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Esther Neff

ESTHER NEFF

  
Nationality:    USA
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Esther Neff's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Esther Neff's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Explanation In Three Parts         Last Dreams of Helene Weigel, The or How to Get Rid of the Feminism Once and For All         On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians

Explanation In Three Parts

Synopsis:
theater company Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) and experimental music ensemble thingNY construct a vast, subjective map of ideas, a documentary about time itself. the absurdity of completely explaining the subjective histories, cultural role, and science of time is balanced with the earnest attempt to do just that. This musically-driven performance art piece features performers of radically different backgrounds working together to create a form of performance that exists simultaneously in and outside of time, expressing and describing through video, web-based durational media and an accompanying printed book that extends the performance beyond the duration of the live performance. the work is influenced by the chance-based and aleatoric modes of the music of John Cage and Gerard Grisey, the durational modes of the performance art of Tehching Hsieh and Bas Jan Ader, as well as the philosophies and science of Husserl, Einstein, William James, Heidegger, and many others.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    04 May 2011

Organisations:
Panoply Performance Laboratory

1st Published:
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Music:
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piece

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Last Dreams of Helene Weigel, The or How to Get Rid of the Feminism Once and For All

Synopsis:
the Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of the Feminism Once and For All is an experimental documentary opera following Helene Weigel, Bertolt Brecht's wife and "the greatest actress who ever lived," as she snaps the neck of a wild swan, escapes robbery by door-to-door linoleum salesmen, and makes covert visits in her dreams to the nunnery cell of Heloise d'Argenteuil, the 12th century philosopher best known in light of her lover Abelard's castration. Helene is also haunted by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, the self-proclaimed "worst woman in the world." Using these women as detailed examples of female constructions of self, PPL asks; is it true that women conceive themselves as a pattern of interconnections? Is "construction of self" a concept constructed by a male-centric philosophy of being? How have women felt about being women? Is one woman representative of every woman?
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
created by Brian McCorkle, Esther Neff, And the Panoply Performance Laboratory

1st Produced:
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, NY    15 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Panoply Performance Laboratory

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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians

Synopsis:
German playwright and comparative anatomist Georg Buchner dissects hundreds of fish in the basement of his girlfriend's home, attempts to explain ideas that don't yet exist, distributes vague political leaflets that get his friends tortured and killed, and writes what we now consider the first expressionist plays. Buchner's short, violent life and his bizarre medical thesis on the cranial nerves of the barbus catfish are that impossible in-between evolutionary creature, the fish with legs, the dinosaur with budding wings
- press release

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Genre:
experimental operetta

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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