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Olivier Cadiot’s poetry is explosive. It explodes his characters’ entire personalities; their inner
thoughts and desires. And it explodes language. Cadiot’s most recurrent figure, loosely based
on Robinson Crusoe, is a man grappling to make sense of the world around him. He is alone
on an island of made-up rules. He writes his own reality, makes up a love affair, and creates
heroic scenarios. And he desperately tries to stay sane by busying himself with all sorts of
apparently meaningless tasks. He makes lists, spies on people, and generally creates order
out of the hodgepodge of what he sees. He wants to belong, to be a part of nature and right
in the middle of the ambient conversation. But the zealousness with which he performs these
tasks ultimately becomes more meaningful than the tasks themselves. Because, in the end,
he is still at the bottom of the social ladder. Cadiot’s style, for its explosive language and
extraordinary situations, lends itself remarkably to the stage. It is fragmented, creating a
tragicomic world where nothing and everything makes sense. And it is delightfully playful,
challenging, disturbing, and above all, refreshingly original.
- KELINA GOTMAN, DRAMATURG.
OLIVIER CADIOT
STORMING THE BARRICADES OF CULTURE
59E59 THEATERS GO FABULOUSLY FRENCH!
Through December 2005, the work of many of France’s most exceptional theater artists land on New York
stages as part of Act French: A Season of New Theater from France. This festival presents a multitude of
productions, readings and cultural events in partnership with more than 20 of New York City’s most prestigious
and adventurous theaters and organizations. Over 30 contemporary French / francophone works displaying
France’s theatrical tradition of addressing political, social and psychological issues through art are to be seen
throughout the city. www.actfrench.org
Act French and the Olivier Cadiot Festival is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the
United States, AFAA (Association Française d’Action Artistique), FACE (French American Cultural Exchange),
the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, IXISsm Capital Markets, Etant donnés: The French-American
Fund for the Performing Arts.
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NOVEMBER 8 – 27
IN PARENTHESES presents
A.W.O.L.
Based on COLONEL ZOO
By OLIVIER CADIOT
Translated by COLE SWENSEN
Composed by ADAM SILVERMAN
Music director JONATHAN BABCOCK
Directed by MARION SCHOEVAERT
Starring STEVEN RATTAZZI
AND ALL MALE CHORUS OF 12
A beggar-poet begins his transformation from homeless person
to manservant to spy to colonel to American hero, witnessed
by an operatic chorus of anonymous Wall Street businessmen.
A.W.O.L. is a hymn to class struggle, a mini-opera for
loneliness, and the symphony of a military regiment.
$25 (MEMBERS $17.50)
TUE – SAT 8, SUN 3
Performed in English
OPEN!
TUESDAY - SUNDAY 6 TILL LATE – SOMETIMES VERY LATE!
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IN PARENTHESES PRESENTS
A.W.O.L.
BY OLIVIER CADIOT
Translated by COLE SWENSEN
Composed by ADAM SILVERMAN
Music Director JONATHAN BABCOCK
DIRECTED BY MARION SCHOEVAERT
NOVEMBER 8 - 27
Spotlight on
OLIVIER
CADIOT

BY OLIVIER CADIOT
Translated by COLE SWENSEN
Composed by ADAM SILVERMAN
Music Director JONATHAN BABCOCK
Directed by MARION SCHOEVAERT
Homeless man, Butler, Colonel, Spy, American Hero STEVEN RATTAZZI
ALL MALE CHORUS: Mark Kaczmarczyk, Christopher Boggs,
Dennis Blackwell, David Shane, Robert Hughes, Keith Broughton,
Jonathan Grant, Masami Morimoto, Christopher Mclamb,
Roy Ben Moshe, Ari Rossen, Todd Elliott
Composer ADAM SILVERMAN
Music Director JONATHAN BABCOCK
Set and Costume Designer ANNA KIRALY
Choreographer ELISSAVETA IORDANOVA
Lighting Designer TYLER MICOLEAU
Stage Manager ALAINA TAYLOR
Assistant Director STEPHANIE VELLA
Dramaturg KELINA GOTMAN
Video Recording ANNA KIRALY
Photographer SAM DOROFF
JONATHAN BABCOCK (Music Director) has been lauded
as a rising star in both the choral music and music education
communities. He has received degrees from The Crane
School of Music, SUNY Potsdam (B.Mus; M. Mus) and
The Hartt School, University of Hartford (D.M.A.) and is in
demand as a choral clinician, adjudicator and conductor
throughout the U.S. As a conductor, he has worked with
artists such as opera stars Stephanie Blythe, Carol Meyer,
Anton Belov and Margaret Lattimore, and Tony Award
winner Victoria Clark. Working as an advocate for
contemporary choral music, he has overseen the
commissioning of new works by composers such as Paul
Moravec, Amnon Wolman, David Sisco and Mark Miller.
