GISELA CARDENAS Director
UPCOMING SHOWS and PROJECTS
CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: An Oresteia
March 18, 2009 to April 12, 2009
New York, NY
From the pen of "one of the most extraordinary poets writing in english" comes the world premiere of Anne Carson's vibrant new translations of the ORESTEIA myth.
PART 1
AGAMEMNON by AESCHYLUS
ELECTRA by SOPHOCLES
Co-directed by Brian Kulick and Gisela Cardenas
PART 2:
ORESTES by EURIPIDES
Directed by Paul Lazar
Choreographed by Anne-B Parsons
PAST SHOWS and PROJECTS
WOMEN'S PROJECT: Director's Lab
September 17, 2008
New York, NY
Gisela has been invited to be part of the 2008-2010 Women's Project Lab.
The WP is a free 2 year program designed for early to mid-career women theater artists. The Lab brings together up to 10 playwrights, 10 directors, and 10 producers who collaborate with one another and with WP staff, guest artists and industry professionals to advance specific theatrical projects and get new work onstage. The WP Lab is a place for experimentation and discovery; it is a place to brainstorm, test ideas, make new connections and realize bold new work for the theater.
FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE by Odon Von Horvath
August 23, 2008 to August 23, 2008
8:00p.m
New York, NY
As part of the Princess Grace Directing Fellowhip a workshop production of the play at INTAR
with:
Beau Allulli
Laura Butler
Jonathan Green
Daniel Irizarry
Maria Helan
Kyle Knauf
Walker Lewis
Marjo-Riikka Makela
INTAR rehearsal space
500 West 52 St 4th Floor
New York- N.Y
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AND FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE
May 15, 2008 | 10:00 am
Ashland, OR
Ashland, Ore.—The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present a reading of Odon von Horvath’s comedy Figaro Gets a Divorce at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, May 15 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. Tickets are $8.00 for adults and $6.00 for members & youth aged 6-17, reserved seating only. Visit www.osfashland.org for tickets online or call (541) 482-4331 or visit the Box Office at 15 South Pioneer Street, Ashland.
Written originally in 1938, Figaro Gets a Divorce is an imagined sequel to Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro. The play starts with Figaro, Susanna, the Count and Countess Almaviva crossing the border of their former country and fleeing a revolution that threatens the life of the former aristocrats. In exile, Figaro and Susanna will have the chance to confront their limits as a couple while the Count and Countess Almaviva will attend "life's school", learning how to live in a place where not only their former status is not recognized but also where they are considered immigrants.
The reading is directed by Gisela Cardenas, the 2008 Phil Killian Directing Fellow at OSF. She says of the play, “For me it is a contemporary Gypsy comedy for exiles, a journey inside the limits of our natures as human beings as well as across cultural differences. A journey that crosses the boundaries of gender and status. In today's world people rarely die where we were born. Limits are less geographical and more and more we are confronted with the biggest riddle Figaro asks in the play: ‘What is it we always look for, never find and keep on losing just the same? Humanity!’”
Odon von Horvath was an Austrian playwright and novelist, born in Fiume, Hungary. After studying in Munich, he emigrated to Vienna in 1933, and to Paris in 1938. In his socially critical plays, still popular today, he used a framework reminiscent of Viennese dialect folk theatre to present a depressing view of the bourgeoisie and the alienating effects of modern life; they include Geschichten aus der Wienerwald, for which he was awarded the Kleist-Preis, Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Cassimir and Caroline and Italienische Nacht (Italian Night). Among his novels are Jugend ohne Gott (1938) and Ein Kind unserer Zeit (1938). He died on the Champs Elysées, killed by a falling branch.
The cast of nine features Tony DeBruno, Christopher DuVal, Robert Vincent Frank, Anthony Heald, Gregory Linington, Dee Maaske, Joseph Midyett, Kimberly Scott and Vilma Silva.
This translation of Figaro Gets a Divorce is by Roger Downey.
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 2008 Phil Killian Directing Fellow
February 18, 2008 to June 15, 2008
Ashland, OR
This four-month Fellowship is designed for early career directors interested in large scale classical theatre and Shakespeare in particular.
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