commissions include the opera Dancer Ensemble (Minneapolis, Minne­ Satyagraha (for the City of Rotterdam, Robert Coe was born in Hollywood, Cali­ sota), entitledLimitedPartnership. The pro­ 1980), which premiered in Holland and fornia, and attended Stanford University. gram is scheduled for airing in autumn subsequently was performed at the Brooklyn Mter graduate work in literature at the Uni­ 1983. Academy of Music in 1981 as part of the versity of Buffalo he moved to New York City NEXT WAVE series. A new production of in 1977, where he has written on a range of Santo Loquasto has been acclaimed for his Satygraha was featured in the 1982-83 cultural topics- especially theater, dance, designs for productions on and off Broad­ season of the Stuttgart Opera. and performance-for the Vtllage Voice, the way, including Bent, The Cherry Orchard, Philip Glass' most celebrated collabora­ Soho weekly News, the New York Times, Amen'can Buffalo, That Championship tion was with stage director/designer Robert the New York Times Magazine, and Season, A Comedy ofE"ors, The King of Wilson on the opera Einstein on the Beach, numerous other publications. His first book, Hearts, and The Suicide. He has received which premiered at the Avignon Festival in Dance in Amen'ca, commissioned by the Tony, DramaDesk,JosephMaharam, Obie, 1976 and toured throughout Europe, culmi­ WNET television series, will be published and Outer Critics Circle awards. As a de­ nating in two sold-out performances at the by E. P. Dutton in the fall of 1984. As a per­ signer for dance he has worked for Ameri­ Metropolitan Opera House. Akhnaton, Mr. former, he has danced with choreographers can Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey, and New Glass' third full opera, has been commis­ Jane Comfort, Bill T. Jones, and Garry York City Ballet. Mr. Loquasto's film work sioned by the Stuttgart Opera for a world Reigenborn, and sung with composers Des includes costume designs for Woody Allen's premiere in March 1984. McAnuff and umrie Anderson; as editor and Stardust Memon'es and A Midsummer On October 4, 1982, the film Koyaanis­ dramaturg for Laurie Anderson's United Night's Sex Comedy. He is a graduate of qatsi, with a score by Mr. Glass, premiered States: Parts 1-W, which premiered at BAM King's College andYale Drama School. He at Radio City Music Hall as a New York Film in February 1983, he co-authored anum­ recently designed the New York Shake­ Festival selection. His first film score was ber of monologues and texts to music. The speare Festival production of Richard III, North Star: Mark Di Suvero, and Mr. Glass Photographer/Far From the Truth is his sec­ starrring Kevin Kline, and was the set con­ is the subject of a biographical film by Brit­ ond work for the theater; an earlier play, 'War sultant for Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from ish film-maker Peter Greenaway (The Babies, will be developed in workshop at the the Zoo, starring Estelle Parsons, at the Draughtsman's Contract) which will Mark Taper Theater Lab in Los Angeles later Public Theatre. premiere in the fall of 1983 on British tele­ this year. vtston. Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well Philip Glass is a CBS Masterworks record­ David Gordon has worked in the dance field known to dance and theater audiences alike. ing artist, the first composer to be offered for over 20 years. He danced in the com­ She has lit works in the repertories of most this contract since Aaron Copland. Glass­ panies ofJames Waring and Yvonne Rainer major dance companies, including dances works was his first Masterworks release. The in the 1960's and made performance works choreographed by Jerome Robbins, Mikhail second recording, The Photographer, was re­ during that period at the Judson Dance The­ Baryshnikov, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp, leased in March 1983. Earlier recorded works ater. In the early 1970's he performed regu­ among many others. Her work in the theater include Music in 12 Parts, Music in Similar larly with the Grand Union. He now makes has won her a Joseph Jefferson Award in Motion, and Music with Changing Parts. works for dance companies in the United Chicago, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie, Einstein on the Beach and Dance 1 and 3 States and Europe. He is Artistic Director and a Tony. In 1982 she was honored by will be re-released by CBS Masterworks in of the Pick Up Co., a performance ensem­ Brandeis University, receiving their Creative 1984. ble which includes about half a dozen of the Arts Award Medal in Dance. She teaches same people and additional performers as lighting in the School of Drama at Yale. Joanne Akalaitis is a founding member of needed for a given project. The Pick Up Co. Mabou Mines and since 1970, has worked performs regularly in New York City and has Wendall K. Harrington has created projec­ both as a director and an actress with the toured the United States and Europe. tions for several Broadway shows, most company. Her productions for the company In May 1980, David Gordon's work was notably They're Playing Our Song and My of Cascando, Dressed Like an Egg, Southern included in the Dance in Amenca broad­ One and Only. In addition to her theatri­ Exposure, and Dead End Kids, A History cast Beyond the Mainstream. He is one of cal work, she and her company, Luminous! a/Nuclear Power, have all won Obie awards. seven artists featured in Michael Blackwood's Productions, Inc., produce multi-media Her production of Request Concert at the film Making Dances. In the spring of 1982, projects for industrial clients. Recently, Ms. Women's Interart Center won a