Highlights include the world premieres of Stephen Paulus’
Sweet Soul, Jerry Ulrich’s Journey of the Magi and
Stefan Weisman’s David and Jonathan. Dr. Babcock
is a member of the faculty at the Conservatory of Music,
Brooklyn College, CUNY.
There he conducts the Brooklyn College Chorale,
Conservatory Chamber Choir and teaches courses in music
education and ear training. Dr. Babcock is the Deputy
Director for Undergraduate Studies and Coordinator of
Music Performance for the Conservatory.
KELINA GOTMAN (Dramaturg) has worked in over two
dozen productions in the US, the UK, Canada and Belgium
as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, choreographer,
musician and poet including at the Cocteau Repertory Theater
(Rough Road, dir. Julia Barclay), Trinity Repertory Theater
(Mall, by Alice Tuan), Oxford Playhouse, Oxford Classical
Drama Society Greek Plays (Iphigenia at Aulis, by Euripides),
Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Man Outside, by Wolfgang
Borchert , and The BFG, by Roald Dahl), Repertorio Español
(Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisa en su Jardín, dir. Gisela
Cardenas), Walkerspace at SoHo Rep (Ondine by Jean
Giraudoux, dir. Jill Samuels), Ohio Theater (In a Hall in the
Palace of Pyrrhus, dir. Daniel Safer), St. Veronica’s Church
(Agamemnon, dir. Gisela Cardenas). Her poetry has been
published in the North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry
and Short Fuse: The World Anthology of Fusion Poetry. She
is currently a Marjorie Hope Nicolson Fellow in the Doctoral
Program Subcommittee on Theatre at Columbia University.
She was born in Montreal.
ELISSAVETA IORDANOVA (Choreographer) has
professional recognition as a dancer, teacher and
choreographer from her native country Bulgaria as well
as USA, Austria and Romania. She holds a MFA in modern
dance from Sarah Lawrence College, NY, a MA in theater
from National Academy for Theater and Film Arts-Sofia and
Associate degree in Bulgarian folk dance. She is a Fulbright
Scholar and recipient of National Center for Music and
Dance-Bulgaria Award. She was under the faculty of Salzburg
Experimental Academy of Dance, National School for Dance
Arts, Academy for Music and Dance Arts, National Academy
for Theater and Film Arts in Bulgaria. She is the founder of
New Stage Alliance and DanceLab ELEA in Sofia and
initiator of the First Improvisational Festival REFLEKT in Sofia.
Her choreography and dancing was presented in venues
as DanSpace “St. Mark’s Church”, Movement Research
at Judson, Balkan Dance Platform and Fringe Festival, NY.
She teaches dance, composition and body conditioning
classes in New York City.
ANNA KIRALY (Designer) holds a MFA from the Academy
of Fine Arts, Budapest. Set, costumes, puppets and video
for shows in Europe and NYC. Her work was selected for
the WSD 2005 exhibition. Her recent theater projects are
UFO in K. for Arts at St. Ann’s, costumes for Kafka Fragments
with Peter Sellars, Zankel Hall. She worked with M.
Schoevaert previously on In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
by B. M. Koltes, Corset by J. L. Lagarce and video and
shadow theater for the New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher
Hall. She received the Arts Link Grant -SOROS and is
currently on the NEA/TCG Career Development Program
for Designers 2003-5. She is a member of In Parentheses.
www.akkg.com
TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Designer) Designer for the
Koltes New York Festival for In Parentheses at the Ohio
Theater. Over 150 design credits in the U.S.A. and abroad.
