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Wooster Group, The

WOOSTER GROUP, THE

  
Nationality:    USA
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The Wooster Group is a company of artists who make work for theater, dance, and media. We are based in New York City at The Performing Garage at 33 Wooster Street, where we develop and perform our work. We also perform our work at larger theaters in New York (Baryshnikov Arts Center, St. Ann's Warehouse, the Public Theater). Our productions tour nationally and internationally.

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         Brace Up!         Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida)         Dances With T.V. And Mic         Early Shaker Spirituals         Emperor Jones, The         Erase-E(X)         Fish Story         For The Good Tlmes         Frank Dell's The Temptatlon Of St. Antony         Hairy Ape, The         Hamlet         House/Lights         Hula         I Am Jerome Bel         L.S.D. (. . .Just The High Points. . .)         La Didone         Nayatt School         North Atlantic         Point Judith (An Epilog)         Poor Theater         Route 1 & 9         Rumstick Road         Sakonnet Point         To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)         Vieux Carre         Who's Your Dada?!

Brace Up!

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
from Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    18 Jan 1991

Organisations:
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Further Reference:
http://www.thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?brace-up

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Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida)

Synopsis:
The Wooster Groups newest production, Cry, Trojans!, tackles the Trojan side of Shakespeares dark and scabrous Trojan War play about sincere love corrupted and the downfall of a noble hero. The piece originated as a co-production between The Wooster Group and the Royal Shakespeare Company for the World Shakespeare Festival, presented in conjunction with the 2012 London Olympics. In that version, the RSC played the Greeks and the Group played the Trojans. Director Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group have converted the collaboration into an independent piece, reimagining the Trojans as a pastiche fictional tribe of early Americans struggling to assert its dignity in the face of doom.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare. CRY, TROJANS! (Troilus & Cressida) began as a co-production with the Royal Shakespeare Company. That original production, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, was commissioned by the RSC for the World Shakespeare Festival, produced for the London 2012 Olympics Festival.

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    08 Jan 2014

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?troilus-and-cressida

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Dances With T.V. And Mic

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1st Produced:
-    1998

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Genre:
Dance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Early Shaker Spirituals

Synopsis:
In EARLY SHAKER SPIRITUALS, The Wooster Group channels the 1976 LP of the same name recorded by the Sisters of the Shaker Community in Sabbathday Lake, Maine, giving a new live rendering to their songs and finding inspiration for a series of dances. Cynthia Hedstrom, Elizabeth LeCompte, Frances McDormand and Suzzy Roche sing the songs. In the dances, the singers are joined by Matthew Brown, Modesto Jimenez, Bobby McElver, Bebe Miller and Andrew Schneider. EARLY SHAKER SPIRITUALS returns to an artistic practice that the Group has used throughout its history: working with record albums as source material for original productions, among them HULA (1981) and L.S.D. (&JUST THE HIGH POINTS&) (1984). The piece also expresses the Groups long-standing interest in the Shakers, a millenarian, celibate, communitarian sect. In 1980, Elizabeth LeCompte, Kate Valk and other members of the company visited the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community and met with Sister R. Mildred Barker. Around that time, the company first began listening to the record album that forms the basis for this new piece.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    17 May2014

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?early-shaker-spirituals

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Emperor Jones, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
By Eugene ONeill

1st Produced:
Frankfurt, Germany    19 Nov 1992

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?the-emperor-jones

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Erase-E(X)

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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

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Genre:
Dance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Fish Story

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Text: Act IV of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as translated by Paul Schmidt, and excerpts from Geinin (1977), a documentary film.

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    29 Dec 1993

Organisations:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?fish-story

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For The Good Tlmes

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1982

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Genre:
Dance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Frank Dell's The Temptatlon Of St. Antony

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Road To Immortality. Based on Gustave Flauberts La Tentation de Saint Antoine

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    16 Sep 1988

Organisations:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?frank-dells-the-temptation-of-st-antony

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Hairy Ape, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
By Eugene ONeill

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    24 Jan 1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?the-hairy-ape

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Hamlet

Synopsis:
In The Wooster Group's HAMLET, Shakespeare's classic tragedy is re-imagined by mixing and repurposing Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway production, directed by John Gielgud. The Burton production was recorded in live performance from 17 camera angles and edited into a film that was shown as a special event for only two days in nearly 1,000 movie houses across the U.S. The idea of bringing a live theater experience to thousands of simultaneous viewers in different cities was trumpeted as a new form called "Theatrofilm," made possible through "the miracle of Electronovision." The Wooster Group attempts to reverse the process, reconstructing a hypothetical theater piece from the fragmentary evidence of the edited film. We channel the ghost of the legendary 1964 performance, descending into a kind of madness, intentionally replacing our own spirit with the spirit of another.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Festival Grec in Barcelona, Spain    27 Jun 2006

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?hamlet

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House/Lights

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Kanonhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark    28 Oct 1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?house-lights

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Hula

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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I Am Jerome Bel

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dance

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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L.S.D. (. . .Just The High Points. . .)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Road To Immortality

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    22 Mar 1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?lsd-just-the-high-points

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La Didone

Synopsis:
In The Wooster Group's production of LA DIDONE, Francesco Cavalli's 1641 opera, with libretto by Francesco Busenello, collides with Mario Bava's cult movie Terrore nello spazio (1965) in a war-like symbiosis, dropping Aeneas' ships onto a forbidding planetary landscape and forming a synergy between early baroque opera and pre-moonlanding sci-fi.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Kaii Theater, Brussels, Belgium    19 May 2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
opera

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?la-didone

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Nayatt School

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Three Places In Rhode Island

1st Produced:
-    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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North Atlantic

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Globe Theater in Eindhoven, The Netherlands    Jun 1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?north-atlantic

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Point Judith (An Epilog)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Three Places In Rhode Island

1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Poor Theater

Synopsis:
a series of simulacra

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    19 Nov 2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?poor-theater

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Route 1 & 9

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Road To Immortality

1st Produced:
The Performing Garage in New York City    08 Oct 1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?route-1-and-9

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Rumstick Road

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Three Places In Rhode Island

1st Produced:
-    1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Sakonnet Point

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Three Places In Rhode Island

1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Festival D'Automne, Centre Pompidou - Paris, France    28 Dec 2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?to-you-the-birdie

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Vieux Carre

Synopsis:
Like Williams' first big success The Glass Menagerie, Vieux Carré (1977) is a "memory play," set in the boarding house in New Orleans where Williams himself stayed as a young man during the Depression. The young writer, as narrator, remembers his artistic and sexual awakening there. Inhabitants of the house swirl up out of the writer's mind as archetypal Williams characters, longing for release and haunted by thwarted dreams. In The Wooster Group's version of Vieux Carré, the Group experiments with new modes of expression for Williams' lyric voice.

Notes:
play written by Tennessee Williams

1st Produced:
Festival Premieres at Theatre National in Strasbourg, France    06 Nov 2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  ddancer, voice

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?vieux-carre

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Who's Your Dada?!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Museum of Modern Art in The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby    06 Sep 2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://thewoostergroup.org/twg/twg.php?whos-your-dada

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