David Gordon’s dance pieces based on Pirandello’s writings, plays, and themes

A Pick Up Performance Co(s) Production
2012 marks fifty years of David Gordon making work. Mr. Gordon hijacks Joyce SoHo’s theater for a world premiere of an unprecedented extended run to kick off this momentous post-modern anniversary.
Beginning of the End of the Beginning of
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative written/choreographed & directed by David Gordon
generated from Luigi Pirandello’s writings & familiar themes incl:
absurd inconsistencies of what we see
& how we see & questions of identity
w/8 actors & dancers & 2 puppets playing 16 roles
in 2 acts w/no intermission.
the Beginning of the End of the Beginning
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative based on Luigi Pirandello’s 1911 story A CHARACTER’S TRAGEDY
& his 1921 3 act play SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
& his 1923 1 act play THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH
w/8 actors & dancers & 2 puppets playing 16 roles
in 2 acts w/no intermission.
of the Beginning of the End of the
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative
w/behavioral movement & gesture & physical shadowing/partnering
& w/incidental music (possibly by Pirandello peer Giacomo Puccini)
& w/stg flats, chairs, door frames & script pgs
& rolling/”dancing” scenic devices
& light designed by Jennifer Tipton
on 4 separate but adjoining “stages”
w/8 actors & dancers & 2 puppets playing 16 roles
in 2 acts w/no intermission.

 

performance schedule
Previews: Jun 1-3 & 5
Fri & Sat at 7:30pm;
Sun at 2pm;
Tue at 7:30pmPerformances: Jun 6-30
Wed-Sat at 7:30pm;
Sun at 2pm
ticket price
Previews: $15;
Performances: $22
For more details and tickets, see the Joyce Theater website:

The Pirandello Festival – All One-Act Plays at The Players in New York City

Call for Papers for the MLA Conference – Seattle, January 2012

Call for Papers for the MLA Conference – Seattle, January 2012

1. Pirandello and Cinema: Adaptations, Reexaminations, and Representations

Papers reexamining Pirandello’s early interest and participation in film

as well as papers on film adaptations and representations of his stories, novels and dramatic works.

2. Facing/Writing/Thinking/Womanhood. Pirandello’s representation of female characters

Papers that explore Pirandello’s variegated typology of female characters of different socio-economic status

and examine how his works situate themselves in terms of gender relations.

Abstracts of 250 words

Please include a short bio and a sample bibliography as well as the abstract and your contact information.

Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2011

Chosen panelists will be listed as MLA members by April 7 at the latest.

Please send your submissions to:

jana.okeefebazzoni@baruch.cuny.edu