Instead of beating wings, there’s David Bowie’s otherworldly wails. With little more than a stack of vinyl records, a few fluorescent lights, and a saline drip, Dutch visionary Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam deliver a revelatory take on Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic. Encompassing both “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika,” this marathon production strips Kushner’s now-iconic characters—Prior Walter and his boyfriend Louis, Reaganite lawyer Roy Cohn, Mormon couple Joe and Harper Pitt—to their essence, boldly reimagining “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.”
By Tony Kushner
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Part of Next Wave Festival 2014
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 7 PM
SATURDAY @ 6 PM
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: One 45 minute break
Audience Advisory:
Engagement is SOLD OUT