Photo Flash: The Black Box Performing Arts Center presents PEER GYNT
By: A.A. Cristi
The Black Box Performing Arts Center continues to emerge as the Tri-State area's premiere destination for both cutting-edge professional theater and collaborative performing arts education - in the heart of Teaneck, NJ- just a quick ride over the George Washington Bridge.
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (author of classic domestic dramas such as A Doll Houseand Hedda Gabler) continues BBPAC's second full 2017-18 season of professional theater, which includes four more 'mainstage' productions, two ongoing pop musicals for kids, and the development of at least three original works for the stage.
This new production of Peer Gynt - presented in special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., NY - is directed by BBPAC Artistic Director Matt Okin, produced byBlack Box Studios, and features a stellar cast of BBPAC mainstays and newcomers:Brennen Dopwell, Allison Falkenstern, Michael Gardiner, Bishon Prushankin, Joseph Ramondino, Jake Geary, Savannah Lloyd, Danielle MacMath, Ellen Revesz, andLaurence Wallace with Assistant Director/Production Stage Manager Savannah Lloyd.
Peer Gynt will continue to play the next three weekends only through February 4, Thursday through Sundays at 7:30pm, at Black Box Studios' new home, Teaneck'sBlack Box Performing Arts Center (200 Walraven Drive. (just off Palisade Ave., GPS: 290 Walraven Drive), Teaneck, NJ 07666.
In Ibsen's infamous epic, a reckless and egotistical Peer seeks a life full of adventure and success, but without all the not-so-glamorous agony and dread. After wooing and subsequently crushing the heart of not one but three eager admirers, Peer decides that it's time to "quit this soil" and pursue a life beyond all that is familiar. An unprecedented experimental rendition of the most widely performing of all Norwegian plays, which - according to Klaus Van Den Berg - features a "cinematic script [that] blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones." Peer Gynt has been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. When all is said and done, will Peer discover "the victory only dread can give?"
Tickets are $25 ($20 for students/seniors) and are now available atwww.blackboxpac.com. Group rates for 10 or more are available by calling (201) 357-2221. Tickets can also be purchased at the venue; please call (201) 357-2221for box office hours.
Black Box Performing Arts Center is located at 200 Walraven Drive, just off Palisade Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666 (GPS: 290 Walraven Drive). Following this season's opener Hand To God by Robert Askins and then Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child, the New York City area's most eclectic theatre offerings continue at BBPAC with Mr. Ibsen's classic masterpiece, to be followed with a new production of Hair and so much more: www.blackboxpac.com. In 2016017, BBPAC's first full season included new productions of Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, Willy Russell's Blood Brothers A Musical, Evil Dead The Musical, Edward Albee's The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? , Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, Michael Gurin's Twist Of Faith, Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, and Ayad Ahktar's Disgraced.
Photo credit: Glenn Lesnik/Glenn L Photography
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
Black Box Studios presents PEER GYNT
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