In today’s roundup, act in the classics this season and tour the U.K. in “Oedipus” and “Antigone” with Beyond the Horizon Theatre Company! There are also roles available in a crossover period drama, a collaborative musical, and a hyper-realistic drama. “Oedipus” And “Antigone” Following its critically-acclaimed 2017 tour of “Richard III,” Beyond the Horizon Theatre Company is seeking actors for its upcoming touring productions of Sophocles’ “Oedipus” and “Antigone.” Male and female talent aged 18 and older are needed for all roles in the productions. Performances run in Spring 2018. Equity minimum pay will be provided. Apply here! “The Chairman” “The Chairman,” a feature film from the creators of “Ask the Cheat,” is looking to cast local actors for the crossover period drama set in the Middle Ages that juxtaposes two parallel and interconnecting stories. A male actor aged 29–39 is needed to play the lead role of Tim, a sedan chair...
- 7/21/2017
- backstage.com
Since the days of Shakespeare, theater has welcomed politics to the stage. For that reason, it’s been an acting medium that “Orange Is the New Black” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Samira Wiley has visited time and again. This Sunday, April 30, she’ll reunite with Theater of War Productions for a stirring, empowering take on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final sermon, “The Drum Major Instinct,” as part of the Bric Open theater festival in Brooklyn, New York. The dramatic reading will take place from 1 p.m.–3 p.m. at the Bric House Ballroom. “[Theater of War is] a company I would literally drop everything, schedule-permitting, to go and work with,” Wiley told Backstage on a recent phone interview. “I believe that they are a theater for change, [and] they’re a theater company that is really in touch with what’s going on in the world.” Wiley previously worked with the company,...
- 4/28/2017
- backstage.com
Halloween is officially over which means the holiday season is around the corner (whether you like it or not). Luckily, today’s casting notices may help get you into the Christmas spirit, as Fox’s upcoming sketch show, “White Hot Christmas in New York,” is casting several background roles. We also have three more projects that are decidedly less festive, but just as fantastic. See them below! Fox’S “White Hot Christmas In New York”Union talent is sought for a variety of background roles in Fox’s holiday special “White Hot Christmas in New York.” Seeking actors to portray parts including child visitors to Santa, parents and, yes, “sexy Santa’s helper,” the project will shoot Nov. 3 in New York City. “Riot Antigone”“Riot Antigone,” a new musical based on the Sophocles tragedy “told from the perspective of a Chorus Leader and her all-female punk band,” is casting nonunion talent for several roles.
- 11/1/2016
- backstage.com
Andrea Demetriades and Louisa Mignone in Latte e Miele, which they both also directed.
Latte e Miele (Milk and Honey), Andrea Demetriades.s first outing as a director, is currently screening as part of the Greek Film Festival.
Demetriades directed the short along with her .partner in crime., fellow actress Louisa Mignone, and both star as the leads.
Set in the early 1950s, Latte e Miele is the story of two sisters who.ve left war-torn Italy on the promise of a better life in rural Australia.
On arrival they meet their husbands, whom they.ve married by proxy, for the first time. However, neither the men nor the country turn out quite like the. women expect.
.It.s a comedy,. Demetriades told If. .But I feel as if comedy can sometimes amplify the tragedy of the situation and really force people to listen..
Mignone wrote the screenplay, but she...
Latte e Miele (Milk and Honey), Andrea Demetriades.s first outing as a director, is currently screening as part of the Greek Film Festival.
Demetriades directed the short along with her .partner in crime., fellow actress Louisa Mignone, and both star as the leads.
Set in the early 1950s, Latte e Miele is the story of two sisters who.ve left war-torn Italy on the promise of a better life in rural Australia.
On arrival they meet their husbands, whom they.ve married by proxy, for the first time. However, neither the men nor the country turn out quite like the. women expect.
.It.s a comedy,. Demetriades told If. .But I feel as if comedy can sometimes amplify the tragedy of the situation and really force people to listen..
Mignone wrote the screenplay, but she...
- 10/14/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Theban Plays Created by Ryan Pater, Eliza McKelway and Deidrea Hamid Directed by Asa Horvitz The Brick, Brooklyn, NY January 22-30, 2016
Anyone expecting from Theban Plays a straightforward modernized retelling of Sophoclean tragedies should abandon that idea. This highly experimental work, conceived and directed by Asa Horvitz and created by its performers, uses its ancient Greek antecedents, short pieces of which are read at several points, as a jumping-off point for a tapestry of monologues, video, audio and music, and even painting. Taken together, these elements bring lines of thought inspired by its sources to bear on an interrogation of aspects of the modern condition.
Theban Plays is structured as three main sections, each centered on a version of a character from Sophocles. All three, "Oedcast," "Jocasta/Colonus," and "Antigone," decontextualize their speakers as residents of contemporary NYC. The Oedipus figure (Ryan Pater) in "Oedcast" arrived in the city with...
