United States
Listen to Me
Kathleen Turner & DK Studio
Directed by
David Kaplan
Choreography by
Patricia Norcia
By
Gertrude Stein
1936, Gertrude Stein returns to her apartment in Paris. Sitting alongside her companion Alice Toklas, she looks at the Picasso paintings of circus performers on her walls and has an idea to write a play. “Listen to Me,” she says to Alice, who transcribes Stein’s vision. Stein envisions the circus shows with horses she saw as a child. Her friends – Picasso, Hemingway, Josephine Baker – are characters in Stein’s surreal play. Listening to the cadence of the horses and her characters, Stein discerns the rhythm of 1936: a conflict of opposed forces has begun to escalate into battles worldwide.
An alternative history of the last century through an exceptional revisiting of some of the greatest minds of modern art.
Written by: Gertrude Stein
Swing/Assistant Director: Kristina Osterling
Production Assistant: Robert Montagnese, Giana Reisen
Costume Designer: James Glavan
Equine Costume Designer: Jillian Nielsen
Cast:
- Kathleen Turner (Gertrude Stein)
- Brenda Currin (Alice B. Toklas)
- Lou Liberatore (Pablo Picasso)
- Patricia Norcia (Lillian)
- John Higgins (Ernest Hemingway)
- Dana Marie Ingraham (Josephine Baker)
- Sam Ridley (Sweet William)
- Abby Gumpper (Dora Maar)
- Luke Philip Bosco (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
and a quadrille of dressage riders featuring Rodrigo Matos, Cavallerò Cristian and Andreea Militaru
Duration: 1h 20min
Date of premiere: 26.06.2025
Original title: Listen to Me
United States
The American Season
Program and Access
27 June, 18:00
Echitație CSM Sibiu
1h 20min
150 / 100 LEI
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