FROM DAWN TILL NIGHT Plays The 4th Annual undergroundzero festival 7/21-25

From Dawn till Night (The Earth is Uninhabitable like the Moon) is a multimedia investigation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 film In A Year With 13 Moons. In this apocalyptical tale of identity, love and death, a man woman reevaluates his her place in the world as the past closes in and the quest for humanity becomes increasingly difficult. Following her adaptations of Beware of a Holy Whore and The Third Generation (3! at last year's undergroundzero festival), Dangerous Ground's director Doris Mirescu concludes her Fassbinder trilogy with an ode to emotional disarray and cosmological swirls.

WITH Jennifer Blair- Bianco, Tonia Chauvet, Kira Davies, Gene Gallerano, Gayle Greene, David Holmes, Lonetta Maier, Ilana Ozernoy, Jorge Rubio

Conceived, Designed and Directed by Doris Mirescu

Assistant Director/ Live Editing Patrick Flynn

Live Camera Gene Gallerano

Art Direction Doris Mirescu/ Roxie Kratt

Technical Director/ Screens/ Sound Marshall Miller

Video Set-Up Joe Trammell
FROM DAWN TILL NIGHT will run July 21 & 23 @ 9pm, July 22 @ 7pm, July 24 & 25 @ 5pm

as part of the 4th Annual undergroundzero festival at Performance Space 122 (150 1st Avenue at 9th Street). Tickets ($20) may be purchased online at www.PS122.org or via phone at (212) 352-3101.

Doris Mirescu (Director) is a Romanian born freelance director and writer. She is also the founder of New York based theatre company Dangerous Ground. Her most recent productions include John Cassavetes' Husbands (Under the Radar festival at The Public Theater) and 3!, a multimedia experiment based on Fassbinder's 1979 film The Third Generation (PS122 as part of the undergroundzero festival- winner of the 2009 undergroundzero "Best Production" Award). She directed Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore at the Visual Arts Theatre, Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, Madness of Day by Maurice Blanchot and Neil LaBute's The Distance from Here, all at Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory. She also directed the American Premiere of Paul Solomon's Aching to go Home at the Epic Center Theatre (Kalamazoo) and Battle of Black and Dogs by Bernard-Marie Koltès as part of Koltès New York 2003, a festival which she also produced (Ohio Theater). Directing credits include Story of Rats, her adaptation of works by French writer Georges Bataille (Chashama) and the European Premiere of Les Nuits Sans Lune by French playwright Véronique Olmi (Parc de La Villette, Paris). Other New York credits include: Silence of Snow (Soho Rep) and Cocteau's The Handsome Hunk. Ms. Mirescu was the assistant director of French director Brigitte Jaques, with whom she worked on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (La Comédie, Geneva, Switzerland) and Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost (Western Michigan University) and assisted Mr. Andrei Serban on Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva. Ms. Mirescu was four times the recipient of Etant Donnés, the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. She holds a Summa Cum Laude Master of Arts in French Literature from Paris-IV Sorbonne as well as an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University. She has taught Advanced Acting and Directing at The School of Visual Arts, worked as a theatre and film critic for the Swiss magazine Scènes and as a translator/interpreter for Lincoln Center Theater, the Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier and the French Cultural Services in New York. She is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She is also a member of The Actors Studio Playwright and Director's Workshop.

DANGEROUS GROUND creates multimedia theatre. With each production it seeks to discover the nomadic region where bodies, images, sounds and words collide and where the theatrical space is the limit of utmost danger. Dangerous Ground Productions was founded in May 2001 by director Doris Mirescu. Permanent members are Crichton Atkinson, Patrick Flynn, Francis Oberle, and Mark Lechner and Ilana Ozernoy. Dangerous Ground has created multimedia works in New York City and abroad, including adaptations of John Cassavetes' Husbands (Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater), Fassbinder's Beware of A Holy Whore and The Third Generation (3!, winner of the 2009 undergroundzero "Best Production" Award), Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, as well as Maurice Blanchot's Madness of Day, Neil LaBute's The Distance from Here and Koltès' Battle of Black and Dogs.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982) was a German film and stage director, screenwriter, and actor. Many filmmakers and critics consider him to be the chief architect of the New German Cinema movement of the 1960's. In a career that lasted merely fifteen years, Fassbinder had completed 40 feature films, two television series, 24 stage productions, and countless essays and plays. Along with editing many of his films, usually under the pseudonym ‘Franz Walsch', he also photographed two of his most intimate and personal projects (1978's In a Year of 13 Moons and 1979's The Third Generation). Fassbinder's work continuously pushed against the notion of conventional narrative, generating endless controversy and yet creating some of the most extraordinarily innovative and overtly political films of the 20th century.

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