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Translations & Adaptations Play Reading Series
To further our mission of exploring theatrical language, Remy Bumppo stages readings throughout the season of new works adapted from other mediums or newly translated works. Many of the plays included in this series will be presented for the first time. This is a wonderful opportunity to help the artistic process, as many of the writers will be in attendance, while also helping Remy Bumppo examine shows which may be a part of future mainstage seasons.
All readings take place on Sundays at 6:30 pm at the Greenhouse Theatre.
These events are FREE and reservations are requested. To reserve your seat, use our online events calendar, email us at rsvp@remybumppo.org, or call 773-244-8119.
Scheduled Readings
The 2011/2012 Translations & Adaptations Play Reading series plays:
The Nose
by Tom Swift
adapted from Nikolai Gogol's short story
Directed by Julieanne Ehre
Sunday October 16, 6:30pm
Greenhouse Theater Center
Join us for our first play reading of the season with Swift's creative and hilarious adaptation of Gogol's satirical story. At the center, an everyman has his nose run off his face and make a life of its own, impersonating a high-ranking official and generally wreaking havoc around St. Petersburg.
The Consequence of Impression
by Deborah Magid, based on the paintings of Manet and Morisot
Directed by Elly Green
Sunday, January 22, 2012, 6:30pm
Greenhouse Theater Center
A simmering examination of a love triangle between the Manet brothers—the famous painter Edouard and his quieter brother Eugene—and Edouard’s model and fellow painter, Bertha Morisot. Playwright Deborah Magid takes as her source material Manet’s paintings themselves and creates an adaptation that explores not just love in the 19th century but the revolution in optics which was brought about by painting at the turn of the century.
Featuring Diane Dorsey, Artistic Associate Linda Gillum, Lindsay Leopold, and Artistic Director Nick Sandys
Babbitt
by David Rambo, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
Sunday March 18, 2012, 6:30pm
Greenhouse Theater Center
Sinclair Lewis’ satire on conformity in a small Midwestern town is given a clearheaded, but theatrical retelling by Los Angeles writer and actor, David Rambo. The story of 1920s real-estate man’s growing dissatisfaction with the “American Dream” will take on new meanings in our current economic and political climate.
Arthur and George
by David Edgar, based on the novel by Julian Barnes
April 29, 2012, 6:30pm
Greenhouse Theater Center
Adapted by David Edgar (Nicholas Nickleby, Continental Divide, Pentecost) from the best-selling 2005 novel of Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes (Flaubert's Parrot, The Sense of an Ending), Arthur and George is a "semi-historical" fiction based on a true story. "Arthur" is Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, who is asked by George Edolji, a half-Indian solicitor who is accused of being a member of a gang that committed the sensationalized "Great Wyrley Outrages," to prove him innocent. As Conan Doyle and his mistress become more and more involved in the mystery, and the diverse lives of these very different men become vividly entwined. Questions not only of guilt and innocence, but romance and religion, nationality and identity are raised. What is the different between thinking something, believing, knowing it, and proving it? How does one truly see the truth?
The Translations and Adaptations Series is supported in part by The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation.
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