A Pick-Up Performance Co.(S) Production of
Brecht & Eisler’s The Roundheads & The Pointheads
edited directed and choreographed by David Gordon
Deccember 13-15, 19-22
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York NY 10011
212.255.5793 www.thekitchen.org
from the pressblurb:
“David Gordon’s Uncivil Wars is a new dance-theater work considering the complex divisions along racial, religious, linguistic, and geographical lines engendered by war. Developed from material borrowed from Bertolt Brecht’s treatises on playwriting and from his play The Roundheads and The Pointheads, as translated by Michael Feingold, as well as from Hanns Eisler’s thoughts on composing for the theater, the work also explores ideas about inspiration, collaboration and the implications of readdressing historical works in the changed context of our present moment. The show features eight performers (including Estelle Parsons, John Kelly and Valda Setterfield) playing multiple roles, as well as lighting by Jennifer Tipton and music direction by Gina Leishman.”