Recipient of 2004 Village Voice OBIE and Lucille Lortel
Award for outstanding lighting design of Tracy Letts' BUG
(Barrow Street Theater). Recent NY designs include: Ladies
of the Corridor (Peccadillo), The Intelligent Design of Jenny
Chow (Atlantic). Faculty: Sarah Lawrence College Department
of Dance.
STEVEN RATTAZZI (Homeless man, Butler, Colonel, Spy,
American Hero) is well-known to New York theater audiences,
having received accolades for his performances in Rinne
Groff’s Jimmy Carter was a Democrat, Henry V (NYSF)
Painted Snake in a Painted Chair at LaMama (for which
he won a 2003 OBIE), Hilary Easton’s The Short-Cut, Belize
with The Talking Band, Olivier Cadiot’s The Unknown Guest
(HERE) and Colonel of Fools (Ohio Theater); The Fourth
Sister at the Vineyard Theatre, Anne Washburn’s Apparition;
I, Rasputin at PS 122, The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem,
directed by David Herskovits, The Alchemist, directed by
Barry Edelstein at CSC, Thérèse Raquin (d. David Esbjornson),
Christmas at the Ivanovs (d. Karin Koonrod), Freakshow,
The Seagull, Strictly Dishonorable (Vineyard Theatre), Titus
Andronicus, Cymbeline, Six Scenes for Target Margin
(company member); King Lucky, Girl in the Ashes, A Pound
of Flesh and Waterbirds, all with Todd Alcott; Venus (NYSF),
Victor (Arden Party), Samuel’s Major Problems (Richard
Foreman), Carson Kreitzer’s The Lovesong of J. Robert
Oppenheimer at Cincinnatti Playhouse (d. Mark Wing-
Davey) and tours of Maurice Sendak’s Really Rosie
and Arthur Yorink’s So Sue Me at the Kennedy Center.
He is a member of In Parentheses, Inc. and Target Margin
Theatre. He is also the voice of Dr. Orpheus on the animated
television series The Venture Brothers.
MARION SCHOEVAERT (Director) Born in Paris in 1972.
She is an alumnus of the LCT Director’s Lab, and a founding
member of In Parentheses. She has translated, produced
and/or directed 4 Short Plays by Samuel Beckett (1995),
Investigating Sex: The Annual Surrealist Conference (1996)
and The Interview by Michel Vinaver (1997); the American
premiere of West Pier by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1999),
Corset, a jazz suite by Jean-Luc Lagarce (2001), Le Mariage
de Figaro at Florence Gould Hall (2001), The Unknown
Guest at HERE (2001) and Colonel of Fools at the Ohio
Theater (2001) both by Olivier Cadiot; shadow theater
plays with the NY Philharmonic for Aesop’s Fables Androcles
and the Lion and The Tortoise and the Hare at Avery Fisher
Hall (2004). She was co-producer of the Koltès Festival in
NYC in 2002-03 for which she directed In the Solitude of
Cotton Fields, tour in Eastern Europe. She is now working
for the Seoul Art Center, Korea, on Michel Vinaver’s
The Korean People.
ADAM SILVERMAN (Composer) Born in 1973.
He is one of the brightest lights in the newest constellation
of American composers. Based in New York City, Silverman
has received commissions from the New York City Opera,
Eighth Blackbird, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra,
Brooklyn Symphony, Albany Symphony Chamber Orchestra,
Amelia Piano Trio, the Corigliano Quartet and Flux Quartets,
Relâche, Real Time Opera, Yale Philharmonic, and other
important ensembles. His work has been widely performed,
notably at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center,
Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum, La Jolla
Chamber Music Society and the Spoleto Festival. Silverman’s
work ranges from classical concert works (the piano trio
Sturm and String Quartet No. 2) to rock-based music for
live performers and electronics (Strawberry Fields Continued
for percussion, cello and recording), opera (Korczak’s
Orphans), conceptual music-theater (Telemusic for phones
and percussion) and The Mostly True Story of Professor
Leon and Me, “educational” music written as composer-inresidence
for The Commission Project. He co-founded
Minimum Security Composers Collective.
ALAINA TAYLOR (Stage Manager) has been involved
as a stage manager with In Parentheses’ productions of
Tortoise and the Hare (“sexy she hare”) and Androcles
and the Lion at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, and In the Solitude of Cotton Fields. Other NY
credits include: UFO in K with Anna Kiraly at St. Ann’s
Warehouse (puppeteer). The Disembodied Soul with Willow
Breaking Productions (stage manager); The Last of Mrs.
