Film (2012)
Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Screenplay by Petter Skavlan
A sweepingly epic treatment of the pioneering journey from Peru to the South Seas by Thor Heyerdahl and crew in 1947.
Mud
Film (2012)
Written and Directed
by Jeff Nichols
With Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard
A superbly wrought film about a man on the edge encountered by two fourteen year old boys and the various attempts at love, devotion and self-reliance which surface in the wake of their meeting.
Ryan Landry’s “M”
Play
by Ryan Landry
Inspired by the film by Fritz Lang
Directed by Caitlin Lowens
Huntington Theatre Company
Calderwood Pavilion
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
March 29 – April 27, 2013
A comedic takeoff off on Fritz Lang’s classic film with lots of self-referential talk about plays, characters and authors.
Trojan Women [After Euripides]
Play (2011)
Created and Performed
by Siti Company
Adapted by Jocelyn Clarke
Directed by Anne Bogart
ArtsEmerson
Paramount Main Stage
Theater District, Boston, MA
April 17-21, 2013
A tautly cathartic adaptation of the Euripides classic about the fate of the women who figure centrally in the Trojan War.
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
A Songplay by
Banana Bag & Bodice
Text and Lyrics by Jason Craig
Music by Dave Malloy
American Repertory Theater
Oberon Theater
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
April 16 – May 5, 2013
A short and entertaining telling and enactment, in very rough outline, of the Norse classic.