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The art of storytelling,wrapped in a cloak of myths, mystery and magic, is being woven and wornbeautifully at the Yale Summer Cabaret. Their “50 Nights: A Festival of Stories” features three afternoons andevenings of theater filled with fantasy from all over the world.
Until Sunday, August 19, youare invited on a theatrical adventure in the dark and intimate space of theYale Summer Cabaret, downstairs at 217 Park Street, New Haven where for morethan three decades students of the Yale School of Drama have producedimaginative and involving shows. Come early and enjoy gourmet prepared snacks and meals, desserts anddrinks and stay late for a special story from the Fireside Series, read outsideon select evenings around a fire pit.
“The Kiss of D,” or Kiss ofDeath, is a one woman show, written by Laura Schellhardt and directed by TanyaDean, that stars a gifted Monique Barbee as she captures seventeen charactersin one classic urban legend, a tale about what we fear as well as welcome.
Travel to the small town ofSt. Mary’s, Ohio and immerse yourself in a story of Charlotte McGraw and how ahuman soul is transported into a bird. The playwright herself describes the folklore as a “psychologicalnecessity as well as a creepy memory” since she spent her summers in St.Mary’s, often writing there. Herea sister experiences a visit from her dead brother who comes back to her in theform of a flying creature.
A quite different theatricalexperience can be had with “Of Ogres Retold,” conceived and directed by AdamRigg with puppets, dance, movement, music, sound and light but no voices. The ensemble cast includes JosiahBania, Ethan Heard, Hannah Sorenson, Mickey Theis and Alex Trow who createalmost a dozen strange tales with a Japanese flavor of giants, strangecreatures, magic balls of rice, jealous husbands, vengeful dragons, malevolentsnow spirits, unusual fish with powers and sea monsters.
Enter the dark forest andplumb the depths of the deep ocean at your own risk where all your fears, andsome you never dreamed of, come to life. Don’t worry, the creative actors will be there to hold your hand.
The third offering is “TheSecret in the Wings” by Mary Zimmerman and directed by Margot Bordelon, withthe same fine cast as noted above. Here tales from as far away as Germany, France, Italy and Norway, sevenin all, are explored for their fairy tale truth, wisdom and inner struggle.
A young girl is left againsther will with a strange babysitter, a Mr. Fitzbania, a neighbor with a tail andmany tales. He insists he wants tomarry her and uses a series of unusual stories to woo her to his side. The stories are filled with kings andqueens and balls, childhood games and contests that result in death to thelosers, slaves and princes, many-headed ogres, swans, magic feathers and allmanner of creatures we love to hate.
For tickets ($25-40, student$10 or subscription packages for $70, student $29), call the Yale SummerCabaret at 203-432-1567 or online at www.SummerCabaret.org.Come early for a fig and goat cheese tarte ($7), glass noodles with juliennedvegetables ($8), a cold or hot drink or a dish of ice cream ($3)), to name buta few of the selections.
Check the website for showsWednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and matinees at 2 p.m.Saturday. On Saturdays, July 14and August 11, you can see the complete trio of performances: “The K of D” at 1 p.m., “Of OgresRetold” at 4:30 p.m. and “The Secret in the Wings” at 8 p.m. Doors open at 1 p.m. for lunch and 6:30p.m. for dinner.
Catch a thread of this magictapestry of tales and follow it to the core of imagination at the theatricalcenter.
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