Lincoln with T.E.S.T. theater (Mrs. Todd). She is pursuing
acting in New York and is a member of In Parentheses.
STEPHANIE VELLA (Assistant Director) is a recent graduate
of Bennington College, and is currently living and working in
New York. She has worked as a performer, director, and
dramaturg at A Theater Under the Influence, Moscow Art
Theater Conservatory, and Bennington College. She is excited
to be working with In Parentheses for the first time.
ALL MALE CHORUS
DENNIS BLACKWELL baritone, is a versatile singing actor
who has performed in opera, operetta, cabaret, and musical
theater to critical acclaim. He has appeared with the New
York City Opera, the Kennedy Center, NY Gilbert & Sullivan
Players, Commonwealth Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Washington
Concert Opera, Bronx, the Washington (DC) Savoyards, and
Creative Mechanics Theater Co.
CHRIS BOGGS a native a Atlanta, GA. Chris attended
Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University
where he pursued both Musical Theatre and Vocal
performance. Some of Chris' recent credits include: Hysterium
in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,
Charlie Brown in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and
Little Bat McLean in Susannah. Chris thanks his family and
friends for all of their love and support.
KEITH BROUGHTON was last seen in the acclaimed
Gallery Players productions of Hair and Drood. Originally
from Northern CA, Keith received his MFA from Brooklyn
College. Other credits include Jack (Tim Blake Nelson’s Eye
of God), Harry (Company), Raskolnikov/The Underground
Man (The Dostoevski Project), The Baker (Into the Woods),
and Matt (The Fantasticks).
TODD ELLIOTT Regional Credits: Forever Plaid, Jekyll and
Hyde, When Pigs Fly, Guys & Dolls, Easter Parade, Ferdinand
the Bull. Todd also works as a church musician in Manhattan
and has worked as a choir director for many years.
Much love to Fran and Chuck.
JASON FORBACH is pleased to be a part of A.W.O.L.
On the opera stage, Jason has appeared with Boston Lyric
Opera, Opera Boston, Central City Opera and was a
Metropolitan Opera National Council Semi-Finalist.
In New York, Jason has appeared Off Broadway as Orlando
in As You Like It (McGinn/Cazale), the BMI Workshop
of The Heiress - The Musical, on One Life To Live, the
upcoming Julie Taymor film Across The Universe and
Prince of a Fella: A Tribute to Hal Prince at Carnegie
Hall with New York Festival of Song. Regional credits
include The Glass Menagerie, Hello, Again, and Big River.
He would like to thank his parents for their constant love
and support.
ROBERT HUGHES A native of Houston, Texas Robert, has
performed in many operas including Cephus in Treemonisha,
Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Count Almaviva in
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ramiro in Cenerentola, Don Octavio
in Don Giovanni, Monostatos in The Magic Flute, Brighella
in Ariadne auf Naxos, Arsemene in Handel's Xerxes, Rinuccio
in Gianni Schicchi, Nate in William Grant-Still's Highway
One, Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Flute in a
A Midsummer's Night Dream. He has a B.A. from the
University of Saint Thomas and a M.M. from the Conservatory
of Music at UMKC. He attended the Brevard Music Center
in North Carolina and was a Middle America Apprentice
with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
MARK KACZMARCZYK (Chorus Leader) Bass. Called a
"polished and telling performer" by British Opera Journal,
recent highlights include his west coast debut as bass soloist
in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and Bach's Cantata 211
with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. Conducting
credits include Handel's Semele, with counter tenor David
Daniels in Detroit, Handel's Acis and Galatea for the Detroit
Institute of the Arts, and an all Brahms recital with pianists
James Tocco and the late Ruth Laredo at the Great Lakes
Chamber Music Festival. The Metropolitan Opera Regional
Finalist holds a Master's Degree from the Eastman School
of Music, and from 2000-04 was Assistant Professor of
Voice/Director of Opera at the University of Oregon.
Currently resides and teaches in NYC.
