Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre “Twelfth Night”

North American Fall Tour 2003

“Bliss, sheer bliss” “I can think of no better way of starting the British summer”

The Daily Telegraph UCLA Live, Los Angeles October 22 8pm October 23 8pm October 24 8pm October 25 2pm, 8pm October 26 1pm, 7pm October 28 8pm October 29 9pm October 30 8pm October 31 8pm November 1 2pm, 8pm November 2 1pm, 7pm Minneapolis Guthrie World Stage Series November 6 10.30am, 7.30pm November 7 7.30pm November 8 1pm, 7.30pm November 9 1pm Theater Square, Pittsburgh November 12 7.30pm November 13 11am, 7.30pm November 14 7.30pm November 15 1pm, 7.30pm November 16 1pm University Musical Society, Michigan November 18 8pm November 19 8pm November20 8pm November 21 8pm November 22 2pm, 8pm November 23 1pm, 8pm Chicago Shakespeare Theater November 26 2pm, 7.30pm November 28 2pm, 8pm November 29 2pm, 8pm November 30 2pm December 2 7.30pm December 3 2pm, 7.30pm December 4 7.30pm December 5 8pm December 6 2pm, 8pm December 7 2pm December 9 7.30pm December 10 2pm, 7.30pm December 11 7.30pm December 12 8pm December 13 2pm, 8pm December 14 2pm

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE ON TOUR

In fall 2011 Shakespeare’s Globe brings its unique On Tour program to the US, reviving a hit from summers 2009 and 2010: The Comedy of Errors. The travelling players breathe new life into one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies with a stripped down style, delivering theatre at its bawdy, brilliant best. Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour reinvents Elizabethan touring theatre for the 21st century. Using a stage design inspired by images from the time, the Globe’s travelling players recreate all the fun and excitement of early theatre. Just as with the old King’s Men, they don’t perform in theatres but in a plethora of picturesque and historically resonant settings.

“The Globe was born out of a touring company culture, and that culture remained vital to it while it flourished. We are delighted to be exploring again the tradition of taking Shakespeare into non-theatrical spaces.”

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe

FROM THE AUDIENCES:

‘The performance is one I will never forget’

….Rebecca Day, Leeds Castle, Kent.

‘It was truly fabulous. So stimulating, it almost changes you as a person’

Sylvia Hope, Richmond, Yorks. FROM THE PRESS:

“…bursting with physical energy and touching realism, passion, intelligence and promise.”

The Scotsman

“… with tight, fluent team-work and much nifty doubling, the play is brought to muscular life by just eight actors.”

The Independent

FROM THE VENUES:

“An unmitigated success!”

Victoria Wallace, Managing Director of Leeds Castle

“We really enjoyed having [the show] at Lydiard Park. Fantastic performance and lots of excellent feedback from the audience.”

Emma Valentine, Lydiard Park, Swindon

ABOUT THE PLAY

Take one pair of estranged twins (both called Antipholus) and one pair of twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery and you have the chief ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is given gold in the street and invited to dinner by a woman who thinks she’s his wife; the other is barred from his own house and rebuffed by his jeweller. Caught in between, the Dromios are soundly beaten for disobeying each other’s orders. Fast-paced, hilarious and seemingly irreverent, the young William Shakespeare explores themes in this comedy that recur again and again in his later work; mistaken identity, coincidence and the importance of family.

