Oldest Boys Productions in association with Accidental Repertory Theater

3B Development Series

Tickets 

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE:
In the interest of protecting the health and well-being of our artists and our patrons Round Dance is closed.

IN RESIDENCE: May 19 – June 15, 2020

Social turmoil acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, to paraphrase Shakespeare. Whether in turn-of-the-century Vienna when Round Dance was written, or in the post-Cold-War US, or the present day, when assumptions and social conventions start to shift, people reach out for comfort, companionship, and diversion across boundaries of class, age, and sensibilities. In Round Dance, ten characters drawn from every stratum of society each has an encounter with two other characters, exposing the laughter, tears, truths, and contradictions of the timeless quest for love, affection, and gratification. First performed in 1920, the ensuing scandal in turn-of-the-century Vienna led playwright Arthur Schnitzler to withdraw the work from publication in German-speaking countries. It remained popular elsewhere in Europe, but was only released again for German performances in 1982, forty years after Schnitzler’s death. Fellow Viennese Sigmund Freud had written to Schnitzler, “You have learned through intuition – though actually as a result of sensitive introspection – everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons.”

PERFORMANCES:
5/27,28,29,30 – 7pm
5/31 – 2pm
6/3,4,5,6 – 7pm
6/6,7 – 2pm
6/10 NO SHOW
6/11,12,13 7pm
6/13,14 – 2pm
LENGTH OF SHOW: 2hrs.
PRICE: $20.00
At IRT:154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)

Translated and Directed by H. Clark Kee
Lighting Design, Elizabeth M. Stewart

With: Ruth Guimera, Judy Krause*, Mark Peters*, Mike Roche* and Annie Winneg*

*Appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association

Clark Kee (Translator, Director) attended second grade in Marburg, Germany, beginning what would become a lifelong interest in German language and culture. As an undergraduate at Yale he studied literature with Peter Demetz and directing with Nikos Psacharopoulos. He began his professional theater career in the 70s as an assistant director and actor with the Williamstown Theater Festival’s Second Company. After a stint as assistant to Lynne Meadow at the Manhattan Theatre Club he founded West-Park Theater in NYC, producing updated classics and new works including two by Oscar-winner Ted Tally. Two of Clark’s translations from the German were produced at West-Park: Kandinsky’s “Yellow Sound,” and Büchner’s “Leonce and Lena.” In 2006 Clark joined John Strasberg’s Accidental Repertory Theater (ART), and currently serves as Administrative Director. “Round Dance” was developed in part in the ART professional workshop, and the Theater for the New City Writer’s Workshop.

Accidental Repertory Theater (Associate Producers) ART evolves from the artistic roots of the Moscow Art Theater, the Group Theater, and The Actors Studio. The deeply personal work that defines realistic theater has existed in great artists from all periods of history, and many cultures. It exists in all styles and forms, because reality is the human experience and knowledge that the artist expresses in the work. ART is a not-for-profit tax exempt 501(c)3 theater company founded in 2005 as a practical expression of the Organic Creative Process, which he discovered.