CHRISTOPHER MCLAMB holds a B.A. in Musical Theatre
from Susquehanna University and is currently applying for
the 2006 Circle in the Square Theatre School. Regional:
tick, tick…BOOM! (Michael u/s – George Street Playhouse),
A Christmas Carol (Ghosts of Christmas Present and Future
– Walnut Street Theatre), Angels in America: Millennium
Approaches (Belize/Mr. Lies – Open Stage of Harrisburg).
Touring: Natn’l: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Bottom/Pyramus – GMT Productions).
Opera: Mozart’s The Impresario (Scruples). Vocal
Performance: R. Vaughn Williams’ Mass in G minor (Tenor
Soloist), Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy (Baritone Soloist).
Film/TV: Hustlers and Strays (Supporting – with Dan Fogler:
2005 Tony). Special love to ‘mi cielo’.
MASAMI MORIMOTO, versatile baritone frequently
appeared in operas, musical theatre and TV programs in his
native Japan. He also performed as a soloist and as a member
of the chorus in Germany, Poland, Russia,Latvia, Korea and
Indonesia, including European premiere of Penderecki's
Creado with Helmuth Rilling. Since moving to US, he has
sung Carmen (Morales) and Otello(Ludvico) at Regina Opera,
La Traviata(Marquis) at Hudson Opera and Opera of the
Hamptons, The Magic Flute(Papageno) with Queens College
Orchestra, Travis Tanner(ensemble) in FringeNYC and Mabou
Mines Red Beads(chorus) to name a few. He recently
graduated NYU with MA in vocal performance.
ROY BEN MOSHE has been involved in many companies
including Marlboro in Cinderella as Prince Charming; Premier
in Anything Goes as Ensemble and Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dream Coat – Ensemble and A Chorus Line as
Ensemble. He has also been involved in Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat as - Brother
ARI ROSSEN Ari was recently seen in An Evening of
Talented Talent at Don?t Tell Mama (Matt David Productions).
Regional: The Tinman in The Wizard of Oz (American Family
Theatre); Off-Bwy: You Again (NY Fringe Festival), Why Do
Fools Fall In Love? (Lion Theater - Wayne Cilento, dir.), Once
Upon A Mattress, Delilah: The Musical, Now That You've
Seen Me Naked. Film: Casual Day, The Fall. A native of
Northern California, Ari holds a B.S. in Theatre and
Concentration in Musical Theatre from Northwestern University.
Many thanks to his family and friends for their continued
inspiration and support.
DAVID SHANE originally hails from Ohio. He has been
seen in numerous regional and summer stock productions
including A Little Night Music (Henrick), Star Spangled Girl
(Norman), The Complete Works...Abridged, and The
Fantasticks (Matt). In NYC, he has sung professionally with
a church choirs and recently worked with a not-for-profit
theatre company (also called AWOL) that produced two
shows in the NYMF.
Act French is made possible by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
in the United States, Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA),
The French Ministry of Culture and Communication, FACE (French American
Cultural Exchange), Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for the
Performing Arts. Generous support provided by PLAYBILL, The Berlys
Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Act French
thanks IXISsm Capital Markets for its generous support of the Cadiot series
SPECIAL THANKS
Act French Staff
General Coordination: Emmanuelle de Montgazon
Artistic Liaison: Denise Luccioni
Artistic Advisor: Mark Russell
Development: Elisabeth Hayes (FACE) / Rachel Spiegel
Administration/Coordination: Nicole Birmann Bloom
Design: Flyleaf
Web programming: Radius Design LLC
Marketing/Advertising: Eliran Murphy Group
Press: The Karpel Group
Writer/editor: Janine Nichols
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York: Jean-René Gehan,
Olivier Boasson, Marie Bonnel, Fabrice Rozié, Jean-Christian Agid,
Paula Cianci, Gaëlle Moalic, Evangeline Masson
AFAA (Association Française d'Action Artistique): Olivier Poivre
d'Arvor, Jean-Marc Granet Bouffartigue, David Turz, Marie Raymond,
Elisabeth Ferri, Stéphane Negrin, Agnès Benayer, Anne-Florence
Vernier, Maxime Duda
FACE (French American Cultural Exchange): Agatha Ciancarelli,
Laurent Auffret
And Material for the Arts, Sang Pil Bae, Isabelle Ronget, Jossy Chait,
Barry Buckland, Steven Rattazzi (website design), Sam Doroff (photographer),
Emma Kibler (Production Assistant)
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