Anyone expecting from Theban Plays a straightforward modernized retelling of Sophoclean tragedies should abandon that idea. This highly experimental work, conceived and directed by Asa Horvitz and created by its performers, uses its ancient Greek antecedents, short pieces of which are read at several points, as a jumping-off point for a tapestry of monologues, video, audio and music, and even painting. Taken together, these elements bring lines of thought inspired by its sources to bear on an interrogation of aspects of the modern condition.
Theban Plays is structured as three main sections, each centered on a version of a character from Sophocles. All three, "Oedcast," "Jocasta/Colonus," and "Antigone," decontextualize their speakers as residents of contemporary NYC. The Oedipus figure (Ryan Pater) in "Oedcast" arrived in the city with...
- 2/5/2016
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Ivo van Hove brings his stripped-down, damn-all-conventions approach to Sophocles, in this case “Antigone,” which opened Sunday at Bam’s Harvey Theater and stars Juliette Binoche. (It runs through Oct. 4.) Fans of the Belgian director won’t be disappointed by this modern-dress production, first performed in February 2015 at Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg, which turns the ruler Kreon (Patrick O’Kane) into a 21st-century fascist who brags, “First let me say/Our city is safe again.” Kreon hails Antigone’s dead brother Eteokles and buries him with honors. He damns her other brother, Polyneikes, as a traitor in the civil war,...
- 9/28/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The Belgian director Ivo van Hove almost always has the term avant-garde attached to his name, but with four major New York productions this season, including two on Broadway, he probably needs a new adjective. Not that he’s completely abandoned the techniques and tics that make the style so recognizable, and thus faintly ridiculous, to regular theatergoers. Murky video, drony music, indeterminate or clashing settings are all still part of the vocabulary. His production of Sophocles’s Antigone, now at Bam, takes place both in a desert outside ancient Thebes and, downstage, on a lower level of the set, in some sort of contemporary municipal office, with a leather sofa and file cabinets. The costumes, mostly black of course, would not be unwelcome in a Soho shop window, and look particularly terrific on his star, Juliette Binoche. But unlike some of van Hove’s earlier productions, which seemed almost...
- 9/28/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Theater Mania Juliette Binoche to return to the stage with Sophocles' Antigone
Playbill interviews Laura Benanti
Variety the charming animated fable Song of the Sea takes Best Picture at the Irish Film Awards. Have you seen it yet? It was very nearly my favorite of last year's animated pictures.
Guardian interviews Vincent Cassell on his disturbing Australian drama Partisan with a look back at his now-classic breakthrough in La Haine (which might get a sequel)
Variety critics hash out the best and worst of Cannes together with the most fascinating split being on Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Assassin which Debruge finds "impenetrable" and for which Chang expresses rapturous love. (Note: they also seem to admire Carol more than love it - which is why I've always been less bullish than most early Oscar prognosticators in assuming AMPAS's future love for it)
Nick Davis, Tim Brayton, Ivan Albertson and...
Playbill interviews Laura Benanti
Variety the charming animated fable Song of the Sea takes Best Picture at the Irish Film Awards. Have you seen it yet? It was very nearly my favorite of last year's animated pictures.
Guardian interviews Vincent Cassell on his disturbing Australian drama Partisan with a look back at his now-classic breakthrough in La Haine (which might get a sequel)
Variety critics hash out the best and worst of Cannes together with the most fascinating split being on Hou Hsiao Hsien's The Assassin which Debruge finds "impenetrable" and for which Chang expresses rapturous love. (Note: they also seem to admire Carol more than love it - which is why I've always been less bullish than most early Oscar prognosticators in assuming AMPAS's future love for it)
Nick Davis, Tim Brayton, Ivan Albertson and...
- 5/26/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Raro Video resurrects an excitingly obscure title this month with Liliana Cavani’s 1967 film, The Year of the Cannibals, a counter culture art house film modernizing Sophocles’ play Antigone to explore modern political unrest, here in the streets of Milan. Cavani, perhaps best known for her notorious 1974 film The Night Porter, posing star Charlotte Rampling in one of her most iconic roles, has crafted a stunningly photographed and arresting film in this early work that’s ripe for rediscovery. Shown in art houses and retrospectives after receiving favorable reaction upon domestic release and major film festival play (Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes), the title never secured distribution in the Us, though this is mostly due to Cavani’s refusal to change the bleak finale when a major studio approached her to buy the film.
Set in a dystopic Milan, corpses litter the bustling streets after the government has squashed a vicious rebellion.
Set in a dystopic Milan, corpses litter the bustling streets after the government has squashed a vicious rebellion.
