Romeo Castellucci
Julius Caesar. Spared Parts.
New York Premiere
Fri, Sep 30 at 9pm
Sat, Oct 1 at 3 & 5pm
Sun, Oct 2 at 3 & 5pm
SOLD OUT
Federal Hall
26 Wall Street,
New York, NY 10005
For his New York City debut, Castellucci deconstructs Julius Caesar into a brief, phantasmagorical dreamscape set among the marble columns of Federal Hall, birthplace of the American republic. Shakespeare’s famous speeches are transformed into an almost unrecognizable meditation on mortality and meaning as they are delivered by statuesque figures whose bodies are quite literally turned inside out. Touching on democracy, rhetoric, and ritual, this visceral encounter is theater at its most disturbing and most transcendent.
Fri Preview: FIAF Members $45 / Non-Members $55
Sat & Sun: FIAF Members $25 / Non-Members $35
Supported by Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
Special thanks to Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)
“Each performance is a threat of provocation, a suspension of reality, a fissure in the real.”
Romeo Castellucci is one of Europe’s most radical and acclaimed theater directors and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Venice Biennale (2013). He draws from theater, music, visual art, and the human unconscious, to create a visual language that is provocative and discomforting.