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IRINA BROOK
Nationality: USA
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Irina Brook's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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below is a list of Irina Brook's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
La Vie Materielle Peer Gynt Shakespeares Sister (or La Vie Materielle) Waiting For the DreamLa Vie Materielle
Synopsis:
Inspired by Marguerite Duras's collection of essays on daily life, La Vie Materielle, and Virginia Woolf'sa Room of One's Own, this special evening promises to be a gathering of talents; an experience of sharing these authors' extraordinary words whilst cooking, laughing, crying, singing, and dancing together in an imaginary and theatrical kitchen.
- nytheatre.com
- nytheatre.com
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Male: - Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PagePeer Gynt
Synopsis:
Peer Gynt sweeps around the world in a fruitless search for power and glory - outwitting wedding guests, trolls and a belly dancing con-woman who are all intent on bringing him down. Eventually this comic rogue is redeemed by the love of a good woman. The last of Ibsen's verse dramas. Irina Brook, daughter of Peter Brook, first read Peer Gynt as a young actress living in New York in the 1980s. In a relationship at the time with Iggy Pop, she imagined Ibsen's eponymous hero as the boisterous rock star. Years later, her vision has been vividly realised in an adaptation featuring creative contributions from the legendary musician as well as new writing from Pulitzer Prize-winning Sam Shepard. Driven by a timeless hunger for fame and wealth, Peer remains a man on a desperate quest for his inner-self. His fantastical journey is wholly updated by this exuberant show rich in contemporary imagery, live music and original poetry.
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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
1st Produced:
Salzburg Festival, Austria 2012
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Theatre National de Nice - CDN Cote d'Azure
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Genre:
adaptation
Parts:
Male: 9 Female: 5 Other: with doubling
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Top of PageShakespeares Sister (or La Vie Materielle)
Synopsis:
Irina Brook continues her Father Peters tradition at La MaMa with LA VIE MATeRIELLE, an adaptation of Virginia Woolfs A Room Of Ones Own and Marguerite Duras La Vie Materielle at a fantasy dinner party where five women prepare the cuisine while singing, dancing, and discussing their place in the world. - See more at: http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/shakespeares-sister-or-la-vie-materielle/#sthash.izoHXXTC.dpuf
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Directed and Adapted by Irina Brook; Texts by Marguerite Duras and Virginia Woolf; Songs by Sadie Jemmett. the production features a diverse ensemble including: Obie-award winner Winsome Brown as Virginia Woolf; former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck as Maugerite Duras; actress Nicole Ansari; concert violin soloist Yibin Li; and British singer/songwriter Sadie Jemmett.
1st Produced:
Ellen StewArt Theater, La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 20 Sep 2013
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 20 Sep 2013
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Top of PageWaiting For the Dream
Synopsis:
This is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream from La Compagnie Irina Brook. It is performed in French and english with subtitles. Performed in the original Shakespearean manner, with an all-male cast, numbering six in this adaptation, Waiting for the Dream was created with the goal of bringing theater to venues off the beaten track and to communities that normally have little contact with cultural activity. Ms. Brook wanted to work from the classical text of a Midsummer Night's Dream but with a free and playful approach and with all the creativity and invention necessary to make one believe that six men, with very few props or costumes, can become believable as pretty women, fairies and performing house builders. Hence Waiting for the Dream is born largely from improvisation in a bare village hall, with minimal scenic elements, costumes and props - mainly begged and borrowed: an old pink nightgown a flowery parasol, costumes made from elements from a hardware store: plumbers equipment, plastic bags, Saran Wrap, a couple of poles, a ball of string, some gathered leaves. What results is a joyful, playful, appealing Dream that abounds with poetry as well as slapstick, offering audiences both young and old a fresh, new way to enjoy Shakespeare's classic tale. Six actors interpret all the roles: the young lovers in theseus's court trying their best to overcome the many obstacles to their love; the fairies (e.g., Fairy Naff!) and their Queen Titania in conflict with Oberon, King of the elves; Puck, a funky, disjointed rapper and the motley band of mechanicals/house-builders, sub-amateur thespians cobbling together "the Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe."
- nytheatre.com
- nytheatre.com
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Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Adapted by Irina Brook; translated by Marie-Paule Ramo
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Male: 6 Female: - Other: -
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