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Edinburgh International Festival | The Wooster Group

The Wooster Group | Hamlet

10th to 13th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Alongside their sell out re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy 'Hamlet' at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, New York’s groundbreaking theatre company The Wooster Group will be screening four selections from their archive including 'Rumstick Road' and 'House/Lights'.

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EIF 2013 | Selections from the Wooster Group Archive

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Saturday 10th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

A video reconstruction of the landmark 1977 production 'Rumstick Road' which combined audio family letters, taped conversations, dance, 35mm slides and the writing of Mary Baker Eddy to construct a response to the suicide of Spalding Gray’s mother. ‘A brilliant and engrossing work; one whose abstraction and complexity are at the service of genuine emotion.’ The New York Times

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Sunday 11th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

'House/Lights', a video of a complete performance of the 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein’s 'Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights', with Joseph Mawra’s B-movie classic, 'Olga’s House of Shame'.

‘Bedazzling… there’s nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying thoughts about the deeply mixed blessings of technological progress.’ The New York Times

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Tuesday 13th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Three video pieces - 'The Emperor Jones' is a video interpretation of the Group’s original stage production of Eugene O’Neill’s play, 'Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You' is the Group’s 1991 metadocumentary of daily life in a fading performance troupe and 'Rhyme ’Em to Death' is a short black-and-white film from 1994 inspired by Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Monday 12th August 2013, 12 noon. £4|£2
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

'To You, The Birdie! (Phedre)', a video of the 2002 OBIEwinning production of Racine’s 'Phèdre', set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding Plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, hidden cameras, and badminton… 'This blend of ironic seriousness, heightened theatricality and multimedia ballet has developed into one of the sharpest of theatrical instruments.’ The Village Voice

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