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The Swiss theatre artist Milo Rau takes RESISTANCE NOW! to the United States: provocative art against new fascism.
The American premiere of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek’s relentless dissection of Donald Trump's presidency Endsieg: The Second Coming is cause for "Europe's most influential director" (Die Zeit) Milo Rau to bring his one hundred million reader campaign RESISTANCE NOW! to the United States.
Jelinek’s radical play against autocracy and fascism premiered at the Down to Earth Festival in New York, featuring Nicole Ansari-Cox and directed by Milo Rau, introduced by a fiery speech by the political artist and followed by a discussion with Tania Bruguera and Richard Schechner.
Read Milo Rau's remarks on the occasion of this day of events.
Town Hall
11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
New York theatre artists, producers, students, and festival makers discuss the state of theatre and performance under the new government.
Milo Rau, in conversation with Frank Hentschker
12:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 2:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 3:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
RESISTANCE NOW! Political Theatre Today
1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Panel with Tania Bruguera, Milo Rau, and Richard Schechner.
Theater of the Real
2 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 4 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 5 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Carol Martin in conversation with Milo Rau.
Reading: Endsieg: The Second Coming by Elfride Jelinek in a translation by Gitta Honegger
3 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
With actor Nicole Ansari. Directed by Milo Rau, followed by Q&A with the director.
About the Reading
Democracy is in crisis, and the public is confused. Elfriede Jelinek responds to Donald Trump’s second election victory with a powerful new text: Endsieg: The Second Coming—a grim sequel to Am Königsweg / The Burgher King, her play about the United States election eight years ago. Jelinek depicts how Trump’s followers view the “new old king” as a divinely chosen redeemer. But the king is not alone. Lurking behind him are political and economic cliques, each vying for his favor—and with one another. Meanwhile, resistance is crumbling: “I say there is nothing more, there is nothing else, the other no longer exists, there is nothing to see, there is only the one left,” declares the blind seer. So what remains, beyond Jelinek’s relentless dissection of our times?
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