- 1/28/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
What more has Courtney Love possibly got to share with us, and how will Steve McQueen fare at the Oscars? These are just a few of the topics that will set tongues wagging in the new year
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Courtney Love's memoir
The question is not so much "what will be in Courtney Love's book?" as "what could possibly be in Courtney Love's book that she hasn't already spoken/ranted/raved about?" Still, her self-titled autobiography has been described as "too crazy not to be true" and should provide her definitive take on her time with Hole and her doomed relationship with Kurt Cobain. It will also, hopefully, spill previously unspilled beans on her relationships with Billy Corgan and Steve Coogan. Oh, and according to an interview she did with Rolling Stone, it was inspired by Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. The mind boggles. Tj
Everything to...
Pop
Courtney Love's memoir
The question is not so much "what will be in Courtney Love's book?" as "what could possibly be in Courtney Love's book that she hasn't already spoken/ranted/raved about?" Still, her self-titled autobiography has been described as "too crazy not to be true" and should provide her definitive take on her time with Hole and her doomed relationship with Kurt Cobain. It will also, hopefully, spill previously unspilled beans on her relationships with Billy Corgan and Steve Coogan. Oh, and according to an interview she did with Rolling Stone, it was inspired by Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. The mind boggles. Tj
Everything to...
- 1/1/2014
- by Mark Lawson, Andrew Dickson, Lyn Gardner, Oliver Wainwright, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Tim Jonze, Henry Barnes, Stuart Heritage, Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
The heroine’s name is Antigone, but the myths at work in “Standing Aside, Watching,” are those of the American western, a western one whose heroine has more cojones than a dozen Gary Coopers. The film? A model of urgent, contemporary storytelling by Greek director Yorgos Servetas, with a sometimes spare, sometimes epic visual take on modern Greece and a story that synthesizes past and present, while creating its own drama. The empowered female seldom arrives more empowered than Antigone, or creates such an captivating dust storm of righteous anger. Played with delicious ferocity by Marina Symeou, Antigone returns to her backwater home town after a failed acting career in Athens, and finds the place the way Wyatt Earp found Tombstone. Antigone – in Greek myth, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and, a la Sophocles, the plague of male injustice – gets a job as an English teacher, finds a much younger lover,...
- 9/11/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
I always felt an icky attraction-repulsion, more slanted towards repulsion, for Liliana Cavani's most celebrated film, The Night Porter. But thinking about it now, I have to give her credit for boldly delving into the psychology of the persecutor-victim relationship in a way that no previous filmmaker quite had.
If that movie still makes me uncomfortable, I was nevertheless instantly psyched to see I cannibali (The Cannibals, 1970), a sci-fi hippy version of Antigone starring Britt Ekland. Maybe I'm shallow.
(Hippy science fiction movies go all the way from the super-respectable and respect-worthy 2001 at one extreme, past Silent Running somewhere in the middle, all the way to Jim McBride's 1971 post-atomic Adam and Eve story Glen and Randa. It's a sub-genre that can get a bit embarrassing, what with Bruce Dern lecturing us about "the simple beauty of a leaf" and all, but having been entered the world in 1967 maybe...
If that movie still makes me uncomfortable, I was nevertheless instantly psyched to see I cannibali (The Cannibals, 1970), a sci-fi hippy version of Antigone starring Britt Ekland. Maybe I'm shallow.
(Hippy science fiction movies go all the way from the super-respectable and respect-worthy 2001 at one extreme, past Silent Running somewhere in the middle, all the way to Jim McBride's 1971 post-atomic Adam and Eve story Glen and Randa. It's a sub-genre that can get a bit embarrassing, what with Bruce Dern lecturing us about "the simple beauty of a leaf" and all, but having been entered the world in 1967 maybe...
- 1/17/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
A debut novel that reinterprets Homer's Iliad is the latest in an array of works to be inspired by the classics
When Madeline Miller won the Orange prize for fiction last week for her debut novel The Song of Achilles, it seemed only natural to wonder how the mythical Greek hero of her book might celebrate. "I think he'd do it in a very epic way," she says, laughing. "And luckily one of the lovely sponsors [of the prize] gave me a very large bottle of champagne."
Miller's book, written in her spare time while she taught Latin in Us secondary schools, is based on Homer's Iliad and vividly reimagines the story of Patroclus, the brother-in-arms of Achilles. Although Miller's inspiration was ancient, her themes are undoubtedly modern: The Song of Achilles charts the deep and loving relationship between these two, same-sex characters in a time of war and brutality.
"I...
When Madeline Miller won the Orange prize for fiction last week for her debut novel The Song of Achilles, it seemed only natural to wonder how the mythical Greek hero of her book might celebrate. "I think he'd do it in a very epic way," she says, laughing. "And luckily one of the lovely sponsors [of the prize] gave me a very large bottle of champagne."
Miller's book, written in her spare time while she taught Latin in Us secondary schools, is based on Homer's Iliad and vividly reimagines the story of Patroclus, the brother-in-arms of Achilles. Although Miller's inspiration was ancient, her themes are undoubtedly modern: The Song of Achilles charts the deep and loving relationship between these two, same-sex characters in a time of war and brutality.
"I...
- 6/2/2012
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
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