Lori N. Jones, ljones@fairfield.edu, 203-254-4000 Ext. 2975
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (May 31, 2017) —Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Art’s 27 th season is bringing art and performance that is bigger and bolder than ever, with exciting work and collaborations with artists that expand the limits of performance. With the new season, The Quick will continue to present works that are fun, thought-provoking, and engage with our audiences by bringing global perspectives and meaningful dialogue to our stages. Some highlights include:
Below find detailed information about all of the Quick Center’s programs coming in the 2017-18 season:
Acting and Resisting! An Evening with Artist, Actor, and Activist Mark Ruffalo
Open VISIONS Forum
Thursday, September 28, 2017 | 8 P.M.
$35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
Private Dinner Reception with Mark Ruffalo – Single $150, Couple $250 (includes ticket to OVF lecture at
8 p.m.)
One of Hollywood’s most sought after actors, Mark Ruffalo opens our season with a passionate point of view about climate change and environmental policies. He was honored with the Global Green Millennium Award for Environmental Leadership and the Meera Gandhi Giving Back Foundation Award. Beloved audiences of all ages, he is known for his roles appearing as ‘The Incredible Hulk’ in The Avengers and as Boston Globe reporter Michael Rezendes in the Academy Award winning film, Spotlight .
Frogmen: My Journeys with Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Crew of Calypso
Richard E. Hyman
Open VISIONS Forum: Espresso
Wien Experimental Theatre
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | 8 P.M.
This event is free and open to members and OVF subscribers.
To RSVP contact the Quick Center Box Office at 203-254-4010.
An inspiring coming of age story about a young man who pays homage to one of the greatest explorers of all time, Richard Hyman shares his experiences with Jacques Cousteau, the co-inventor of the Aqua-lung, maker of over 100 films, three-time Academy Award winner, and recipient of 40 Emmy nominations.
Global Theatre: A Performance Series
White/Boys/Black/Girls
Created in 2015, the Global Theatre Performance Series brings international artists to the Quick providing the opportunity to explore the liminal spaces between art, theatre, and performance. This year’s series is curated by Dr. Megan Lewis, theatre scholar at University of Massachusetts Amherst .
In an ever-dividing world where identity lines are drawn in broad strokes of “black” and “white,” this international curation brings together two powerful artistic voices from South Africa to explore race, sexuality, gender, and identity in our contemporary world.
United by their mutual passion for the frank, powerful medium of live performance, these featured artists — Mamela Nyamza and Iain “Ewok” Robinson — each offer up work that explores, questions, reclaims, or makes visible the complexities of identities, be they racial, gendered, sexual, or cultural.
Together, this series offers a productive space in which to engage with difference, to listen for the other, and to witness each other with keen compassion and considered insight through the compelling medium of live theatre and dance.
World Premiere
Iain “Ewok” Robinson
UNENTITLED
Wien Experimental Theatre
Saturday, September 30, 2017 | 8 P.M.
Sunday, October 1, 2017 | 3 P.M.
$25 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $18
Spoken word artist, rapper, and activist, Iain “Ewok” Robinson, uses hip hop practice to galvanize communities around social justice issues. In this one-man tour de force, Ewok examines assumptions about his own whiteness and privilege and explores how white men in particular might work towards coexistence rather than dominance within the multicultural, multiracial democracy that is the new South Africa.
Mamela Nyamza
HATCHED
Saturday, January 27, 2018 | 8 P.M.
Sunday, January 28, 2018 | 3 P.M.
Wien Experimental Theatre
$25 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $18
Created and performed by South African artist Mamela Nyamza, HATCHED is an autobiographical work that seeks to convey deeply personal and challenging issues of culture, tradition, and a woman’s evolving sexuality within the customary rites and rituals of marriage. Nyamza addresses these issues by juxtaposing movement vocabulary and accompaniment from both cultures, referencing classical Western music and dance, and also traditional African vocal scores and grounded movement. Nyamza has created a poignant story that speaks to feelings of conflict with one’s own identity and questioning where we belong in the world.
