OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES
(A TRUE ROMANCE)
OLD FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE)
OLD FASHIONED PROSTITUTES is Chamber Theatre, betwixt expressionism and surrealism in its dreamlike game of picking the pieces of a memory in ruins.
It navigates amid lyrism and sarcasm in a narration which strives to reconstruct the sentimental journey of a young man who aged lost within the mundane and the platonic ‒ a pursue of meaning for existences led astray from the redeemer pleasure, from the saving desire, and of a Self sacrificed on the absurd altar.
ABOUT RICHARD FOREMAN
Richard Foreman, born in 1937, is an American playwriter, pioneer of avant-garde and performative theater, that created the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
Brown University BA, (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) l959, Yale Drama School, MFA (Playwriting) l962. Honorary Doctorate Brown University 1993.
Richard Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays both in New York City and abroad. Five of his plays have received "OBIE" awards as best play of the year—and he has received five other "OBIE'S" for directing and for 'sustained achievement'. He has received the annual Literature award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Lifetime Achievement in the Theater" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Club Master American Dramatist Award, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, and in 2004 was elected officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His archives and work materials have recently been acquired by the Bobst Library at NYU.
Foreman is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Ontological-Hysteric Theater (1968-present). Since the early seventies his work and company have been funded by the NEA, NYSCA, as well as many other foundations and private individuals. In the early 1980s, a branch of the theater was established in Paris and funded by the French government. Foreman's plays have been co-produced by such organizations as The New York Shakespeare Festival, La Mama, The Wooster Group and the Festival d'Autumn in Paris and the Vienna Festival. He has collaborated (as librettist and stage director) with composer Stanley Silverman on 8 music theater pieces produced by The Music Theater Group & The New York City Opera. He wrote and directed the feature film, Strong Medicine.
Seven collections of his plays have already been published, and books studying his work have been published in New York, Paris, Berlin and Tokyo.
CREDITS
Playwright – Richard Foreman. Directed and Light by Lenerson Polonini. Traduced by Fábio Fonseca. Cast – Fábio Mraz, Carina Casuscelli, Joelle Malta and Rafael Schmitt. Costumes – Carina Casuscelli. Soundtrack – Wilson Sukorski. Videos – Alexandre Ferraz. Sound control – Felipe Moraes. Light control – Verônica Castro. Image control – Téo Ponciano. Produced by Companhia Nova de Teatro.