Available for US touring November/December 2011

FRANCESCA GAGNON

the Voice of Alegria

Alegria: a state of mood, a state of mind, Spanish for ‘joy’....... Francesca Gagnon - the Voice of Alegria is a comprehensive work for symphony orchestra that draws from several Cirque du Soleil productions including Alegria, Cortéo, Kà, Quidam, Saltimbanco and Delirium that evoke the essence and most memorable moments of Cirque du Soleil. One of the many elements that sets CIRQUE DU SOLEIL apart ... is its MUSIC.
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, CA If CIRQUE DU SOLEIL is indeed the eighth wonder of the world, GAGNON is the otherworldly herald who made everyone notice. ENTERTAINMENT TODAY, Los Angeles Francesca Gagnon has a very particular voice, powerful, raucous, bewitching ; a virtuosic performance. A must hear, a medley of Janis Joplin and Edith Piaf. LA PRESSE (Montréal, QC)

This exciting project brings together Franz Osten's finest, most accomplished and stunningly beautiful Indian silent film from 1929, 'A Throw of Dice' with British Asian NitinSawhney, one of Great Britain’s most influential and versatile creative music talents. The film has not been on general release in over 70 years and is an undiscovered treasure from the British Film Institute Archives. Based on the pivotal gambling episode from the Mahabharata, 'A Throw of Dice' is a love story that tells the tale of Ranjit and the nefarious Sohan, two kings with a passion for gambling and for the same woman, Sunita. The HD quality film will be projected behind a symphony orchestra, with the addition of a downstage ‘band’ consisting of piano and celesta (to be played by the composer, Nitin Sawhney), tabla, flutes and vocalists. The orchestra can be a resident orchestra or a touring orchestra depending on the venue. The stage will be blacked out to further enhance the collaboration of film and music (see image below). Complete sound and light plots are provided to ensure the high quality of auditory and visual experience.Technical Rider is available with full instrumentation and projection requirements. It is possible to present this project in an outdoors venue as was produced in London’s Trafalgar Square to huge acclaim in August 2007 with the London Symphony Orchestra.An enraptured audience of 10,000 people attended. London’s Barbican Center – April 2006   “Behind the stage was a screen, showing the 1929 German-Indian movie A Throw of Dice … In front of the screen were the massed ranks of the LSO, with conductor Stephen Hussey wearing headphones to keep the orchestra in sync. In front of them were Sawhney himself, wearing a long black tunic and playing keyboards, and members of his band on anything from tablas to guitar.” “Osten's film was an engaging, and often charming early epic, making use of massed crowd scenes and an array of exotic animals, from tigers to elephants to camels. Nitin's score involved equal confidence and variety, constantly changing mood and pace, switching from delicate Indian scat vocals to sweeping strings, or from guitar to sudden stirring brass. It was, by necessity, a sometimes frantic technical exercise, but there were passages in which he had time to develop his themes, using the Indian-influenced flute playing of Ashwin Srinivasan and the tabla percussion of Aref Durvesh against the enthusiastic work of the LSO, with stirring, Celtic-sounding melodies added into the mix. “This was great film music … it showed how the increasingly assured Sawhney is breaking down the barriers between pop, classical and world music.” The Guardian Trafalgar Square – August 2007   “Sawhney's score for A Throw of the Dice is fusion at its best - meaning that he has blended Asian-style soloists so effortlessly with the sounds of a symphony orchestra that you cease to notice anything unusual is happening. Sawhney has a real talent. It will be fascinating to watch what else he does with it.” Julian Lloyd Webber – Telegraph

KNOTS by COISCÉIM"

"This exhilarating devised production, directed by Liam Steel, is the most accomplished to date...the performers astound in their ability to perform complex choreography while acting with complete emotional commitment." Karen Fricker, The Guardian

COISCÉIM, under their artistic director David Bolger, has been creating and presenting cutting-edge and innovative contemporary dance since 1995 and has established itself as the premier dance company in Ireland. The name, from the Irish word for footstep is pronounced ‘Kush Came”. In 2005, Bolger invited the ex-DV8 performer and co-creator/co-director of STAN WON’T DANCE, Liam Steel, to direct KNOTS based on the writings of R.D. Laing, the radical Scottish pyschoanalyst. What emerged was an award-winning full-evening (70 min) work bursting with high-octane choreography in a show which is often brutal, touching and at times hilarious.Six performers struggle with the inherent tangle that is the complexity of human relationships. In Laing’s book “Knots” the dynamic twists, turns and convolutions in our relationships are played out in dialogue scenarios. The director and cast used these scenarios as their starting point to create a work which fuses text and movement to the same ground-breaking effect as Steel’s SINNER. KNOTS was an immediate and enormous success with both the public and the critics, winning “Best Production Dublin Fringe Festival 2005”.

