Posted: 10/10/17 at 2:18pm
Row H, center orchestra, at the Harvey Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Wednesday 10/11 at 7:30pm. $115 face value. I'm asking $75. It's a prime seat for a major theater event (and tonight's show is sold out).
If interested, e-mail me at awsphil@aol.com
Here is the New York Magazine description/recommendation:
10/11
Richard III
October 11 through 14, BAM
Forget Julius Caesar. For full-throttle rage-against-the-machine Shakespeare, I’m holding out (and holding my breath) for director Thomas Ostermeier’s German-language Richard III, coming to BAM’s Next Wave Festival from the Schaubühne Berlin. Ostermeier, who began his career as an actor, became an enfant terrible among German auteurs in the 1990s by bringing the visceral, can’t-look-away dramas of British playwrights like Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill to his home country. He then turned to the classics, putting canonical behemoths like Hamlet and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House through the wringer of his grimy, explosive aesthetic (he calls it “new realism” and has described it as a kind of revenge on the stupidity and violence spawned by a merciless capitalist world). Ostermeier’s Hamlet was the beautiful and terrifying German actor Lars Eidinger, who now returns as Shakespeare’s hunchbacked Man Who WouldB e King. The text is translated and adapted by Marius von Mayenburg, whose play The Ugly One (a hilarious and horrid assault on our obsession with skin-deep beauty) might actually be a perfect appetizer for Richard III. There will be dirt, there will be glitter, there will be blood. —Sara Holdren
Updated On: 10/11/17 at 02:18 PM
