REDCAT (Venue Partner)
631 W 2nd St
213-237-2800
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Paula Court
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Wednesday Feb 10, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Thursday Feb 11, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Friday Feb 12, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Saturday Feb 13, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Sunday Feb 14, 2010 (7–9pm)
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Wednesday Feb 17, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Thursday Feb 18, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Friday Feb 19, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Saturday Feb 20, 2010 (8:30–10pm)
Sunday Feb 21, 2010 (7:30–9pm)
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$55, $45-Students, $35-CalArts
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The Wooster Group: North Atlantic
Los Angeles premiere
“When it comes to striking sparks from crashing art forms and time zones, nobody beats The Wooster Group… Let the fireworks begin.” The New York Times
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte
Featuring Ari Fliakos, Frances McDormand, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, and special guest artists Steve Cuiffo, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone-Stern and Maura Tierney
North Atlantic takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story follows an international peacekeeping force on an aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic, tracing the cultural and sexual dynamics that rise to the fore as they carry out their top-secret mission. Written expressly for the company by James Strahs in 1982, North Atlantic joined a series of Wooster Group works rooted in American themes and told in the rhythms of the American vernacular—works based on texts by Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, and Gertrude Stein. A nostalgia piece, it brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dance.