Boasting vigorous talent and an impressive, European-style repertory, this exhilaratingly fine company, founded only three years ago, has already made a splash in the contemporary ballet scene. Young, hip, and cutting-edge, New York’s Cedar Lake is on the rise! Featuring the works of recognized, emerging choreographers, this ensemble exhibits daring and athletic movement, while integrating ballet with contemporary and popular dance styles. Cedar Lake’s mission to join the ranks of America's leading contemporary ballet companies is fast becoming both a reality and a thrilling dance adventure audiences are passionately embracing. Presenting an innovative and modern repertoire that is committed to the talent of recognized and emerging choreographers, the captivating company enthusiastically presents its daring athleticism and extraordinary visual excitement whenever taking the stage. Cedar Lake’s choreographic journey plays with pure movement – sharply sculpted – with constant contrasts between live action and multi-media visuals. Explosive dancing, provocative imagery, exhilarating contemporary musical collaborations and exceptional dance technique are just a few of the thrilling elements that are swiftly defining the distinct and stimulating personality of this vibrant young company.

“you can almost hear the sensual static as the pair loop and curve,

like two magnets, resisting each other then snapping tight.”

Evening Standard, UK, 19/09/08

“If we had to say in one word what we wish for our creation In-I, we would choose the word ‘dare’. If we could add two more, we would definitely choose: ‘the new’. Daring the new is why we said yes to each other. But can we reach each other? Can we try and get close? Conflicts, fear, needs and hopes can be walls that we have to face. However, in between two people, there’s a third, the space in between the two, and it is in the search for the third that we discover who we really are. If the Greeks had 14 words to describe different ways of loving, how many do we experience?” Juliette Binoche & Akram Khan May 2008 Co-directed and performed by Juliette Binoche & Akram Khan Set Designer Anish Kapoor Composer Philip Sheppard Lighting Designer Michael Hulls Costume Designer Kei Ito Dramaturge Guy Cools Rehearsal Director/Dance Coach (Juliette Binoche) Su-Man Hsu Producer Farooq Chaudhry Juliette BinocheAn international star of extraordinary, almost otherworldly beauty, French actress Juliette Binoche was born in Paris. The daughter of a sculptor/theater director and an actress, Binoche studied acting at the National School of Dramatic Art of Paris. Following graduation, she followed her mother's footsteps and became a stage actress, occasionally taking small parts in French feature films. Binoche first earned recognition in 1985 for playing a modernized, teenaged version of the Virgin Mary in Jean-Luc Godard's controversial "Je Vous Salue, Marie/Hail Mary." The actress became a bona fide French star the same year with an acclaimed performance in André Téchiné's "Rendez-Vous." And though the darling of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Binoche gained true international acclaim when she played Tereza in Philip Kaufman's "The Unbearable Lightness of Bein" in 1988. Binoche was cast in a lead role in filmmaker Leos Carax's chilling "Mauvais Sang/Bad Blood." Binoche appeared in his "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf," a film they began in 1988 finish in 1991. Binoche had great success starring opposite Jeremy Irons in "Louis Malle's Damage" (1992). The same year, the actress appeared with future English Patient co-star Ralph Fiennes in a new film version of "Wuthering Heights," and followed that with the lead role in Krzysztof Kieslowski's “Blue.” (She also appeared briefly in the trilogy's other installments, "Red” and “White"). Binoche returned in 1995 with "Le Hussard sur le Toit/The Horseman on the Roof." In 1996, she earned further international recognition with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar (as well as a host of other awards) for her role in "The English Patient." Returning to her native France amidst a golden haze of critical acclaim, Binoche appeared in the same year's "Un Divan a New York," a romantic comedy in which she starred opposite William Hurt. In 1998, she again collaborated with director Téchiné, this time on the romantic drama "Alice et Martin." Revered as near royalty by the French press (who often simply refer to her a La Binoche) and a beloved star worldwide, Binoche's remarkable second wind found her popularity soaring and her screen presence more powerful than ever. Binoche's daring and intense performance as 19th century literary icon George Sand in the drama "Children of the Century" indeed impressed audiences and critics. Binoche was cast in "The Widow of Saint-Pierre" The redemption-themed drama perform smashingly at the international box-office and also found it's star earning a Cesar nomination for Best Actress. A teaming with filmmaker Michael Haneke resulted in the intersecting lives drama "Code Unknown" (2000). Binoche gave a captivating performance that same year in the art-house hit "Chocolat." Cast