The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the second show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, IL FURIOSO: THE BIRTH OF MODERN JUSTICE WITH DRUMS, running from November 18-22, 2009 at 8pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $10 (CUNY Students $5). For tickets, call the Communication and Theater Arts department at 212-237-8363.
This season the Gerald W. Lynch Theater launches a new JustIce Theatre Festival, which showcases new plays that address themes of justice. The theme for Fall 2009 is FLESH & BLOOD: Justice and the Family.IL FURIOSO: THE BIRTH OF MODERN JUSTICE, a dual language adaptation of Aeschylus' Eumenides with drums, is directed by Seth Baumrin and presented by John Jay's Department of Communication & Theatre Arts.IL FURIOSO uses drumming, movement theatre, and Aeschylus' classical text, with a new bilingual translation spoken in English and Spanish, to dig up the roots of justice, from bloody revenge to fair trail in multi-tribal Athens. IL FURIOSO focuses on the Athens that Aeschylus lived in and how that Athens has meaning today, like classical Athens the comtemporary world is in need of a rigorous but compassionate system of justIce To replace cyclical revenge killing, a stubborn form of justice from the ancient world that persists today. Orestes has killed his mother and is hunted down by the Furies, demonic demigods who brutally punish the guilty, but Athena intervenes and gives Orestes a trial by an Athenian jury. The performance also addresses historical circumstances, demonstrating through various African, Persian, and Spanish drumming and visual elements that Athens was the cradle of the Occident in its own time.Videos