Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:40:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Poxon <poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Clarice Lispector and NaCl Theatre (fwd)



For those of you who live in the NYC area, this may be of interest....

Judith Poxon
co-moderator, french-feminism
poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu

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>From: "NaCl Theatre" <nacl-AT-nacl.org>
>Subject: Clarice Lispector and NaCl Theatre
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:07:45 -0500
>
>Dear friends of Brazilian Literature, Theatre, and Clarice Lispector,
>
>NaCl Theatre (North American Cultural Laboratory), an independent New York
>theatre company, has created an original and exciting theatrical adaptation
>of The Passion according to G.H. a novel written by the great Brazilian
>writer, Clarice Lispector.
>
>We wish to invite you to come see our performance, "The Passion according 
>to
>G.H." (performed in English)
>Starting Wednesday, March 21, 2001.
>The performance will run for 4 weeks until April 14, 2001.
>Showtimes are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8 PM.
>The venue is the gallery room in Access Theatre located at 380 Broadway, 2
>blocks S. of Canal, New York City.
>
>Tickets are $12 for students, seniors, and low income; $15 regular; and
>Wednesdays are PWYC (pay-what-you-can).  Reserve by calling (212) 946-5734
>or purchase tickets online at www.nacl.org or www.offbway.com
>
>If you would like more information call (718) 398-4589 and ask for Tannis
>Kowalchuk or Brad Krumholz.
>
>
>THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H. created and adapted by NaCl Theatre
>
>Based on the novel by Clarice Lispector
>Directed by Brad Krumholz
>Performed by Tannis Kowalchuk
>
>The performance is a solo theatre event performed by NaCl actress, Tannis
>Kowalchuk.  The story was adapted and directed by NaCl director, Brad
>Krumholz from the book by one of 20th century's most important Brazilian
>literary figures, Clarice Lispector (1926-1977).  The playıs text is based
>entirely on Lispectorıs beautiful and demanding novel.  Written in first
>person, the elliptical story concerns the protagonist, G.H., who, like many
>of Lispector's female characters, gains awareness of herself and her place
>in an apparently arbitrary universe.
>
>The journey begins when G.H. finds a huge cockroach in her apartment.
>Throughout the complex monologue, questions of memory, reality, experience,
>truth, and distilling ³the now² come into play.  All of the performance
>material was created by NaCl actress Tannis Kowalchuk.  Kowalchuk, has
>worked over ten years in physical and avante-garde theatre, and in ³GH,² 
>she
>gives a humorous, and relentlessly kinetic performance as a privileged 
>woman
>who wrestles discursively with her ³loss of self² to the dark world of
>primal nature.
>
>The audience of thirty sits inside the diamond shaped set, and during the
>performance, Kowalchuk builds a white room around the spectators, magically
>creating the environment where her story takes place.  She projects slide
>images on the walls of the room; uses objects and costumes in surprising 
>and
>unexpected ways; sings, dances, and carries the audience along on her
>mutation from ³nice lady² to ³primal being² and back again.
>
>
>HISTORY
>The performance of "The Passion according to G.H." was built over a period
>of one year in 1998 while NaCl was in residence at La MaMa Experimental
>Theatre Club in New York City.  The show premiered October 1998 in
>Cleveland, Ohio, at the Loon Tree Festival hosted by Theatre Labyrinth.
>Over the years it has subsequently played at House of Candles, Context, and
>La MaMa in New York City; the Brazilian-American Cultural Institute in
>Washington, DC; and in Quatrefoil, a solo performance festival in Toronto,
>Canada.
>
>Reviews:
>
>--"[The Passion according to G.H.] ventures into Kafka territory with the
>story of an elegant woman who has a life-changing encounter with a
>cockroach. With her powerful voice and control of the stage--the audience
>sits within the set and is directly confronted by the performer--Kowalchuk
>gives added life to an intelligent and witty text."--- Jon Kaplan, NOW
>Magazine, Toronto
>
>--"[NaCl] conjures a magical world, where the primitive passions of a 
>people
>play out under the sway of an all-powerful God.... A kind of post-Babel,
>postmodern blend of dialogue and dance, music and gynmastics, this original
>vocabulary is utterly beguiling."-- Francine Russo, THE VILLAGE VOICE
>
>
>NaCl Theatre was founded in 1997 and presents original ensemble performance
>blending vigorous physicality, song, original stories or adaptations of
>texts.  NaCl has created six performances including "Arca Nova", "ASPHYXIA
>and Other Promises," and recently, "The Time Cycle".  NaCl performs in New
>York City, Canada, Europe, and has a theatre and work centre in The
>Catskills where they produce the annual Catskill Festival of New Theatre.
>The group also teaches its actor training in professional workshops and in
>public schools.
>
>Visit our website at www.nacl.org
>
>
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>WOULD LIKE THIS INFO.
>
>
>

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