Der Kanarienvogel (The Canary)

THE CLARION THEATRE presents

 

DER KANARIENVOGEL (THE CANARY)

 

A new play by STEVEN CARL McCASLAND

Directed by STEVEN CARL McCASLAND

Cast

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf...Anna Kirkland

Mike Hamilton...Brian Piehl

Joseph Goebbels...Levi Morger

Maria Ivogun...Ellyn Stein

Karl Bohm...Mathew Martin

 Adolf Hitler...David Gautschy

Kirsten Flagstad...Kim Rogers

Richard Strauss...Rick Grossman*

Herman  Wilhelm Goring...Orlando Iriarte

Eva Braun/Assistant...Rachel Adams

*Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association

 

Creative Team

Director:  Steven Carl McCasland

Stage Manager:  Hailli Ridscale

Assistant Director:  Kristen Gehling*

Lighting Designer:  Jessical Creager

Costume Designer:  Somie Pak

 

The Clarion Theatre

309 East 26th Street

New York City

 

Tickets can be purchased at http://BeautifulSoup.Showclix.com.

View the trailer at www.tinyurl.com/InRepertory.

May 7th - May 31st, 2015

 

 

DER KANARIENVOGEL (THE CANARY) is a play featuring Arias by Guiseppe Verdi and Richard Strauss that explores the life and career of soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf  (played by actual soprano Anna Kirkland) and how it collides with the inner circle of The Third Reich. Mike Hamilton (Brian Piehl) in academia interviews Schwarzkopf in her later years for his dissertation to prove how politics and music are inseparable. Schwarzkopf, considered a Nazi sympathizer, will do anything to have a shining opera career until her conscious awareness makes her realize she's associating with monsters only to feel like a victim herself. Kirsten Flagstad (Kim Rogers) another opera singer acts as her alter ego exposing her to the horrific events happening to the Jews. Richard Strauss (Rick Grossman)

unveils The Third Reich injustices and her guilty memories of not helping such a great composer yet she sings his arias to Adolf Hitler (David Gautschy) and her lover (Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Orlando Iriarte).

 

The playwright does not claim that this story is fiction and it is not intended to reflect actual circumstances and events.

 

If you'd like to see something from The Third Reich point of vue which really stretches your comfort zone, then go to Der Kanarienvogel (The Canary) at The Clarion Theatre.

- Laura Thompson -

http://www.loralia.com   @LORALIA