as the free-spirited owner of a chocolate shop located in a small French town, the dedicated actress actually prepared for the role by learning to make chocolate at a popular Paris sweet shop. The film was an international runaway hit, and the beloved starlet was nominated for Best Actress awards across the globe. Following a lighthearted performance opposite French icon Jean Reno in the romantic comedy "Jet Lag," Binoche most recently appeared with American star Samuel L. Jackson in director John Boorman's political oriented drama "In My Country." Juliette can be seen next in "Bee Season" with Richard Gere slated for a 2005 release.She is currently filming five new projects including Anthony Minghella’s, “Breaking and Entering,” opposite Jude Law; Michael Haneke’s, “Cache;” Abel Ferrara’s, “Mary,” opposite Matthew Modine and Forest Witaker; and “Quelques jours en Septembre,” opposite John Turturro. Juliette currently lives in France with her two children. Akram Khan is one of the most acclaimed choreographer of his generation working in Britain today. Born in London into a family of Bangladeshi origin in 1974, he began dancing at the age of seven. He studied with the great Kathak dancer and teacher Sri Pratap Pawar, later becoming his disciple. He began his stage career at the age of 14, when he was cast in Peter Brook’s legendary production of Mahabharata, touring the world between 1987 and 1989 and appearing in the televised version of the play broadcast in 1988. Following later studies in contemporary dance and a period working with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Brussels based X-Group project, he began presenting solo performances of his work in the 1990s, maintaining his commitment to the classical kathak repertoire as well as modern work. Among his best-known solo pieces are: Polaroid Feet (2001), Ronin (2003) and Third Catalogue (2005). In August 2000, he launched his own company, which has provided him with a platform for innovation and an increasingly diverse range of work evolved in collaboration with artists from other disciplines, ranging across theatre, film, visual arts, music and literature. Among his most notable company works are Kaash (2002) a collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor and composer Nitin Sawhney, ma (2004), created for seven dancers, four musicians and accompanied by a text by acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi, for which he received a South Bank Show Award (2005); zero degrees (2005), a collaboration with dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, sculptor Antony Gormley and composer Nitin Sawhney, premiered at Sadler’s Wells. As Choreographer-in-Residence and later as an Associate Artist at the South Bank Centre, he presented a recital with Pandit Birju Maharaj and Sri Pratap Pawar; and A God of Small Tales, a piece for mature women for which he again collaborated with writer, Hanif Kureishi. He remained an Associate Artist at the South Bank Centre until April 2005, the first non-musician to be afforded this status, and is currently an Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells. In 2007, he will be touring to Australia, Japan, France, Hong Kong, South Korea, USA, Netherlands, Singapore, Luxembourg, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Finland, Argentina, Taiwan, Germany, Italy and Belgium. One of his most recent projects is Variations, a collaboration with London Sinfonietta to celebrate the 70th birthday of Steve Reich, which premiered in Birmingham in March 2006, and tour to Europe and America later this year. The other is Sacred Monsters, a major new work featuring ballerina Sylvie Guillem, with additional choreography by Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwai Min, which premiered at Sadler’s Wells in September 2006. More recently, he made a new work, Lost Shadows, as guest choreographer, for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Taiwan’s first contemporary dance company, which premiered in Taiwan in March 2007. Akram Khan was also invited by Kylie Minogue in summer 2006 to choreograph a section of her new Showgirl concert, which opened in Australia in November 2006, and toured to the UK (London and Manchester) in January 2007. Akram Khan has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jerwood Foundation Choreography Award (2000); ‘Outstanding Newcomer to Dance Award’ from both the Dance Critics' Circle (2000) and Time Out Live (2000); ‘Best Modern Choreography’ from the Dance Critics' Circle (2002); the International Movimentos Tanzpreis (2004) for ‘Most Promising Newcomer in Dance’, a South Bank Show Award (2005) and was nominated for a Nijinsky Award for Best Newcomer (2002).More recently, he was awarded the 2005 Critics' Circle National Dance Awards for Outstanding Male or Female Artist (modern). And Zero Degrees - Akram Khan/ Sidi Larbi Cherckaoui/ Antony Gormley/ Nitin Sawnhey - was nominated for the 2006 Laurence Olivier Awards (Best New Dance Production). In 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from De Montfort University for his contribution to the UK arts community, and was awarded an MBE for his services to Dance in 2005.

Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay in 1954 and has lived in London since the early 70’s when he studied at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art Design. Over the past twenty years Anish Kapoor has exhibited extensively in London and all over the world. His solo shows have included venues such as Kunsthalle Basel, Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Reina Sofia in Madrid and CAPC in Bordeaux. He has also participated internationally in many group shows including the Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Royal Academy and Serpentine Gallery in London, Documenta IX in Kassel, Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Jeu de Paume and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Anish Kapoor was awarded the ‘Premio Duemila’ at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize Award in 1991 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute in 1997 and a CBE in 2003. He is represented by the Lisson Gallery, London, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York and Galleria Continua and Galleria Massimo Minini, Italy.

Media

thelondonpaper, UK

19/09/08

“this meditation on love and obsession… is straightforward, honest and full of humour…The dancing is the star of the show; Khan is incredible, throwing himself against walls, the floor, and Binoche…displaying a confident physicality and looking as if she is having a ball...By the end (it) achieves exactly what they set out to do.”

whatsonstage, UK

19/09/08

“Catch the ever luminous La Binoche in this intriguing piece…

an exploration, through words, music and dance, of love.”

Binoche’s strength is…in her constant habitation of the character from

vulnerable teenager to ferocious lover. Expression floods her whole form

and reaches out to us; something you just can’t train for.”

“With a vital wall Anish Kapoor makes a deceptively simple set that is

stunningly lit by Michael Hulls, and Philip Shepphard’s fusion soundtrack is

excellent; ebbing and flowing but never intrusive, shadowing the

dancing tides of submission, dominance, violence and affection.”

Evening Standard, UK

19/09/08

“you can almost hear the sensual static as the pair loop and curve,

like two magnets, resisting each other then snapping tight.”

The Stage, UK

19/09/08

”It’s clear from the onset that Binoche moves well…her disregard for

polish is endearing, and her overall performance, charming.”

Times Online, UK

22/09/08

“Binoche…more than holds her own alongside the muscular, contained

whirlwind that Khan becomes when in motion. Spinning, striding and swiping at

her partner or the air, she invests herself in the moment with an emotional daring

many trained dancers lack.”

Financial Times, UK

21/9/08

“There is no better conveyer of emotional fragitility, and to see (Binoche) next to

Khan’s effortless command of his moves introduced a new, possibly unintended, dynamic into the relationship.”

“Khan’s excellence as a dancer was highlighted by a striking solo in which he

twirled and spun on the spot with such velocity that he recalled the blurred,

tortured figure of a Francis Bacon painting.”

