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Boston Globe: In Russian or English, Arlekin Players hope audiences feel the weight of ‘The Stone’
In 1935, a young couple purchases a house from a Jewish family in Dresden, Germany. The play follows the lives of the house’s residents, who must grapple with their own identity while experiencing the reverberations created by 60 years of German history. As a house passes from owner to owner, and from generation to generation, the secrets buried in the garden and seeping from the walls reveal themselves.
Marius von Mayenburg is a playwright, translator, dramaturg, director and one of the most widely produced German playwrights. His plays receive regularly productions at the Schaubühne/Berlin, the Royal Court Theater/ London, and other major theaters around the world.
Marius von Mayenburg’s new play examines the reverberations created by sixty years of German history.
IMPORTANT BACKGROUND INFO – The Stone (by permission from Royal Court Theatre)
Boston Globe: Excavating the Truth in Arlekin’s spellbinding ‘The Stone’.
Joyce’s Choices: The Stone.
Jewish Journal: Arlekin Players dig for answers in ‘The Stone’
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ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE REMOUNTS
GERMAN PLAYWRIGHT MARIUS VON MAYENBURG’S
THE STONE
New Dates Added September 13 – 29 (performed in English)
“This is our house underneath all this mildew and junk. I know every stone.”
Arlekin Players Theatre will remount German playwright Marius von Mayenburg’s The Stone September 13 – 29 performed in English at their theater at Studio 368 in Needham. Directed by Arlekin Players Theatre’s Artistic Director Igor Golyak (Elliot Norton Award-winning A Dead Man’s Diary), the production was performed in Russian by the same cast in May and June. Arlekin will be offering unique pre-show and post-show talks for interested groups. *See the performance schedule below. Tickets range from $45 – $65. Arlekin will be celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. For more information and tickets, visit arlekinplayers.com or call 617-942-9822.
“It’s a kind of theatre that not only crosses borders but also draws from a number of performance traditions: dance, spoken word, performance art, and modern music arrangement harmoniously intertwine in our performances to create unique and memorable productions.” Igor Golyak, Artistic Director
In 1935, a young couple purchases a house from a Jewish family in Dresden, Germany. The play follows the lives of the house’s residents, who must grapple with their own identity while experiencing the reverberations created by 60 years of German history. As the house is passed from owner to owner, and generation to generation, the secrets buried in the garden and within the walls reveal themselves.
Marius von Mayenburg is a playwright, translator, dramaturg, director and one of the most widely produced German playwrights. Born in Munich in 1972, he studied Old German at University in Munich, before moving to Berlin in 1992, where he did a course in playwriting at the Hochschule der Künste from 1994 to 1998. In 1995 he completed a placement at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 1998, he became a member of the artistic direction team at the Baracke, the studio theatre of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1999 he went with Thomas Ostermeier to work as artistic director and playwright-in-residence at the “Berliner Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz”. His plays receive regular staging at Schaubühne/Berlin, Royal Court Theater/London, and other venues around the world.
The Stone Production design team features David R. Gammons (scenographer), Nastya Bugaeva (costume design), Jeff Adelberg (light design), Jakov Jakoulov (original score), Vladimir Gusev (video designer) and an eight-member cast including Jenya Brodskaia (Conductor #1), Misha Tyutyunik (Conductor #2 ), Olga Sokolova (Hannah), Viktoriya Kovalenko (Heidrun), Darya Denisova (Witha), Rimma Gluzman (Mieze), Anna Kovalenko (Stefanie), and David Gamarnik (Wolfgang).
Arlekin Players Theatre was created in Boston in 2009 and has since toured to New York, Chicago, and Hartford, as well as to several international festivals. Arlekin takes strong pride in their emphasis on self-identity; they are a company of immigrants performing works that play on the ideas of cross-culture, home, and traditions, challenging the idea of nationality, and finding common themes that unite us all. Performances are in Russian, with simultaneous translation into English. The company makes its home in Needham, MA. For more information, visit www.arlekinplayers.com.
Artistic Team
Igor Golyak (Artistic Director) is an Associate Professor at the Boston Conservatory, and has spent over a decade teaching the art of theatre. He is the founder of the Igor Golyak Acting Studio and Artistic Director of Arlekin Players Theatre which has won numerous awards in the United States and internationally and most recently an Elliot Norton award for his production of Dead Man’s Diary at Arts Emerson. Arlekin Players Theatre is a multicultural, multi-national collaborative that is growing year to year in the number of audience members, company actors, and volunteers. His theatre has been invited to perform on famous stages and at world-renowned festivals all over the world, including Moscow Art Theatre, and festivals in Yerevan, Armenia, New York City, Chicago, Lviv, Ukraine, Monaco, and many others. This coming fall 2019, he will be directing The Seagull at Arlekin Players Theatre and The Merchant of Venice at Actors’ Shakespeare Project.
David R. Gammons (Scenic Design) is a director, designer, visual artist, and theatre educator. He is currently an Associate Professor at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scenic design credits include major productions for The American Repertory Theatre, The Poets’ Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Headlong Dance Theatre, and Pig Iron Theater Company, among others. Mr. Gammons’ stage designs have been seen in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and on tour in Belfast, Ireland and Strasbourg, France. He holds a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University.
Nastya Bugaeva (Costume Design) graduated from the famous Moscow Art Theatre in 2009 with a degree in Set Design. In 2018, she became a professor leading a class at the Moscow Art Theater. She has collaborated on over 40 productions at the Moscow Art Theatre, Sovremennik Theatre, Mayakovsky Theatre, Masterskaya Fomenko Theatre, Vakhtangov Theatre, Theatre of Nations, Moscow Satire Theatre, Krasnoyarsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet, among others. She has worked with world-renowned directors like M. Brusnikina, V. Ryzhakov, A. Sigalova, V.Petrov, and V.Mirzoyev. She is a regular participant in national exhibitions of theatre designers such as the Russian Shakespeare, Northern Stage, Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), Season Results, Baltic Seasons, and others. Nastya is a “Your Chance 2009” exhibition laureate (Grand Prize for Best Set Design for “Don Juan” by Moliere).
Jeff Adelberg (Lighting Design) is happy to join with Arlekin Players for the first time. Recent work: Birdy, Macbeth, Death and the Maiden (Commonwealth Shakespeare); True West, Gloria, Night of the Iguana (Gamm Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet, Onegin (Greater Boston Stage Co.); The Curious Incident… (SpeakEasy Stage); Frankenstein, Constellations (Underground Railway Theatre); Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure (Poets’ Theatre at the MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland);Trouble in Tahiti and Arias and Barcarolles (Boston Lyric Opera); Christmas Revels since 2010. Jeff attended the University of Connecticut and teaches at Brandeis University, Boston College, and Fitchburg State University. Member of United Scenic Artists 829. www.Jeffadelberg.com
Jakov Jakoulov (Music Composition) Jakoulov’s music – “powerful and richly textured” – (“The New York Times”) has been commissioned and presented by Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland, Boston Symphony Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, International Arts Festivals in Edinburgh (Scotland), Avignon ( France), and Cortona (Italy); NES Orchestra (London, UK), Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, among others. Mr. Jakoulov is a recipient of the Eliot Norton Award of Boston Theater Critics Association, nominee for the 1993 award in music composition by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Elected Member of National Honor Music Society. Jakoulov’s music has been recorded by “Omnibus Classics” (England), “Orfeo” (Germany), “Naxos”, and “Boston records” (US).