The Met: Live in HD
Norma
(Bellini)
Saturday, October 7, 2017
1 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
12:15 P.M. Pre-talk
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
The 2017–18 season opens with a new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s masterpiece, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her archrival, Adalgisa—a casting coup for bel canto fans. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful husband, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.
UPSIDE DOWN AND INSIDE OUT
The Quick’s Season Kick-Off Party
Friday, October 13, 2017
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Performance experience begins at 8 P.M. sharp!
$125 | QCA Member price: $100
Ticket price includes open bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres.
Join us for an evening like never before at the Quick as we turn our entire space upside down and inside out. The night begins in the Wien Experimental Theatre as all hell breaks loose with Frédérick Gravel and his rock and roll infused dance work. We then move through the transformed “wood-shop” for libations and treats, and onto the Kelley Theatre stage to dance the night away with the raw, gritty, magnetism of Betty Bonifassi. It will be a night to remember!
Frédérick Gravel
Tout Se Pète La Gueule, Chérie (All Hell is Breaking Loose, Honey)
Performed with live music, it is a tale of distraught men, the run-of-the-mill North American male — clad with T-shirts, baseball caps, cowboy boots, beer bellies and their hesitations, outbursts of violence, confusion, brusque changes of mood, right, left, front, and back, lurching in a drunken haze of beer and powerlessness.
Betty Bonifassi
Currently one of Canada’s great voices, Betty Bonifassi exudes a powerful personal magnetism. Her latest project is an ambitious album paying tribute to African-American and Black prisoners’ songs from the 1920s, collected by ethno-musicologist Alan Lomax in the Southern United States. The power of her voice highlights these chants, and is accentuated by her band’s musical approach bringing a sound to the stage that is raw, gritty, and truthful.
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia in
Guess How Much I Love You & I Love My Little Storybook
Sunday, October 15, 2017 | 3 P.M.
$20 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $15
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia adapts Guess How Much I Love You , the award-winning classic from author Sam McBratney, and the endearing I Love My Little Story Book . Illustrated by Anita Jeram, these cherished stories come to life as the acclaimed Mermaid Theatre brings its whimsical puppetry, dreamlike imagery, and original music to these two beloved childhood stories.
Compagnie Hervé Koubi in
What the Day Owes to the Night
Thursday, October 19, 2017 | 8 P.M.
$45, $40 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $30
Drawing creative strength from his Algerian roots and Mediterranean culture, French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi has created a jaw-dropping performance in What the Day Owes to the Night ( Ce Que le Jour Doit à la Nuit ), packed with backflips, head spins, and a transcendent emotional intensity. The all-male cast from Algeria and West Africa share their combined skills in contemporary, street, and urban dance movements, capoeira, and martial arts in a piece that celebrates the power of the body in motion while recognizing the brotherhood of these dancers coming together from different religious and cultural backgrounds.
The Met: Live in HD
Die Zauberflöte
(Mozart)
Saturday, October 28, 2017
1 P.M. (encore) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts the full-length German version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s magical fable, seen in Julie Taymor’s spectacular production, which captures both the opera’s earthy comedy and its noble mysticism.
All in the Family: Orin Grossman, Jerry Grossman, and Korliss Uecker
Sunday, October 29, 2017 | 3 P.M.
$35, $30 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $22
Emeritus Professor Orin Grossman returns to the Quick for a rare concert with members of his remarkable musical family — brother Jerry Grossman is principle cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Jerry’s wife, Korliss Uecker, is a well-known operatic soprano whose career includes over 150 performances with the Metropolitan Opera.
Eddie at 80
Eddie Palmieri
Sunday, November 5, 2017 | 3 P.M.
