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Castillo Theatre Presents Playing with Heiner Muller 11/5-12/12
By: Gabrielle Sierra Oct. 27, 2010
Castillo Theatre Presents Playing with Heiner Müller, An all-Black cast presents Heiner Müller's avant-garde classics playing 20th century historical figures from Stalin to Hitler and Müller himself
Texts by Heiner Müller
Additional Texts by FrEd Newman
Original Songs by FrEd Newman
Rap by Nichelle "Browneyes" Brown
Meet Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Hamlet, Ophelia, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertolt Brecht, talk show host Sally McNally, part of a virtual parade of 76 characters - famous, infamous and fictional - all played by a talented and spirited ensemble of five actors. This startling theatrical montage with 17 songs and rap, is the Castillo Theatre's latest foray into material by Heiner Müller, the East German playwright/poet who enraged the authorities before the Berlin wall came down, but never defected or repudiated communism.
Performed by an all-Black ensemble of five extraordinary actors (Keldrick Crowder, Fulton Hodges, Ava Jenkins, Sylenia Lewis and John Rankin) Playing with Heiner Müller tears down the iron curtain between drama and comedy, the personal and the political, the modern and the postmodern, Black theatre and the avant-garde.
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