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by
PETER WEISS
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A Children’s Nightmare
in gleeful, physical verse.
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Intruders stalk the darkness
round a family’s lonesome hut.
Two young children
try to save their parents
from a nasty killer’s knife.
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Medieval German Fairground Kabuki
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“The steel is hard, the flesh is soft!“
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Bloodstone Theatrical
presents
NIGHT WITH GUESTS
by Peter Weiss
at the
New York International Fringe Festival
performed by
Mary C. Davis* Mel House*
Ethan Angelica* David Logan Rankin*
Evan Zes* Jack Herholdt*
with
Juan Herrera on Percussion
*Members of Actors Equity Association of America
An Equity Approved Showcase
Stage Management by Maxwell Waters
Translation by Laurence Dobie
Designs by Suzanne Savoy
Directed by Bill Burford
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Night with Guests represents the turning point
for one of the great artists of our time:
painter, filmmaker, and writer Peter Weiss.
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This largely unknown one-act “study”, written
in January of 1963, moved him from the
introspection of his early plays
– surreal, psychological, detached –
into the rough-hewn, explosively theatrical
engagement of street performance.
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Night with Guests opened the gates for Weiss
to become the guy who one year later would
challenge the whole world with Marat/Sade.
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While drawing on the delights of Kabuki,
Punch & Judy, and fairground performances,
Weiss also called this little play a morität,
a tale of dread and murder,
like those sung by street performers in
central Europe since the 15th Century.
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Produced with the gracious support of
NYC’s Materials for the Arts, the TDF Costume Collection
the John Drew Theater of Guild Hall, East Hampton – Josh Gladstone, Artistic Director
and through the donations of interested individuals like you.
Night with Guests is a Sponsored Project of Fractured Atlas.
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