Maia Morgenstern, invited to KulturfestNYC2016

     The Romanian Cultural Institute of New York is sponsoring the participation of actress Maia Morgenstern at KulturfestNYC 2016.

     This year, Maia Morgenstern, actress and manager of the Bucharest Jewish State Theatre, was invited to perform two representations of the play Astă seara: Lola Blau/Tonight: Lola Blau, by Georg Kreisler, at Baruch Performing Arts Center (55 Lexington Ave, New York), on 23 September, from 19:30, and on 25 September, from 21:30. Lola Blau is the alter-ego of author Georg Kreisler. Both the writer and the character are Viennese Jews.  And they both leave Austria in time to escape deportation. Both of them return to Austria after the war, and after they launched their entertainers' careers. Both of them look lucidly at the surrounding reality, which they criticise from the height of a devastating satire, that should destabilise any viewer, no matter how comfortably they sit on their chairs. Directing was signed by Alexandru Dabija, scenography by Puiu Antemir, and the costumes were designed by Doina Levintza and Puiu Antemir.
     On 26 September (at the same location: Baruch Performing Arts Center, at 14:00 and at 19:00), Maia Morgenstern will play in the lecture-performance Nunta din Föhrenwald/The Wedding in Föhrenwald, by H. Leyvick (author of the play Golem), which captures the spiritual and emotional difficulties of returning to normal life of a survivor from a Nazi camp near München. The Wedding in Föhrenwald is a production of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. The performance is directed by Motl Didner, the dummies' designed was made by Stefano Brancato, and the costumes were designed by Izzy Fields.
     All performances have English subtitling.
     Details: Icr.ro