Thinking Theater NYC

Beckett. Women. – an evening of three short plays by Samuel Beckett Directed and designed by Diana Zhdanova Presented by AnomalousCo at HERE 145 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, NYC July 26-30, 2023 Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Ylfa Edelstein, and Lesya Verba. Photo by Jarrett Robertson. It is tempting to argue that Samuel Beckett's particular marriage of experimental form with spare lyricism and compassionate cynicism remains unique in the dramatic canon. Beckett. Women. , from transdisciplinary performance collective AnomalousCo, stages a trio of Beckett's short plays centered on women, Footfalls , Not I , and Rockaby , bringing its own unique vision to these works as it places them into dialogue with one another. Designed and directed by AnomalousCo Co-Artistic Director Diana Zhdanova, a queer dissident artist from Russia, the show features a triad of spellbinding solo performances from women artists that vividly demonstrate the enduring power of these plays. The evening begins with...

Photo: Jarrett Robertson Beginning next week,  AnomalousCo , a predominantly queer woman-led, nearly all immigrant, feminist, transdisciplinary performance collective, will present  (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling  from February 16th to 26th at Manhattan's HERE Arts Center . The show is set in an imagined theater in which women from different periods and places come together for shelter from war. By means of this setting,  (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling  centers women in its consideration of war, displacement, and resistance. Described as a dramatic cabaret, the production is multilingual and multigenerational, performed by twelve women and one man. The cast members hail from Ukraine, Poland, Iceland, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Scotland, Italy, Cuba, and the United States, and the show's live band is headed by Ukrainian musician and anti-war activist Lesya Verba. (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling incorporates songs from different cultures, eras, and genres, as well as te...