Theatre Y is pleased to announce the presentation of FATELESSNESS at the Chopin Theatre beginning Thursday, March 30, 2017 for a 12-show run through Sunday, April 16, 2017. In development since late 2015, Fatelessness is a physical score set to a radio play adapted by Andràs Visky and Adam Boncz from the novel Fatelessness by Imre Kertész. The semi-autobiographical story is told through a first-person narrative with a dance accompaniment and describes a Hungarian teenager’s life in the Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz camps during the Holocaust.
“This piece is both written and adapted by survivors of concentration camps and a communist prison camp, and is a powerful account of the struggle to survive as told through the eyes of a brutally honest teenage boy,” said Melissa Lorraine, director of Fatelessness and artistic director of Theatre Y. “However, it is more than a Holocaust story, it is a universal tale of how humans when pushed beyond their capacity, often find a resilience that while profound is also in itself disturbing. It’s a powerful story that needs to be told, needs to be heard and needs to be experienced – today more than ever.”
Fatelessness features Michael Doonan (Voice) and Benjamin Holliday Wardell (Dance), and is directed by Melissa Lorraine with the sound design of Kimberly Sutton. Doonan has attended the Stanislavski School at Harvard University and participated in Atelier at The Grotowski Institute. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of California at Irvine and has taught acting and movement at The University of California, Irvine and The University of Illinois, Chicago. Wardell is the founder and creative director of The Cambrians. His career began with The Cincinnati Ballet, where he achieved the rank of soloist before moving to San Francisco to dance with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. Wardell has also worked with Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance, toured internationally with Aszure Barton and Artists, created work with Ron de Jesus Dance and has been an ensemble member of Lucky Plush Productions since late 2011.
Featuring Benjamin Holliday Wardell and Michael Doonan
Directed by Melissa Lorraine
Sound Design by Kimberly Sutton
Assistant Directed by Aileen McGroddy
Dramaturgy by Dan Christmann
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVG2bZDiCq0
Performance Details:
Location: Chopin Theatre: 1543 W Division, Chicago, IL 60642
Performances: Thur-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 4pm / March 30-April 16, 2017
General tickets are $20, Student/Senior tickets are $15
For details and more information visit Theatre-Y.com or [email protected]
Chopin: 773-278-1500 or Theatre Y: 708-209-0183
About Theatre-Y
Theatre Y was founded in 2006, by actor Melissa Lorraine and director Christopher Markle. The company is steeped in the theatrical traditions of Eastern Europe and is dedicated to the international laboratory to investigative theatrical work with an ever-diversifying group of collaborators from many lands. Theatre Y creates poetic and physical theater, mines the contradictions of the human experience, and challenges audiences to find universally shared meaning. For more information visit www.theatre-y.com.
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