SEASON 2012

Grand'Peur et Misère du Troisième Reich

(Fear and Misery of the Third Reich)

by Bertolt Brecht

Directed by René Migliaccio and Produced by Compagnie Théâtre Artefact

Performed by: Pascale Brochu, Catherine Brunet, France Dandurand, Emilie Fecteau, Valérie Gagnon-Laniel, Stéphanie Ribeyreix, and Matthieu Samaille

May 2012, Montréal, Québec, Canada

International Collaboration with Compagnie Théâtre Artefact

Using Nazi Germany as a metaphor of today's world, this new multi-media adaptation by director René Migliaccio and Company Théâtre Artefact, portrays how the fear of the Other feeds the political and psychological oppression, and how the mechanisms of defense and dominance plunge the individual into decadence. Film, slides and paintings envelop the performers creating an hybrid style of performance where projections of images and theatre interact to expand the performance space.

 

 

      Charles Ponzi: A dollar and a Scheme by Alessio Bordoni

                                  based on "Charles Ponzi's autobiography"

The Flea Theater, New York, July 2012

A multi-media production directed by René Migliaccio, performed by Alessio Bordoni (On Stage and on Film). Film Additional cast of 10 actors is TBD.

The play follows the rise and fall of Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) - investor of the Ponzi Scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. Investment fraud tied to Ponzi schemes has become daily front-page news, with authorities uncovering pyramid scams everywhere from Wall Street (Bernie Madoff) to the farmlands of Missouri (Cathy Gieseker).

This play is an advocacy against the evils of capitalistic venture when in the hands of a-moral organizations and/or individuals and exposes the mindset of a class of society that is geared towards profits without the regulating processes of law, decency and civil responsibility. Think subprime mortgage experiment (a Ponzi scheme) and the financial meltdown it created left in its trails: economic inequality, foreclosures, unemployment, loss of living standards; and all the tears of the middle class, while corporate profits are soaring.

In this original multi-media production, black and white film and theatre interact simultaneously, as all characters in Ponzi's life appear on film - projections and creations of his own fragmented psycho-social reality -  and enter in a direct dialogue with Ponzi on the stage. The play starts on film, at the end of Ponzi's life, months before his death, and is constructed like a biographical story- telling - interspersed with newsreel, actual images from Ponzi's life and his surroundings - in which Ponzi looks back on his life and his accomplishments, which for him were incomparable in American history. Close up fills the screen, and theatre and film create an expressionistic dreamlike quality of the mnemonic environment.

 

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