UCLA Live's Seventh International Theatre Festival Announces Lineup Including Hynes and Lepage

UCLA Live’s Seventh International Theatre Festival, sponsored by Yahoo!, will be held October 1 through December 21, 2008, and will showcase an unparalleled range of eclectic and classic work, with several exclusives, debuts and premieres. Tickets may be purchased online at www.uclalive.org, by phone at 310-825-2101, in person at the UCLA Central TicketOffice at the southwest corner of the James West Alumni Center, and at all Ticketmaster outlets. UCLA Live’s flagship Festival will present the U.S. debut of Australian-born writer-director Barrie Kosky in his powerful adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-TaleHeart”; the West Coast debut of Ireland’s internationally acclaimed Druid Theatre Company in Tony Award-winning founder-director Garry Hynes’ double-bill of John Millington Synge’s masterpieces, “Playboy of the Western World” and “The Shadow ofthe Glen”; and the return of Berlin’s Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in itssecond-ever visit to the U.S. in Anton Chekhov’s first play “Ivanov,” directed by Dimiter Gotscheff.

UCLA Live co-commissioned works by two artists returning to the Festival including the Los Angeles performance debut of Canadian director-auteur Robert Lepage with hiscompany Ex Machina in the North American premiere of “The Blue Dragon,” andEnglish director/performer Andrew Dawson in the U.S. exclusives of “Quatre Mains”and “Space Panorama,” both intimate narratives told simply through the dexterity of thehuman hands. A highlight includes the U.S. exclusive of Moroccan-Flemishchoreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s new work, “Myth,” produced in association with Antwerp’s Toneelhuis theatre collective.

UCLA Live is an internationally acclaimed producer and presenter of music, dance,theater and spoken word, bringing hundreds of outstanding and provocative artists toLos Angeles each year. From the ancient to the modern, the local to the global, and theunderground to the world-renowned, UCLA Live is committed to supporting thedevelopment of new and existing work by both major and emerging artists

For more information including complete schedule and ticket prices please visit www.uclalive.org.