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ASYLUM THEATRE IN
THE CLEAN HOUSE
BY SARAH RUHL
Eight performances:
September 20-23 & 27-30, 2012
Thursday through
Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm
Tickets: $28
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Staller Center opens the
season with The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, a whimsical, romantic comedy.
You’ll meet Matilde, a Brazilian maid who hates cleaning; her employer Lane, a
driven American doctor; Lane’s surgeon husband Charles; and other unforgettable
characters. The Clean House explores how far we are willing to go for the
ones we love. The play will be staged in one of the Center’s intimate black box
theaters.
The Clean House
received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Asylum Theatre Company, a group of
professional actors, has staged a range of productions over the past decade
including The Tempest, which was honored with inclusion into the Royal
Shakespeare Company’s Open Stages Festival.
The Clean House
is a co-production of Staller Center, Asylum Theatre, Stony Brook’s
Department of Theatre Arts and the Oberon Foundation.
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DONKA - A letter to Chekhov
Saturday, November 10,
2012 at 8:00 pm
Main Stage - $38
The great magic of the
circus pays homage to Russian playwright
and physician Anton
Chekhov in a show of visions, dancers,
acrobats and jugglers.
Donka is the latest creation of Daniele
Finzi Pasca—already
confirmed as a leading figure on the
international theatre
scene and author of unforgettable shows for
Cirque Eloize and Cirque du Soleil.
In a
stream-of-consciousness love-letter to Chekhov you’ll see a
dream-like world of
performers portraying the parade of students,
doctors and dreamers
that populate Chekhov’s literary landscape.
Donka is a
theatrical work accompanied by the exotic sounds of old
Russia. Come to a performance you
will not soon forget.
An international cast
animates the stage, while music spreads like a resonant carpet, recalling the
atmosphere of
far away Russia.
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SHAOLIN WARRIORS
Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Main Stage - $38
In a fully choreographed theatrical
production, the Shaolin
Warriors bring a new show to Staller Center. Performed by
disciples of the Shaolin schools, known throughout the world
for their disciplined and deadly martial-arts prowess, these
Kung Fu masters have trained from a very young age in mental
and physical disciplines, which allow them to perform feats
one thought only possible in the movies.
The remarkable
skill, stunning movement, and spectacular
imagery of Kung
Fu.
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RAISIN’ CANE
WITH
JASMINE GUY
AND
THE AVERY SHARPE TRIO
Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Main Stage - $34
Raisin’ Cane, called a ‘Harlem
Renaissance Odyssey,’ stars the talented and versatile Jasmine Guy, actress
(A Different World), singer and dancer. This dramatic production depicts
Harlem in the 1920’s: a pent up explosion of brilliant prose, poetry, politics
and music of African-Americans who were ready to have their say.
Backed by a superb original score performed by the
Avery Sharpe Trio, Raisin’ Cane features striking photos and paintings of the
artists and inhabitants of Harlem during this period, and is a unique theatrical
experience unlike any other.
It was an exceptional time.
It was our time.
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CELTIC NIGHTS
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Main Stage - $38
Sponsored by Forest Laboratories, Inc.
Celtic Nights is a unique show
featuring the finest male and female voices of the Celtic world, showcased
against a thundering backdrop of expert dancing and musicianship. In this
glittering production, six of
Ireland’s most prominent vocal talents are complemented by six of its most
accomplished step dancers, creating an exhilarating picture of a proud people
who carved out a home in the New World. In Celtic Nights, their
story is told, through the power and majesty of music and dancing feet.
Traditional ballads, vivid choreography and the
story of a people struggling to find their place in a changing world.
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HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Main Stage - $42
Sponsored by Teachers Federal Credit Union
Take a nostalgic journey through the most
popular movie musicals of the last fifty years. The show features a cast of
fourteen wonderful singers and dancers, and lots
of costume changes. Enjoy film clips of your favorite movies from Singing in
the Rain and Grease, to West Side Story and Dirty Dancing.
Hooray for Hollywood performers sing and dance to over thirty songs including
“Staying Alive,” “All that Jazz,” “Dancing Queen,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and many
more! Watch as lights, camera, action unfolds live on stage.
Hollywood’s Greatest Song and Dance Live on
Stage
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LES
BALLETS TROCKADERO
DE
MONTE CARLO
Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Main Stage - $42
Sponsored by Holiday Inn Express - Stony Brook
Les
Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is a marvelous company of male dancers
performing the full range of the ballet and modern dance repertoire, including
classical and original works in faithful renditions of the manners and conceits
of those dance styles.
The
“Trocks” comedy is achieved by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles,
accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance.
Men dance all the parts—heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes as swans,
sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, and angst-ridden Victorian ladies.
Their performance will delight and amuse the most knowledgeable dance fans as
well as novices to ballet.
A
unique brand of ballet, dancing a fine line between high art and high camp.
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