THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE SEASONS - Goodman Theatre
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE SEASONS - Goodman Theatre
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE SEASONS - Goodman Theatre
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18<br />
2010/2011 Season Productions<br />
In the Owen Bruner <strong>Goodman</strong> <strong>Theatre</strong><br />
JanuarY 27–29, 2011<br />
Belarus free TheaTre’s<br />
BeinG harold<br />
Pinter<br />
AdAPtEd And diRECtEd bY VLadiMir ShChErBan<br />
PRoduCEd bY nikoLai khaLEZin and nataLia koLiada<br />
In an unprecedented artistic event, <strong>Goodman</strong><br />
<strong>Theatre</strong> invited Eastern Europe’s Belarus Free<br />
<strong>Theatre</strong> to Chicago for a limited engagement of<br />
Being Harold Pinter. Presented in partnership<br />
with Northwestern University, the League of<br />
Chicago <strong>Theatre</strong>s and Chicago Shakespeare<br />
Theater, Being Harold Pinter arrived in Chicago<br />
on the heels of its sold-out engagement at<br />
New York’s Under the Radar Festival— in which<br />
the Belarus Free <strong>Theatre</strong> participated after its<br />
members narrowly escaped imprisonment in<br />
their homeland in December 2010.<br />
Hailed as “truly passionate, truly political theater<br />
[that] isn’t just admirable, it has virtues beyond<br />
its relevance and bravery” (The New York Times),<br />
Being Harold Pinter incorporates transcripts from<br />
Belarusian political prisoners with excerpts from<br />
Nobel Prize–winning playwright Harold Pinter’s<br />
lifetime of writings. Belarus Free <strong>Theatre</strong> created<br />
visually striking images with simple means and<br />
underscores the fierceness of Pinter’s words with<br />
the intense physicality of the actors. Being Harold<br />
Pinter blurred the boundaries between art and<br />
reality, delivering a poignant contemporary<br />
commentary on violence, oppression, freedom<br />
and human dignity.<br />
(Left) Aleh sidorchyk, dzianis tarasenka and Pavel haradnitski. (Right) Maryna Yurevich, Yana Rusakevich and nikolai Khalezin. Photos of Being Harold Pinter by Liz Lauren.
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