| Red Bull Theater Announces Hispanic Golden Age Classics The Beast Of Hungary by Lope de Vega, Tuesday Sept 17 live in person & simulcast livestream | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:01 pm EDT 09/09/24 | |
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| Red Bull Theater Announces Hispanic Golden Age Classics The Beast Of Hungary by Lope de Vega Directed by Nadia Guevara Featuring b, Shirine Babb, Jimonn Cole, Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Jill Durso, Zachary Fine, Santino Fontana, Ismenia Mendes, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Sean Runnette, Han Van Sciver, and Chauncy Thomas. Live In Person Tuesday September 17th at Sheen Center Shiner Theatre with Simulcast Livestream RED BULL THEATER (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director; Martin Giannini, Executive Director) today announced details of its latest exploration of Hispanic Golden Age Classics: the Revelation Reading of The Beast Of Hungary (El animal de Hungría, 1617) by Lope de Vega. This Hispanic classic gets a new translation by the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance. Hispanic Golden Age Classics is an initiative of Red Bull Theater and Diversifying the Classics | UCLA. This series is supported by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and the Consulate General of Spain New York. This reading is produced in partnership with UCLA's Diversifying the Classics Initiative as a part of the 2024 LA Escena Festival. This is a world premiere English translation of the classic play about a queen who is forced into the wilderness by her power-hungry sister. The fallen queen steals her niece and raises her as a feral girl, who then encounters human society for the first time when she grows up and falls in love. With its daring vision of female sexuality, and strong questioning of our ideas about civilization and its limits, this beast is a daring proto-feminist comedy. Lope de Vega's The Beast of Hungary takes the audience on a wild journey, from the forests of Hungary to the courts of kings. With humor and pathos, the play explores eternal questions about justice, loyalty, and what makes us "human"—in all our frailty and nobility. The extremes of the human heart are on display, from murderous jealousy to the first buddings of young love, making us question what truly separates man from beast. The live in-person performance, at Sheen Center Shiner Theatre, will premiere on Tuesday September 17th at 7:30 PM. There will also be a simulcast livestream at that time. A recording will be available from Wednesday September 18th (7:30 PM ET) until Monday September 23rd at 11:59 PM ET. Open captions will be available from Thursday September 19th (7:30 PM). For tickets visit redbulltheater.com/the-beast-of-hungary. Nadia Guevara directs a cast that features b (Off-Broadway: Toros - Second Stage Theater, American (Tele)visions - New York Theatre Workshop; "WeCrashed" opposite Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto - Apple TV+; "Let The Right One In" – Showtime; "Witch Mountain" - Disney+), Shirine Babb (most recently seen on Broadway in A Beautiful Noise; other Broadway: The Piano Lesson, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Macbeth); Jimonn Cole (black odyssey - Classic Stage Company; Our Lady of 121st Street, Iphigenia 2.0 - Signature Theatre; X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation - The Acting Company; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - New York Theatre Workshop/The Acting Company); Darryl Gene Daughtry, Jr. (Broadway: The Inheritance; Off-Broadway: Coriolanus - Public Theater/Delacorte); Jill Durso (Off -Broadway: Einstein - The Theater at St. Clements); Zachary Fine (Broadway: China Doll with Al Pacino; Off-Broadway: Arden of Faversham, Coriolanus - Red Bull Theater; Fashions For Men - Mint Theater); Santino Fontana (for Red Bull Theater: Your Own Thing; Tootsie — Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League nomination; Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella — Tony, Outer Critics Circle nominations; Sons of the Prophet —Lortel Award; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award nominations; The Importance of Being Earnest — Actors Equity/Clarence Derwent Award; Brighton Beach Memoirs — Drama Desk Award; I Can Get It for You Wholesale); Ismenia Mendes (Red Bull Theater's Mac Beth; Marys Seacole - LCT3; The Liar - CSC; Cressida in Troilus & Cressida - NYSF; "Orange Is the New Black"); Maria-Christina Oliveras (Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Amélie, Machinal; Zorba! - Encores!; Pretty Filthy - The Civilians; Here Lies Love, Romeo and Juliet - Public Theater); Sean Runnette (Off-Broadway debut!); Han Van Sciver (for Red Bull Theater: Kit Marlowe; Off-Broadway: An Oxford Man - Manhattan Theater Club, At the Wedding - LCT3); and Chauncy Thomas (Off-Broadway: LaBute New Theater Festival - 59E59 Theater; To Kill a Mockingbird - Bay Street Theatre). The Hispanic Golden Age offers one of the most vibrant theatrical repertoires ever produced. At the same time that England saw the flourishing of Shakespeare on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and in the decades that followed, Spanish-speaking playwrights including Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Ana Caro, Sor Juana, and Calderón de la Barca flourished on the continent and in the New World. Many of the works created during this time have still not been translated into English. Red Bull Theater Artistic Director Jesse Berger elaborates: "Our investigation of Hispanic Golden Age classics has yielded wonderful results over the last few years – fantastic plays that have never before been heard in English, and which are now entering the canon for productions throughout our country and beyond. This year's play, The Beast of Hungary, is no exception. With an incredible plot, and