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The Schedule (full Press Release below)
TWO RIVER THEATER COMPANY Samuel Beckett Festival –
A Centennial Celebration March 14 – April 2, 2006
“Waiting for Godot” is sponsored in part by Lucas Capital Management, LLC
TRTC's Beckett Festival is sponsored in part by Monmouth University
Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT
Thursday, March 16 – Sunday, April 2, 2006
Directed by Seth Barrish
Widely praised as the most influential play of the second half of the 20th
century, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece “Waiting for Godot” depicts the eternal
search for meaning in a meaningless world. Heartbreakingly poignant and
outrageously funny, “Waiting for Godot” is at once an existential vaudeville,
an anatomy of a marriage, a plea for resistance, and an actor's playground.
Tuesday, March 14 - 8 pm
Wednesday, March 15 - 3 pm
Lecture & Concert: Schoenberg Romantic vs. Atonal Works
FREE/At Monmouth University (Wilson Auditorium on 3/14, Pollak Auditorium on 3/15)
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Wednesday, March 15 - 10 am
Visual art presentation featuring Giacometti and Duchamp
FREE/At Monmouth University (Pollak Auditorium)
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Saturday, March 18
5 pm - Edward Albee to read selections of Beckett's work
8 pm - “Waiting for Godot” press opening
Sunday, March 19 - 5 pm
Discussion with Barney Rosset (Grove Press founder who introduced the works
of Beckett to American readers), moderated by Dr. Lois Oppenheim, Chair, Dept
of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University. Barney Rosset, founded Grove Press in 1951. By the end of that decade, he had firmly established himself as one of the most important and influential men not only in American publishing, but in terms of American culture as well. He introduced American readers to Beckett, Ionesco, Harold Pinter and Jean Genet. In 1959, he fought for and won the right to publish the long-banned “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” He did the same for “Naked Lunch,” and throughout the 1960’s, Rosset produced films including the controversial “I Am Curious (Yellow)” and Beckett’s “Film.”
Monday, March 20 - 8 pm
Beckett & Buster Keaton Film Festival featuring 5 silent films by Buster
Keaton & Beckett's "Film"
Samuel Beckett's only venture into the medium of cinema, “Film” was written
in 1963 and filmed in New York in the summer of 1964. It was directed by Alan
Schneider and features Buster Keaton. The silent film, which has no dialogue,
was edited by Sydney Meyers with cinematography by Boris Kaufman, both of whom were preeminent in their fields at the time. “Film” was produced by Barney Rosset and Evergreen Theater.
FREE/At Monmouth University (Pollak Auditorium)
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Wednesday, March 22 - 10 pm
10pm - Q & A Talkback with “Waiting for Godot” cast
Thursday, March 23 - 8:30 pm
Samuel Beckett One Acts directed by Jonathan Fox
(Program A) “Not I,” “Ohio Impromptu,” “Footfalls
Friday, March 24 - 8:30 pm
Samuel Beckett One Acts directed by Jonathan Fox
Quad directed by Matthew Arbour
(Program B) “Catastrophe,” “Quad,” “What Where,” “Rockaby”
Saturday, March 25
4 pm - Beckett One Acts (Program A) “Not I,” “Ohio Impromptu,” “Footfalls”
8:30 pm - Beckett One Acts (Program B) “Catastrophe,” “Quad,” “What Where,”
“Rockaby”
Sunday, March 26
4 pm - Beckett One Acts (Program A) “Not I,” “Ohio Impromptu,” “Footfalls”
5:30 pm - Meet The Actors
Monday, March 27 - 7 pm
Directing Beckett, a panel discussion with Carey Perloff (Artistic Director
of San Francisco’s ACT), Olympia Dukakis, Seth Barrish and Jonathan Fox,
moderated by Dr. Lois Oppenheim, Chair, Dept of Modern Languages and
Literatures at Montclair State University.
Thursday, March 30
8 pm - “Waiting for Godot “Audio Described/Sign Interpreted performance
8:30 pm - Beckett One Acts (Program B) “Catastrophe,” “Quad,” “What Where,”
“Rockaby”
Friday, March 31 - 8:30 pm
Beckett One Acts (Program A) “Not I,” “Ohio Impromptu,” “Footfalls”
Saturday, April 1
4 pm - Beckett One Acts (Program B) “Catastrophe,” “Quad,” “What Where,”
“Rockaby”
8:30 pm - Beckett One Acts (Program A) “Not I,” “Ohio Impromptu,” “Footfalls”
Sunday, April 2 - 7 pm
Morton Feldman's Words and Music performed by NJ’s IoniSation New Music
Ensemble
At Monmouth University (Wilson Auditorium)
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EDWARD ALBEE INAUGURATES
TWO RIVER THEATER COMPANY’S FESTIVAL
CELEBRATING SAMUEL BECKETT ON HIS CENTENNIAL
Festival runs March 16 through April 2, 2006
The only NY/NJ Metro Area Festival to honor this Irish literary giant will include Edward Albee, Olympia Dukakis, Carey Perloff, Barney Rosset in symposia and discussion groups; A full production of his masterpiece, “Waiting for Godot”;
Seven one-act plays directed by Jonathan Fox; a live radio play; A Beckett and Buster Keaton Film Festival and Morton Feldman’s Words and Music performed by NJ’s IoniSation
January 15, 2006 (Red Bank, NJ) Two River Theater Company, under the
leadership of Producer Robert M. Rechnitz and Artistic Director Jonathan Fox,
is proud to present a three-week festival celebrating the life and work of the
literary giant Samuel Beckett, from March 16 through April 2, 2006.
