La Vie Matérielle (dir: Irina Brook) live in NYC feat. Sadie Jemmett

You say I idealize women? Possibly. Who can say. What’s wrong with a woman being idealized a bit now and then?” Marguerite Duras

Celebrated Parisian stage director Irina Brook is proud to announce her New York theatrical debut at FIAF on March 5th and 6th, at 7:00 p.m., with “Irina Brook’s La Vie Matérielle,” a vivid interpretation of Marguérite Duras’s collection of essays on daily life, and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

The production features a diverse ensemble of female performers including Nicole Ansari (HBO’s Deadwood, West End & Broadway productions of Tom Stoppard’s “Rock and Roll,” Théâtre du Soleil), Obie-award winning actress, director, and writer Winsome Brown, novelist and former editor of French Vogue Joan Juliet Buck who was last seen in the film “Julie and Julia,” famed British folk-rock diva Sadie Jemmett, and concert violin soloist Yibin Li.

Packed with music, girl-talk, and refreshing frankness, this evening is a festive gathering of talents; an experience of sharing these authors’ extraordinary words while cooking, laughing, crying, singing, and dancing together in an imaginary and theatrical kitchen.

Irina Brook, daughter of director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry, has directed theater and opera productions throughout Europe. Her Paris-based theater company, Compagnie Irina Brook, is currently on tour with four different productions. Brook is a recipient of the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

Brook’s La Vie Matérielle makes it’s world premiere at FIAF as part of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy’s month-long “In the Words of Duras” Festival.

Part of the series: “In the Words of Duras”

French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF): Tinker Auditorium

Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7pm
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 7pm
22 East 60th Street, New York, NY
FIAF Members $30, Non-Members $35
Information: 212.355.6160
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La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

March 11 – 21

First Floor Theater: Thurs-Sat at 8:00 pm, Sun at 2:30 pm and 8:00 pm
74A East 4th St. NY, NY 10003
Tel: 212.475.7710
Office: Mon – Fri, 11am – 6pm
Box Office: Mon, Noon – 5pm, Tues – Sun, Noon – 9pm
web@lamama.org
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Adult $18.00
Student/Senior $13.00

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