this fantastic cast, it will blow your classical socks off. Join us in person, or online from anywhere in the world!" ABOUT LOPE DE VEGA Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562–1635) is a towering figure of the Spanish Golden Age, a theatrical innovator and prolific author in multiple genres. He is known as a master of the comedia—witty three-act plays popular across the globe-spanning Spanish empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He composed hundreds of plays, in addition to poetry and prose, earning him the name Fénix de los ingenios ("Phoenix of Wits"), as the expression es de Lope ("it's by Lope") became a shorthand for praising quality. In his own time, Lope's fame grew from his prodigious literary talent as well as his colorful biography, Born in Madrid to parents who had migrated to the capital from Spain's northern regions, he saw in his youth the emergence of the urban outdoor corral theaters where he would go on to make his name. Though he took religious orders in 1614, he continued romantic affairs throughout his life which often put him on the wrong side of the law, and left an unknown number of illegitimate children. Sor Marcela de San Félix, Lope's daughter with the actress Micaela de Luján, went on to become a poet and playwright herself, one of many successful female authors of the period, including her fellow literary nun—Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Despite the varied scandals of his life, Lope was a truly successful commercial playwright, who earned income as well as fame through his literary efforts. Today he is best remembered for his work in the comedia form he came to define. After Calderón's Life Is a Dream, Lope's Fuenteovejuna is perhaps the best-known comedia in the English-speaking world, and others such as Peribañez and The Dog in the Manger exemplify the well-constructed Lopean plot. Miguel de Cervantes, his contemporary and rival, may not have meant it entirely as a compliment when he called Lope a "monster of nature" (monstruo de la naturaleza). Yet Lope's prodigious output was fundamental to developing the theater of his age, and to our understanding of it today. The monster of nature left us many gifts ABOUT DIVERSIFYING THE CLASSICS Diversifying the Classics was founded in 2014 to foster awareness and appreciation of Hispanic classical theater in the US. Under the direction of UCLA Professor Barbara Fuchs, scholars, students, and artists work together to promote an expanded vision of the classics that reflects today's diverse audiences. The project has multiple initiatives that support this mission through new translations, adaptations, education, and performance, including the biennial LA Escena theater festival. The Diversifying the Classics | UCLA working group responsible for the translation includes David Chibukhchian, Barbara Fuchs, Isaac Giménez, Saraí Jaramillo, Rachel Kaufman, Robin Kello, Javier Patiño Loira, Aina Soley i Mateu, Laura Muñoz, Diana Echeverria Palencia, Marta Albalá Pelegrín, Victoria Rasbridge, Cristián Reyes, Rhonda Sharrah, Rebecca Smith, Madeline Werner, and Jesslyn Whittell. ABOUT RED BULL THEATER Red Bull Theater, hailed as "the city's gutsiest classical theater" by Time Out New York, brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences, uniting a respect for tradition with a modern sensibility. Named for the rowdy Jacobean playhouse that illegally performed plays in England during the years of Puritan rule, Red Bull Theater is New York City's home for dynamic performances of great plays that stand the test of time. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as its cornerstone, the company also produces new works that are in conversation with the classics. A home for artists, scholars, and students, Red Bull Theater delights and engages the intellect and imagination of audiences, and strives to make its work accessible, diverse, and welcoming to all. We value and practice inclusiveness, equity, and diversity in all of our activities, and are committed to antiracist action. Red Bull Theater believes in the power of great classic stories and plays of heightened language to deepen our understanding of the human condition, in the special ability of live theater to create unique, collective experiences, and in the timeless capacity of classical theater to illuminate the events of our times. Variety agreed, hailing Red Bull's work as: "Proof that classical theater can still be surprising after hundreds of years." Since its debut in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare's Pericles starring Daniel Breaker, Red Bull Theater has served adventurous theatergoers with Off-Broadway productions, Revelation Readings, and the annual Short New Play Festival. The company also offers outreach programs including Shakespeare in Schools bringing professional actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms; Bull Sessions, free post-play discussions with top scholars; and Classical Acting Intensives led by veteran theater professionals. During the pandemic, Red Bull created several new and ongoing programs to serve audiences and artists with our mission: the Red Bull Theater Podcast, Online Readings, Seminars, and more. "The classics-shaking Red Bull Theater," as Time Out NY has called it, has produced 24 Off-Broadway productions and over 200 Revelation Readings of rarely seen classics, serving a community of more than 5,000 artists and providing quality artistic programming to an audience of over 65,000. The company's unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim and has been recognized with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Callaway, Off-Broadway Alliance, and OBIE nominations and Awards. For more information about the Hispanic Golden Age Classics, or any of Red Bull Theater's programs, visit redbulltheater.com. |
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