$60, $50 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $38
Eddie at 80 celebrates Eddie Palmieri as he is joined by his world famous Latin jazz band for an afternoon that highlights his most influential and popular works from throughout his storied career. With 10 Grammys, 36 recordings, and a musical career that spans over 50 years as a pianist, bandleader, and composer of salsa and Latin jazz, Eddie Palmieri’s contribution to Latin music is unparalleled.
Habib Koité & Bamada
Friday, November 10, 2017 | 8 P.M.
$40, $35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
Hailing from the musically prolific West African nation of Mali, Habib Koité is a modern troubadour with extraordinary appeal due to his musicianship, wit, and wisdom. The guitarist and composer has been named the biggest pop star of the region by Rolling Stone and, as noted by The New York Times , “his reputation as a guitar player has become almost mythical, combining rock and classical techniques with Malian tunings that make the guitar sound like a kora or ngoni.”
“Koité’s voracious musical curiosity, broad international fan base, impressive CD sales, and fruitful collaboration with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Eric Bibb, and Gary Davis, have made him a prominent global voice.” ~ Roots
A Voice of Conscience: Uncovering Mass Murder from the Holocaust to Today
Father Patrick Desbois
Open VISIONS Forum
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | 8 P.M.
$35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
The 20 th Annual Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lectureship, in affiliation with the Carl & Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
On a personal “holy mission” of identifying and marking at least 1.5 million graves of murdered victims of Nazism killing squads, Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest and professor at Georgetown University, has devoted his life to awakening the world’s attention to mass genocide. He made world news headlines for his pioneering efforts uncovering the Third Reich’s killing fields of Eastern Europe and the Ukraine. His award winning book, The Holocaust by Bullets , is an autobiography, travelogue, and collection of transcripts as he revisited dozens of sites where Hitler’s soldiers and local militias brutally executed Jews.
This program is made possible through the generosity of the Frank Jacoby Foundation of Bridgeport.
The Met: Live in HD
The Exterminating Angel
(Adès)
Sunday, November 19, 2017
1 P.M. (encore) and 6 P.M. (encore)
12:15 P.M. Pre-talk
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
Following the rapturous response to his last opera,
The Tempest
, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s
The Exterminating Angel
, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera.
John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey
Sunday, December 3, 2017 | 3 P.M.
$60, $50 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $38
Guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli returns to the Quick joined on stage by the equally charming Broadway star and singer extraordinaire, Jessica Molaskey (who happens to be his wife). Along with his trio, the duo will share their rich, original interpretations of songs from the Great American Songbook mixed with Christmas classics that will have you humming along and excited to celebrate the holiday season with family and friends.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Friday, January 26, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$50, $40 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $30
Considered by many to be America’s greatest living choreographer, Paul Taylor is a founder and towering icon of America’s indigenous art form of modern dance. The Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the Quick with a program that features a roster of classic works and audience favorites.
The Met: Live in HD
Tosca
(Puccini)
Saturday, January 27, 2018
1 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
Rivaling the splendor of Franco Zeffirelli’s set and costumes of the Napoleonic era, Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production of Giacomo Puccini’s opera offers a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Kristine Opolais and Anna Netrebko.
Freedom: Seeking Justice in America
An Evening with Dr. Angela Davis
Fairfield University Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation
Open VISIONS Forum
Thursday, February 1, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
In conjunction with the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, we are honored to present Dr. Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California. As one of the most iconic faces of black politics and social activism beginning in the 1960s, Davis gained international recognition in combating all forms of oppression. Her work as an educator, author, human rights activist, and public intellectual articulates a vision of building communities for economic, racial, and gender equality. Her testimony will inspire our University community towards making our nation and world more aware of the long struggle — past, present, and future — ensuring that freedom results in democratic institutions founded on social justice.
Learn more about the many programs offered as part of Fairfield University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week by visiting Fairfield.edu.
