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Tag: Ontological-Hysteric Theater

  • Two Avant-Gardists Join Forces

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    The collaboration between John Zorn and Richard Foreman is profiled. Two guys meet on a corner in Manhattan’s East Village. First guy says to the second: “Why don’t you write me an opera?” Second guy shrugs and says “OK.” “It was that simple,” said director Richard Foreman of the spark that led to “Astronome: A…

  • John Zorn Scores Richard Foreman’s Astronome

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    A review of this show is available. Richard Foreman has a stimulus package for those who’ve missed the Ontological-Hysteric Theater‘s sensory overload the last few years. The director-playwright-designer founded his pioneering theater in 1968, mounting total-environment stagings of his own mind-plays. But in 2006, he embarked on the Bridge Project, a series of smaller video-performance…