WeildWorks is pleased to announce the New York Premiere of Fêtes de la Nuit, Charles L. Mee's sexy meditation on lust, beauty and the divine experience of love. Fêtes de la Nuit is directed and choreographed by Kim Weild, who incorporates American Sign Language into a production that features three Deaf actors. The show runs from February 8 - 27, 2010 in a limited engagement at the Ohio Theatre, located at 66 Wooster Street (between Spring & Broome) in Soho, NY. Previews began February 8 for a February 11 opening.
Performances are Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8pm with additional performances on Saturday 2/20 at 3pm and Tuesday 2/23 at 8pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at http://www.BrownPaperTickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006. The performance includes strong language and nudity - no one under 15 years old will be admitted. Trains: R, W to Prince St. or 6, C, E to Spring St. For more information on the show visit http://www.Fetesnyc.com.
A deliciously naughty valentine to Paris, Fêtes de la Nuit celebrates life, love and all things Parisian, weaving together a pulsating collage of dance, live music, tango, language, video and drama. Set in a sidewalk café in 21st century Paris, Fêtes reveals that from first kisses to eternal bonds, a quiet truth remains: it is always love that makes us human. Fêtes de la Nuit, translated as "celebrations of the night", sensually expresses the beauty, complexity and passion of the human condition in relationship to the divine experience of lust and love.
Charles L. Mee's works include Big Love, True Love, First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women: A Love Story, Summertime and Wintertime, among other plays. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival and Steppenwolf, as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna and Istanbul. Mee is the recipient of the gold medal for lifetime achievement in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Obie winner. He is also an historian and the former Editor-in-Chief of Horizon magazine. Mee's work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher. His complete works are available on the internet at http://www.CharlesMee.org.
Kim Weild has worked extensively as Associate Director to Michael Blakemore, including on the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit, which starred Angela Lansbury, Terrence McNally's Deuce, which starred Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes, and Mark Twain/David Ives' Is He Dead? She has also associate directed for Tina Landau on Tarell McCraney's WIG OUT! at the Vineyard Theatre and Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 at The Signature Theater. Weild's other work includes Kaddish (or the Key in the Window) by Allen Ginsberg, Andrea Lepcio's A Peddler's Tale: Buttons, Guts and Bluetooth (The Women's Project) and Free Range Thanksgiving (Foundry Theatre). She is the recipient of a Kennedy Center Directing Fellowship, Shubert Fellow, 2006 Williamstown Theatre Festival Foeller Fellow and is a Women's Project alumna.
The eighteen member cast includes three Deaf actors; Alexandria Wailes (Mother Courage and Her Children with The Public, TONY Award winning Big River at Roundabout with Deaf West, Pippin at Mark Taper Forum with Deaf West), Jubil Khan and John McGinty, along with Danyon Davis, Jodi Dick, Corinne Edgerly (Drama Desk Award winning All The Way Home with Transport Group), Babis Gousias, Jessica Green (Dralion with Cirque du Soleil), Ana Grosse, Christine Rebecca Herzog, Itsuko Higashi, Kyle Knauf (Obie winning Benten Kozo at The Flea Theater), Khris Lewin (Time Is the Mercy of Eternity at the West End Theatre), Donnie Mather (Trojan Women: A Love Story directed by Tina Landau), Luis Moreno (The Age of Iron and The Misanthrope at Classic Stage Company), Mirabelle Ordinaire and Rumiko Oyama.
The design and production team consists of Jamie Forshaw (Producer), Lewis Merkin (American Sign Language Consultant), Henry Hewes Design Award winner Brian Scott (Set Design), Charles Foster (Lighting Design), Lisa Renee Jordan (Costume Design), Christian Frederickson (Sound Design), C. Andrew Bauer (Video), Ismael Ramirez (Film), Mirabelle Ordinaire (Dramaturg) and Victoria Flores (Stage Manager).
WeildWorks is a newly established non-profit company that seeks to explore and develop theatrical events through cross-cultural collaborations. The NY Premiere of Charles Mee's Fêtes de la Nuit is its inaugural show.