Sunday Times, UK

28/9/08

“Binoche’s physical achievement is incredible: Khan is a master mover,

but she keeps pace. She matches her steps to his bullish pace, playfully

disrupting his determined patterns.”

“The stunning design, by the aritist Anish Kapoor and the lighting maven

Michael Hulls, creates a high, moving wall, drenched in colour:

intense saffron and violet, twilight mauve, bruised rose.”

“It’s marvellous to observe (Binoche’s) impulsive appetite here, to catch the

triumph in her secret smile…For Khan too, the piece marks a leap…

The show scuds on their joint magnetism, her tomboy energy squaring up

to his trim, masculine precision…the duo’s dedication is palpable.”

Il Messaggero, Rome

17/11/08

“…(Khan) offered a varied and firm composition…intense, pregnant with associations…blending text with visual art, which together build up the full score.”

“(Binoche) dances as a human being who found in itself the eternal dancing ‘self’,

the one which in the Indian tradition, through Shiva, generated the world...”

  “Let me tell you a story,” says Akram Khan in seductive tones well into his extraordinary new work, Ma. But the huge audience is captivated before hearing a word of it. The opening image has already spoken volumes; Faheem Mazhar, barely visible in the darkness, suspended upside down, a stream of evocative Sufi song pouring from his mouth.”The Independent “Khan and six dancers spiral and whip through space like human rotary blades…MA feels like a complete and tightly constructed experience. ” - The Times (London) “One essential point about Khan is that, at the age of 30, he’s still mapping out what routes are open to him as a choreographer; another is that he’s already won himself an audience that will follow avidly, wherever he chooses to go.” The Guardian Following the critical and audience success of “KAASH” which toured throughout the world, Akram Khan will return to North America with a company of eight dancers, three musicians (voice, percussion and cello), text by Hanif Kureishi and Arundhati Roy, original score by Riccardo Nova and recorded music by Ictus Ensemble in a new full-length work ‘MA’.

In June 2006 Akram Khan was awarded an MBE for his services to the UK dance community

Since July 2005, Akram Khan is an Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Lincoln Center, Great Performers presents ‘MA’ at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York April 26, 28 & 29, 2006 Danse Danse/ LOMA presents ‘Ma” at Theatre Maisonneuve, Montreal May 3, 4, 5 & 6, 2006 Co– producers The South Bank Centre, Théâtre de la Ville, Singapore Arts Festival, Romaeuropa Festival 2004, Arts Centre Vooruit, Tanzhaus nrw- Dusseldorf, Holland Festival, Göteborg Dance and Theatre Festival, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Measure for Measure

“Yet whereas some bellow and others whisper; these underwhelm and those overact, Rylance, as Duke Vincentio, pitches it cleverly.  He knows when a little broad humour and stage play will not go amiss, but never allows the focus to wander from the essential dilemma of a lax leader witnessing the unfortunate sequence of events that dominoes outwards from his leniency.” – The Evening Standard “This is one of Shakespeare’s strangest and most successful works, a farce which is also a meditation on death, a romantic comedy about sexual repression.  Every detail of this production does full justice to the text.  And no one objects that the Globe represents the greatest feat of theatrical nostalgia ever attempted.  Instead you wonder how you ever did without it.” – The Spectator “Rylance is very funny and appealing in his interpretation of the Duke as a lonely, amiable klutz, jumpy with embarrassment at his own stratagems.” – The Independent VENUES Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis – October 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, November 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 2005 www.guthrietheater.org Freud Playhouse, UCLA, Los Angeles – November 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 2005 www.uclalive.org Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – November 30, December 1, 2, 3, 4, 2005 www.pennpresents.org O’Reilly Theatre, (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust), Pittsburgh – December 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2005 www.phharts.org St Ann’s Warehouse, (Theatre for a New Audience, Arts at St Ann’s in association with 2Luck Concepts), - Dec 20, 2005 – Jan 1, 2006 www.artsatstanns.org