JUNE 11 through JULY 31
An Odyssey Theatre & Evidence Room co-production
“ Intricate, clever and, solidly entertaining.” –NY Times
Len Jenkin’s noir fantasy, MARGO VEIL: an entertainment
is a cross between David Lynch and a wacky comedy
fi lled with music and gracefully absurd dancing.
Margo Veil is a young actress whose strange adventures
lead her into an ever-changing landscape of dream and reality.
An ensemble cast of four women and four men each
play a number of parts from second-rate theatrical agents
and would-be actresses to world renowned archaeologists
and train baggage masters.
Opens June, 2011.
Lorca’s 1933 tragedy will get a powerful and
macabre retelling in Tanya Ronder’s bold
and poetic new translation directed by Jon
Lawrence Rivera. This very human story of
long-standing feuds between families, nuptials,
infi delity, murder, and the prevalence of gang
warfare together with Lorca’s gorgeous poetry
and his inclusion of vengeful supernatural
forces make this piece a theatrical standout.
AUGUST 20 through OCTOBER 9
Who said religion can’t be funny? Not playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer, whose End Days makes its Los Angeles premiere directed by Lisa James. End Days is a comedy about one family’s adventure to find faith and renewal.
Opens September 2011
Engrossing and menacing, Way to Heaven, is inspired by the true story of the elaborate deception that took place at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 Germany. In order to fool international Red Cross inspectors, the Nazis constructed a fake village to quell extermination rumors. Juan Mayorga’s startlingly original play begins with the reminiscences of one inspector assigned to evaluate this “village.” The play leaps back in time to show the creation and rehearsal of a very unusual and disturbing deceit, one in which the Jewish prisoners are assigned roles and given lines to perform to convince visitors of their
peaceful and happy existence.
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WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
Opens October 29, 2011
English writer Joe Orton’s uses riotous farce rife with fallen trousers, sexual indiscretions, mistaken identities and lewd to explore psychiatry, religion, marriage, government, definitions of gender and even simple language. “By the time he reaches his breathless conclusion, Orton has transported us to a Cloudcuckooland of his own fiercely imagined invention. It's a place where girls have switched identities (and wardrobes) with boys, yes can mean no, and inmates are freely running the asylum. Two hours of nonstop laughter.” – NY Timesby Peter Handke
Opens September 2011
For a moment, a bright, empty town square.
And then a fi gure darts across, and another
and another – businesspeople, roller-bladers,
a cowboy, several street-sweepers, a
half dressed bride, a fi lm crew, a line of old
men, a tourist, a beauty in a mirrored dress,
Abraham and Isaac, a family of refugees, a
fool – more and more people. Surprising,
funny, fast and physical, this is theatre to
set the imagination on fire.
Opens in 2012
Directed by Ron Sossi
A “cause celebre” in a number of European
theatres, the OTE brings a unique experiment
to its own stages. What happens in an
intermittently dark theatre with audience
intimately confronted by actors, constantly
changing spatial and sound perspectives, utilizing
voice, music and sound... all in the dark
and anticipating the ever present potential of
the unexpected? A wonderful “tickle” of the
audience’s capacity for imagination and fantasy
in a two-evening festival, featuring such
possibilities as BLACK COMEDY by Peter
Shaffer, a GREEK CLASSIC, Brecht/Weill’s
LINDBERG’S FLIGHT and numerous others.
SNEAK PEEK AT POSSIBLE PROJECTS IN 2012
The Samuel Beckett classic, featuring two
LA WEEKLY Best Performance-nominated
actors from the OTE’s award-winning THE
ARSONISTS (Beth Hogan, Norbert Weisser)
with Scott Paulin and Alan Abelew.
A scintillating new adaptation of Dostoevsky’s
masterpiece by writers Marlyn Campbell and Curt
Columbus.
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