Rob Melrose
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VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY: A TRAGEDY - THE CUTTING BALL THEATER
Director • Translator • Playwright
"The Cutting Ball Theater presents Heiner Muller's Hamletmachine and Vladimir Mayakovsky's Mayakovsky: A Tragedy in a double bill of apocalyptic plays called The End of the World as We Know It. Heiner Muller's devastating Hamletmachine was written in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It foretells the end of history and uses the character of Hamlet to look back on the nightmare of the 20th Century. Written by Russian Futurist Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mayakovsky: A Tragedy is an explosive, surrealistic exploration of the poet's fevered mind on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Cutting Ball Theater uses these plays, written during major economic and political revolutions, as a lens to look at our own revolutionary time as the new millennium brings us globalization, cyber-culture, and the increased presence of Orwellian multi-national corporations."
-theatermania
Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy
by Vladimir Mayakovsky
translated by Paul Schmidt
The Cutting Ball Theater
Rob Melrose, Artistic Director
August 8 - 20, 2000
Directed by Rob Melrose
Set Design by Rob Melrose
Costume Design by Amsel Zivkovich
Lighting Design by Rob Melrose
Projection Design by Rob Melrose and Michael Ferris Gibson
Cast
| Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky | Nathan Aaron Place |
| An old man with scrawny black cats | David Austin-Gröen |
| A woman with one ear | Elise Langer |
| A man with a long face | Gabriel Diamond |
| An enormous woman | Adriana Baer / Lara Mathers |
| An ordinary young man | Michael Ferris Gibson |
| A woman with one eye and one leg | Elizabeth Bullard |
| A woman who cries ordinary tears | Meara O'Reilly |
| A woman who cries little tiny ears | Elise Langer |
| A woman who cries great big tears | Adriana Baer / Lara Mathers |
| A man with two kisses | Gabriel Diamond |
| A rich lady who never says a thing | Kris Wasley |
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