| Dates: | April 14 - April 28, 2012 |
| Time: | Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm |
| Place: | Bådteatret, Nyhavn 16, Copenhagen |
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Desdemona - A play about a handkerchief
by Paula Vogel
Directed by Barry McKenna
With Sue Hansen-Styles, Lindsay McGill and Angela Heath-Larsen
Desdemona is a bawdy, comic and ironic adaptation of Othello, in which the three female characters from Shakespeare's great tragedy - Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca - are cast in a very different light.
It is a play for today - strong women struggling for their freedom and to live life on their own terms. Though all three women are tied to strong men, they each know their own minds and have firm ideas about how their lives should be lived.
Cleverly adhering to the plot of Othello, however, Paula Vogel makes their struggles doubly poignant. Tragedy overtakes them and they go to their fate half optimistic, half knowing.
| Dates: | October 24 - November 24, 2012 |
| Time: | Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm |
| Place: | Krudttønden, Serridslevvej 2, Copenhagen Ø |
THAT THEATRE COMPANY and WHY NOT THEATRE COMPANY join forces to present:
Old Times
by Harold Pinter
Directed by Barry McKenna
With Ian Burns, Angela Heath-Larsen and Sue Hansen-Styles
Erotic and sensual, haunting and poetic – a blackly comic play.
So many of Pinter's plays inhabit a predominantly masculine world, in which one person is always trying to get one over another. The rooms in which his dramas are set become battlegrounds - for territory, possession and control.
But in his greatest dramas, women emphatically make their presence felt, too. You only have to think of Betrayal, The Homecoming and of course, this play, to realize what a master Pinter is at conveying the thrill, the mystery and the destructive force of desire.
The action is set in the home of Deeley, a filmmaker, and his wife, Kate, a couple who have been married for 20 years. Their rural fastness, however, is invaded, in characteristic Pinter fashion, by a third party, Anna, who used to share a room with Kate when they were young secretaries in bohemian London, and has now come to visit.
This piece becomes a battle for the possession of Kate – Anna loves her every bit as much as her husband - and a meditation on the impossibility of ever fully knowing the object of our desire.
These are deep, dark waters, where memory mixes with desire.
80 minutes without an interval. Old Times is a brilliant, enigmatic masterpiece
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