![]() ![]() Peter Meineck is Aquila's producing artistic director, Robert Richmond is associate artistic director. Initiating a new company policy, 10 percent of all tickets sold will be donated to, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. In 1999, Aquila moved to New York and has since presented eight productions, including Homer's Iliad: Book One Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Comedy of Errors and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.īaruch Performing Arts Center is located on 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. Since then the company has toured throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with annual productions in New York and London. Special two-play subscriptions for Aquila's Othello and The Man Who Would Be King ($50 for both plays) are available by phone at (212) 998-8017 or online at *Īquila Theatre Company was founded in London in 1991 by Peter Meineck to present innovative productions of classical drama. Tickets ($45) are available through Telecharge (212) 239-6200. The Othello performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday-Saturday at 8 PM with matinees on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM. Othello is set in 1570-1, making the hero one of the last men sent to defend the. 8, 2004, also at Baruch Performing Arts Center). Othello is the first Moor who is a tragic hero in Jacobean drama. military supported by funding from the Pentagon, workshops on Race in America and a full educational program.Ĭreated by Peter Meineck and Robert Richmond, Aquila's Othello is directed and adapted by Richmond and features music by Anthony Cochrane (who has created original music for numerous Aquila productions).Īquila's premiere New York season (which devotes itself to "productions that intersect on the theme of the effects of war") began with the recent modern production of Agamemnon and concludes with the stage adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, "a retelling of the classic adventure of two British rogues on a quest to conquer the wilds of Afghanistan" (July 1-Aug. This tour included special performances for the U.S. ![]() Othello comes to New York after completing a successful and critically acclaimed 72-city national tour as part of the NEA's Shakespeare in American Communities initiative. ![]() Notice is an alumnus of the Royal Shakespeare Company where he performed in King Lear, Moby Dick, A Country Wife and Woza Albert. Willis' Aquila credits include The Importance of Being Earnest (Jack), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom) and The Tempest (Prospero). He is an alumnus of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Off-Broadway troupe, known for its bold physicality, quirky concepts and British and American casts, presents the Shakespeare classic May 18-June 27, with opening set for June 10.Īquila sets the play on a modern British military base on Cyprus in a new "promenade production" that places the audience with the actors, in the middle of the stage action.Ĭochrane has appeared in such Aquila productions as Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), The Iliad (Achilles) and King Lear (title role). Lloyd Notice and Anthony Cochrane (right) in Othello Photo by Brown Cathell ![]()
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