By Max Frisch
In a new translation by Michael Feingold
Directed by Liviu Ciulei

April 2-28

Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Chistopher Street)

"To that small pantheon of great contemporary stage directors, one must add Liviu Ciulei. In common with Peter Brook, this Romanian director is a true innovator."
- The New York Times

THE PLAY

Andorra, a 1961 drama by the distinguished Swiss author Max Frisch, is the most produced modern play in Germany. It focuses on anti-Semitism and the rise of fascism in Europe, but is about what could happen anywhere and anytime.

According to The Times Literary Supplement, "Frisch has demonstrated in Andorra the hollowness of the smug slogan: 'It can't happen here.' The close-fisted innkeeper, the churlish carpenter, the journeyman who considers discretion the better part of valor, the vain doctor, the lecherous soldier, and not least the clergyman, with his excess of ill-directed good will, in their petty squabbles and jealousies are all universal figures; insignificant enough individually, they become dangerous (but how dangerous!) only when put under collective pressure."

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THE ARTISTS

The last major New York production of Andorra was in 1963 on Broadway. Theatre for a New Audience has commissioned a new translation from Michael Feingold, chief drama critic of the Village Voice, to make the language fresh, real and everyday to us.

Andorra will be directed by Liviu Ciulei, an internationally established master director. He was Artistic Director of Romania's Bulandra Theatre, the great theatre of Bucharest, and the former Artistic Director of America's Guthrie Theatre.

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THE PRODUCTION

Ciulei's vision of Andorra is a play of ideas whose power lies in its appeal to the audience's emotions. The costumes are 1940's and the setting is the bright white piazza of a town, but the production is not naturalistic. As a secret is slowly revealed, the staging highlights the emotional impact of the drama.

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