Imminent, Indeed

August 16-26, 2006   

 

 

 

 

 

 

New York International Fringe Festival (FRINGENYC):

The Actor’s Playhouse

Greenwich Village

100 7th Avenue South at Christopher  St.

 

Subway:

1 to Christopher St./Sheridan Square BDFVACE to West 4th

 

Dates:

Wednesday

August 16

9:45PM

Wednesday

August 23

2:45PM

Thursday

August 24

5PM

Friday

August 25

8:45PM

Saturday

August 26

Noon

 

Just click on the performance you’d like to see to be directed to how to buy tickets!

 

 

The Story

Wherein mathematical wunderkind, Miss Polly Peachum, descends most egregiously into the netherworld of villainous scoundrels captained by the nefarious Macheath. A macabre, post-modern gothic tale of innocence lost and wisdom gained. Knowledge is a dangerous, seductive tincture, is it not?

 

Read the rave review by clicking here!

 

About Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum’s Peculiar Penchant for Plosives):

It’s a familiar story, the one about a mercurial con-artist named Macheath who seduces his way through London breathing down bustiers, sliding hands up petticoats and wreaking all manner of havoc along the way. You may know it as The Beggar’s Opera (John Gay, 1728) or Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill, 1928) or, yet again, The Beggar’s Opera (Vaclev Havel, 1975). 

 

For this tenth annual Fringe Festival, we’ve cooked up a tale of sublime treachery and clever deception, of innocence lost and sagacity gained, of a wicked bastard named Macheath and his lovely prey, Polly Peachum . . . as told from a distinctly feminine perspective. You might barely recognize it, but we assure you, ain’t nothing crazier then a bunch of women making a net to capture a mastadon. Which is to say, rather impoliticly, femininity has its own particular brand of ferocity, and Polly Peachum’s world is only just expanding.

 

 

 

 

Other cool things to check out . . .

 

NYTheatre.com Preview

 

NYTheatre.com Podcast hosted by Martin Denton

 

Photos: Rehearsal, Dolls, Macheath

 

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