Octavia E. Butler's
Parable of the Sower
A CONCERT PERFORMANCE
Music & Lyrics by Toshi Reagon & Bernice Johnson Reagon
Directed by Eric Ting
Friday & Saturday, February 2 & 3, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$50, $40 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $30
Featuring a powerhouse ensemble of 20 singers and musicians, this genre-defying concert performance brings together 30 powerful songs drawn from 200 years of Black music to give musical life to author Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed science fiction novel, Parable of the Sower . Written by Toshi Reagon, who Vibe Magazine called “one helluva rock’n’roller-coaster ride,” in collaboration with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, the iconic singer, scholar, activist, and founder of the celebrated ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, Parable of the Sower becomes a mesmerizing theatrical work of rare power and beauty that reveals deep insights on gender, race, and the future of human civilization.
The Met: Live in HD
L’Elisir d’Amore
(Donizetti)
Saturday, February 10, 2018
12 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
11:15 P.M. Pre-talk
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met with her first Adina opposite Matthew Polenzani, who enthralled Met audiences as Nemorino in 2013 with his ravishing “Una furtiva lagrima.” Bartlett Sher’s production of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera is charming, with deft comedic timing, but also emotionally revealing. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.
Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet
Sunday, February 11, 2018 | 3 P.M.
$45, $40 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $30
One of the few existing ensembles of this instrumentation, the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet has existed as a Berlin Philharmonic chamber music ensemble since 1985, uniting three permanent members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Konzertmeister Andreas Buschatz, violist Matthew Hunter, and cellist Knut Weber, with renowned concert pianist Markus Groh.
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
Friday, February 16, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$40, $35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
Four-time Princess Grace Award recipient, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, and Doris Duke Performing Artist Award-winner Camille Brown shares her unique perspective in her work BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play , revealing the complexity of carving out a self-defined identity as a black female in urban American culture. By using the rhythmic play of African-American dance vernacular — including social dancing, double dutch, steppin’, tap, Juba, ring shout, and gesture — as the black woman’s domain to evoke childhood memories of self-discovery.
A Fresh Perspective on Global Affairs: An Evening with the BBC’s Katty Kay
Open VISIONS Forum
Thursday, February 22, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
Offering us a candid, outsider’s look at events within Washington’s Beltway, Katty Kay brings her sharp insights in helping us understand how and why America’s national and foreign agendas are full of risk and opportunity. Join us to be engaged by her lively wit, humor, and common sense, as Kay points out where the Washington establishment is polarizing versus unifying; how our national leaders are succeeding or failing.
The Met: Live in HD
La Bohème
(Puccini)
Saturday, February 24, 2018
12:30 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
The world’s most popular opera by Giacomo Puccini returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, with an exciting casts: Angel Blue, Anita Hartig, and Sonya Yoncheva share the role of the fragile Mimì, with Dmytro Popov, Russell Thomas, and Michael Fabiano alternating as the poet Rodolfo.
Childsplay presents
Go, Dog. Go!
Sunday, February 25, 2018 | 3 P.M.
$20 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $15
Go, Dog. Go! is a musical romp full of surprises, clowning, vaudeville, singing (maybe a touch of barking), and of course, six lovable dogs! Go, Dog. Go! brings the adventures of P.D. Eastman’s book to life in a frolicking musical dog party.
U.S. PREMIERE OF THE REVIVAL
Ultima Vez
In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
Created by Wim Vandekeybus
Friday, March 2, 2018 | 8 P.M.
Saturday, March 3, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$55, $45 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $35
In 1999, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting caused a huge international stir. For the first time, Bessie Award-winner Wim Vandekeybus created a performance not about the chemistry between men and women, but a primal desire in a world of men alone — fierce, wild, naïve, and playful. Captivating dance sequences underpinned by the sensual soundtrack by David Byrne, founding member of Talking Heads, are accompanied by the short film entitled The Last Words , made by Vandekeybus himself and based on two stories by Julio Cortázar.
The Met: Live in HD
Semiramide
(Rossini)
Saturday, March 10, 2018
1 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
Gioachino Rossini’s masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance — its first in nearly 25 years — with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star bel canto cast features Angela Meade in the title role of the murderous Queen of Babylon, and a trouser role sung by Elizabeth DeShong.
