Red Monkey Theater Group Announces 2013-2014 Season
8/16/2013
Red Monkey Theater Group (RMTG), the University of Mount Saint Vincent’s theater company-in-residence, is proud to present a “Season of Sisters,” an exploration of the bonds and barriers of sisterhood through three masterpieces of the stage. The performance series, beginning in mid-October 2013 and continuing through mid-April 2014, includes Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in a new adaptation by RMTG Artistic Director Tal Aviezer; and productions of King Lear by William Shakespeare in January and Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley in April.
Performances will be held in the newly-renovated Cahill Theater at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, 6301 Riverdale Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471. This 75-seat venue, featuring an intimate thrust stage and raked seating, is ideally suited to the personal, thoughtful performance style and voyeuristic staging that have long been RMTG hallmarks.
RMTG’s “Season of Sisters” will commence with a production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in a new adaptation by Director Tal Aviezer, running October 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, and November 1 and 2, Fridays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. “Chekhov’s quiet, funny, shattering story of Irina, Masha, and Olga and the domestic upheaval surrounding their lives in the Russian countryside remains as relevant and revealing in the 21st century as it was at the dawn of the 20th,” Mr. Aviezer said.
The season continues with January 2014 performances of William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Part folk tale, part searing psychological study, Shakespeare’s masterpiece of suffering, ambition, loss, and reconciliation is a formula for making peace with our own histories. The “Season of Sisters” concludes in April 2014 with Crimes of the Heart, as RMTG invites audiences to visit Old Grandaddy’s home in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, home of the MaGrath Sisters and setting for Beth Henley’s strange, moving, and brilliant southern gothic comedy.
Season tickets to all three “Season of Sisters” productions are currently on sale at www.redmonkeytheater.org for $48 for ALL THREE shows ($36 for students and seniors) – a savings of 25% over individual ticket prices. Season Subscribers can reserve their tickets before individual ticket sales open to the general public in September, thereby avoiding sell-outs. Admission to all performances is free to University of Mount Saint Vincent Students and staff with ID.
For tickets, directions, and additional details, please visit www.redmonkeytheater.org.
Founded in 1999, the Red Monkey Theater Group is a non-profit performing arts company dedicated to enriching local communities through the cultivation, creation, and presentation of live classical and contemporary theater. Our home theater at the University of Mount Saint Vincent serves as a developing cultural destination and venue for theatrical education and exploration. Company members have trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Moscow Arts Theater, Lincoln Center Theater and other diverse institutions and programs.
About the University of Mount Saint Vincent
The University of Mount Saint Vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, Catholic and ecumenical liberal arts college. It combines a strong core curriculum with a full array of majors in the liberal arts and selected professional fields of study, including accounting, business administration, education, and nursing. Through its School of Professional and Continuing Studies, the College extends its primary undergraduate mission by offering high quality graduate studies in business, education and nursing and an array of undergraduate and certificate programs serving non-traditional students. Mount Saint Vincent is located on a pastoral campus in New York City, with easy access to all the educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities that the City affords.