Clarke's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' To Play at Minetta Lane Starting 10/21

Alan Schuster, Martin Davis, Davo Entertainment LLC and Margaret Cotter in association with Barbara Foy present
The Two River Theater Production
 of 
Garden of Earthly Delights in a limited 12-week Off-Broadway engagement beginning Wednesday, October 8. Conceived and directed by Martha Clarke, this production will have its Official Opening on Tuesday, October 21 @ 7:00 PM at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane). 

Visionary director Martha Clarke brings Hieronymus Bosch’s provocative painting to life in Garden of Earthly Delights -- exploring heaven, hell and the beauty and sins in between.  This production takes audiences on a journey from creation through Eden, earthly existence, damnation and redemption through a landscape of aerial and stage-based performance in a striking synthesis of visual elements and movement.

This reinvention of the acclaimed work by Martha Clarke touches down in New York for the first time since the groundbreaking production debuted at St. Clement’s (November, 1984).  The show later played an extended run at the Minetta Lane Theatre (May-August 1987) and enjoyed engagements at numerous prestigious venues.  The original production was honored with a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, an Obie Award for its score and an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for choreography and drew great critical response, with Robert Brustein of The New Republic calling it, “Arguably one of the most significant works of postwar American theatrical art." 
 

Conceived and directed by Martha Clarke, Garden of Earthly Delights features performers Sophie Bortolussi, Benjamin G. Bowman, Marjorie Folkman, Kurt Froman, General McArthur Hambrick, Whitney V. Hunter, Gabrielle Malone, Jennifer Nugent, Matt Rivera, Jenny Sandler, Isadora Wolfe and musicians Bohdan Hilash (winds), Wayne Hankin (winds), Egil Rostad (cello) and Arthur Solari (percussion).  This production includes an Original Score by Richard Peaslee (also with Martha Clarke: Vienna: Lusthaus, The Hunger Artist, Miracolo d’amore; with Peter Brook / Royal Shakespeare Company: The Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Costume Design by Jane Greenwood (Martha Clarke’s Belle Epoque, An Uncertain Hour, Vers la flame, Marco Polo, Orfeo and Euridice; Broadway: Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Set and Lighting Design by Christopher Akerlind (collaborations with Martha Clarke include Kaos, Belle Epoque, Sueno; Broadway Lighting Design credits: Top Girls, The Light in the Piazza), with state-of-the-art flying devices created by the “Flying By Foy” workshop.  

Recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, Martha Clarke's career spans theater, dance and opera. Trained at the Peabody Preparatory and later at Juilliard under Antony Tudor and Anna Sokolow, she was a founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Crowsnest. As a director, Clarke’s many original productions include Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna: Lusthaus, Miracolo d’amore, Endangered Species, An Uncertain Hour, The Hunger Artist, and Vers la flame. She directed the premiere of Christopher Hampton’s Alice’s Adventures Underground at the Royal National Theatre in London. She directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the American Repertory Theater and a music/theater work, Belle Epoque, based on the life of Toulouse Lautrec, at Lincoln Center Theater.

She has collaborated with Richard Greenberg, Charles L. Mee and Sebastian Barry, among many others. Clarke has directed The Magic Flute for the Glimmerglass Opera and the Canadian Opera Company; Cosi fan tutte for Glimmerglass; Tan Dun’s Marco Polo for the Munich Biennale, the Hong-Kong Festival and the New York City Opera; and Gluck’s Orfeo and Euridice for the English National Opera and the New York City Opera. Clarke has choreographed for the Nederlans Dans Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Rambert Dance Company and The Martha Graham Company, among others. In addition to the MacArthur Award, Clarke has received two grants from the Guggenheim Foundation as well as 15 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards and the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award.  She has been the subject of a film for PBS, Martha Clarke, Light and Dark, and her Garden of Earthly Delights was filmed by the BBC.  Her Kaos, based on the works of Luigi Pirandello, was awarded the first Tony Randall Foundation Award and ran at the New York Theater Workshop in 2006.  In 2007, the NEA awarded a grant to re-envision her Garden of Earthly Delights under a program dedicated to the remounting of American masterworks. 

Garden of Earthly Delights is produced by Alan Schuster, Martin Davis, Davo Entertainment LLC and Margaret Cotter in association with Barbara Foy.  Currently, Garden of Earthly Delights is playing at The Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ (September 3-14).

Garden of Earthly Delights will play at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane between Sixth Avenue & MacDougal Street).  Schedule: Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 7:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 PM.  Tickets will be available through www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at (212) 307-4100, or at the Minetta Lane Box Office starting October 4 (1:00 – 6:00 PM daily, closed Mondays).  Preview tickets are available for $25.00.  Post-opening tickets are $37.50 - $59.50 with premium seats available for $65.

For more information, visit www.GardenofEarthlyDelightsNYC.com

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