The Met: Live in HD
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Saturday, March 31, 2018
1 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
A winning cast including Tony Award-winner Kelli O’Hara comes together for Phelim McDermott’s clever vision of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comedy about the sexes, set in a carnival-esque, funhouse environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island — complete with bearded ladies, fire eaters, and a Ferris wheel.
Moscow Festival Ballet in
Giselle
Friday, April 6, 2018 | 8 P.M.
$55, $45 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $35
Giselle Package: $85 for both performances
In the great tradition of the grand ballet, the internationally renowned Moscow Festival Ballet performs Giselle , the romantic tale of a young peasant girl who falls in love with a count disguised as a villager. This stunning production is filled with brilliant choreography, a haunting score, and resplendent costumes and sets.
The Met: Live in HD
Luisa Miller
(Verdi)
Saturday, April 14, 2018
12:30 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
James Levine and Plácido Domingo add yet another chapter to their legendary Met collaboration with this rarely performed Giussepe Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love.
Giselle
By Dada Masilo
Wednesday, April 18, 2018| 8 P.M.
$45, $35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
Giselle Package: $85 for both performances
Witness the extraordinary power and magnetism of dancer and choreographer, Dado Masilo. She has a deep love for the classics — from Shakespeare to Tchaikovsky, from Ballet to Flamenco. As a dancer, she has impressed with her signature speed and is known to imbue her roles with a precocious theatricality. As choreographer, she has been amazingly daring, tackling the `big’ stories and boldly fusing dance techniques; musically, mixing the original scores with twentieth century composers and performers.
After receiving critical acclaim for her previous reinterpretations of great classics including Romeo and Juliet , Carmen , and Swan Lake , Masilo has set her sights on a new story. As with these previous works, Masilo’s latest reimagining of Giselle will be a feminist revision of the classic. Masilo's vision will be of grief, heartbreak, anger, and revenge. As her hashtag notes #NOTAPRETTYBALLET
TheatreworksUSA in
The Lightning Thief
Sunday, April 15, 2018 | 3 P.M.
$20 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $15
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Now Percy has ten days to find and return Zeus’ stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
Machine de Cirque
Friday, April 20, 2018 | 8 P.M.
Saturday, April 21, 2018 | 2 P.M.
$45, $35 | $5 Fairfield University students
QCA Member price: $27
Wildly acrobatic, poetic, and humorous, Machine de Cirque presents a show for the whole family! These five wacky characters are full of contagious spirit all while masterfully handling the teeterboard, juggling clubs, drum kit, and even bath towels. Putting themselves in perilous situations, they offer their souls as well as their bodies to make you laugh, to move you, and to dazzle you.
The Met: Live in HD
Cendrillon (
Massenet)
Saturday, April 28, 2018
1 P.M. (live) and 6 P.M. (encore)
$30 | $25 Seniors | $5 Children/Students
QCA Member price: $20
Now, for the first time ever, Jules Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with Joyce DiDonato starring in the title role. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.
DBR
En Masse
Sunday, April 29, 2018 | 12 P.M. – 3 P.M.
Free and open to the general public
Fairfield University Campus
Featuring 12 musical vignettes that can be performed by 5 to 500 musicians, En Masse, composed by Haitian-American composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (aka DBR) and directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, is a large-scale, participatory outdoor performance event inviting audience members to experience what it is like to be inside a “deconstructed parade.” This collective musical celebration — a cross between a flash mob and a processional — will feature hundreds of performers from throughout Fairfield County, spread out along the campus of Fairfield University. Visitors are invited to follow groups of musicians on their path and stay for an hour, or experience the entire musical marathon.
The Young Artists Series
Sunday, March 4, 2018 | 2 P.M.
Sunday, March 25, 2018 | 2 P.M.
Sunday, May 6, 2018 | 2 P.M.