The festival, timed to coincide with Beckett’s centennial, will take place at
Two River Theatre Company’s new state-of-the-art performance venue on Bridge Avenue in Red Bank; and is only one of three scheduled internationally this year, the other two are Paris and Dublin. The centerpiece of this one-of-a-kind festival will be a three-week production of his comic masterpiece, “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Seth Barrish, from March 16 through April 2.
Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee inaugurates the
festival on Saturday, March 18, at 5pm with a selection of Beckett readings and
an audience talkback, prior to that night’s press opening of “Waiting for
Godot” at 8pm. On Sunday, March 19, at 5pm Barney Rosset, who produced
Beckett’s “Film,” will host an audience talkback moderated by Dr. Lois
Oppenheim. A festival highlight takes place on Monday, March 20, at 8pm; a
Beckett & Buster Keaton Film Festival featuring 5 silent films by Buster Keaton
and Beckett's "Film." Academy Award winning actress Olympia Dukakis and
Artistic Director Carey Perloff (of San Francisco’s ACT) will take part in a
Directing Beckett panel on Monday, March 27. In addition, the festival will
include two programs of Beckett’s short plays directed by Two River Artistic
Director Jonathan Fox (“Not I,” “Ohio Impromptu,” “Footfalls,” “Catastrophe,”
“Quad,” “What Where,” “Rockaby”), his radio play “All that Fall,” and inspired
by the words of Beckett is Morton Feldman’s “Words and Music” performed by NJ’s IoniSation on Sunday, April 2.
Admission to the keynote address with Edward Albee is $25, tickets to
“Waiting for Godot” range from $25 - $45, the Beckett and Buster Keaton film
festival is free and open to the public, and other festival events are $15. An exclusive All-Beckett Pass which provides admission to all events is $75. For more information call the Two River Box Office at 732-345-1400 or log on to www.trtc.org.
Playwright Samuel Beckett changed the way we see the world -- and changed the way the world sees theater. He is acknowledged as one of the most important and visionary writers of the 20th century, one whose stark depictions of human isolation captured the spirit of a rapidly-changing, chaotic world. A
towering figure of modern drama, Beckett was born April 13, 1906. Beginning
with his first professionally produced play, “Waiting for Godot,” in 1953,
Beckett continually broke through theatrical convention to create stunning,
comical, and agonizing portraits of the human animal grappling with his
existence. He wrote increasingly condensed and spare plays and in the process
influenced dozens of contemporary playwrights, including Harold Pinter, Tom
Stoppard, Edward Albee, and David Mamet. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Paris in 1989.
Two River Theater Company, under the direction of Executive Producer Robert
M. Rechnitz and Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, was founded in 1994 as Monmouth County's first professional regional theater in 30 years. Two River’s mission is to perform from the world body of dramatic literature, including new works, those plays which most richly direct our gaze to the life of the human spirit in all of its shifting modes, its thought, its suffering, its passion, its joy
and laughter. As one of New Jersey's leading regional theatres, Two River
Theater Company, a not-for-profit arts organization, is supported in part by
grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State, a partner
agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation, in addition to contributions from many corporations, foundations,
businesses and individuals. Two River Theater Company is a member of Theatre
Communications Group and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.
Two River Theater Company, located at its new 350-seat, state-of-the-art
theater at 21 Bridge Avenue in Red Bank, NJ, 07701, is easily accessible by car
from New York City (60 min. from midtown), Philadelphia (75 minutes) and New
Jersey via the Garden State Parkway (Exit 109). From NY’s Penn Station: NJ
Transit’s North Jersey Coast line offers nonstop service (approx. 90 minutes)
from Manhattan to Red Bank on selected days and times, convenient for weekday matinees, evening performances and Saturday/Sunday performances. For further information call NJ Transit at 1-800-772-2222 or visit www.njtransit.com. Two River Theater Company is barrier-free and completely accessible to people with disabilities. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted into mainstage shows. Tickets/Information: Tickets $25-$45. Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. $15 student tickets available for any performance with current ID. Box Office phone: 732-345-1400 Website: www.trtc.org
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