Wien Experimental Theatre
This event is free, but tickets are required. To make a reservation, call the box office at 203-254-4010.
In collaboration with the New York International Piano Competition and the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, the Quick Center for the Arts is pleased to bring gifted young pianists in recital three times each year.
Global Theatre: A Performance Series
21st Century Women and Ancient Greek Tragedy
Curated by Martha S. LoMonaco, Katherine A. Schwab, and Sara Brill
Antigone, Iphigenia, Medea — some of the most captivating figures in western drama — are title roles in ancient Greek tragedies. These formidable characters were wholly the creation of men since women could not write plays nor perform in public during the Golden Age of Greek Theatre in the 5th century B.C.E. On stage, these women, originally played by male actors, enjoyed central roles but, like their real life counterparts, were vulnerable and held no power outside the home. Yet, their power as characters has enthralled audiences for 25 centuries and has inspired women, and anyone who has struggled to gain rights and privileges throughout the world, to acts of great courage and determination.
21st Century Women and Ancient Greek Tragedy is sponsored by the Fairfield University Humanities Institute.
Unless otherwise noted, events are free. Registration is required by contacting the Quick Center Box Office at 203-254-4010.
Iphigenia: Book of Change
Written and directed by Elise Kermani
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | 5 P.M.
Dr. Katherine Schwab will lead a Q&A with Dr. Kermani following the screening.
Iphigenia—Book of Change is the film of a live performance piece inspired by Euripides’s plays of Iphigenia as well as stories of contemporary women who have survived captivity.
Theatre Fairfield and
Antigone
:
Sophokles’s
Antigone
in a new translation by Anne Carson
Directed by Dr. Martha S. LoMonaco
Theatre Fairfield
October 25-28, 2017 | 8 P.M. & October 28-29, 2017 | 2 P.M.
$15 | $5 Fairfield University students
Antigone boldly speaks truth to power, instigating a battle of wills with her uncle, King Kreon, who condemns her to death and destroys his family. Carson’s refreshing translation brings Sophokles’s classic tragedy into the present day.
Feminism & Greek Tragedy Roundtable
Thursday, November 2, 2017 | 5 P.M.
Moderated by Dr. Sara Brill, this program brings together three feminist scholars who grapple with ancient Greek texts: Dr. Yurie Hong, Gustavus Adolphus College; Dr. Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, University of Buffalo; and Dr. Danielle Layne, Gonzaga University.
Keynote address with Ellen McLaughlin
Thursday, November 2, 2017 | 8 P.M.
Ellen McLaughlin ― playwright, actor, and director ― will discuss and perform segments from her adaptations of six Greek tragedies, commissioned by leading American theatre companies in response to political crises throughout the world. McLaughlin is best known as the originator of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America , a role which she played on Broadway and throughout the U.S.
American Music Series Listening Sessions
America’s Musical Melting Pot
Curated by Fuzz and Carrie Sangiovanni
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | 6 P.M.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | 6 P.M.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | 6 P.M.
Wien Experimental Theatre
$15 General Public | Free for Quick Members, however registration is required by contacting the Box Office at 203-254-4010.
Inspired by the big band swing era, the Quintette du Hot Club de France, and early American folk music, Fuzz and Carrie Sangiovanni are the fervent musical couple who front their band, Caravan of Thieves. America's Musical Melting Pot will share the essential role cultural diversity in America has played in defining its music over the past 100 years.
Interspersed with all of these new offerings are screenings of the National Theatre Live, and additional programs added throughout the season.
For the full schedule , prices and to order tickets, visit quickcenter.com or call the Box Office at 203-254-4010 or toll-free 1-877-ARTS-396. Events take place at the Quick Center unless otherwise noted.
Subscription packages go on sale for the general public on July 8. Single tickets go on sale on July 22. To find out how to get tickets earlier by becoming a Quick Center member, call 203-254-4010, or e-mail membership@quickcenter.com
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