Based on a true story.
I really enjoyed the play De Novo (a production of Houses on the Moon Theater Company), which I saw over Mother’s Day weekend last month. The show ran from April 28 through May 16 at 59 E. 59th Street Theatre, a very small space with no assigned seating.
De Novo is about an illegal teenage immigrant seeking asylum in the United States, and the court process that unfolds. It’s a true story, based on transcripts from real court documents of Edgar Chocoy-Guzman, and about his quest to seek asylum from deportation.
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Enclosed within 59E59 Theaters is Theater B, unpretentious and intimate in design. Walking in you find foreign writings across the wall, an intricate device flowing on a mildly moving set. Less than a hundred were there between Madison and Park Avenue to witness a history come alive. We were all subjected to a magnificent true story behind a 1486 Spanish Inquisition file, which was almost stolen from the Spanish National Archives. The interrogation of the detained Israeli professor opens up the forbidden desires awakened by the binding of eyes, the tragic love between a Spanish Priest, Andrés González, and his Jewish wife, Isabel. Andres’s confession of a double life reveals a testing of his conviction amid overwhelming intolerance and persecution.
The cast of Conviction is comprised of three actors, Ami Dayan (Professor Tal, Andrés González), Kevin Hart (Director of The National Archives in Spain, Juan de Salamanca), and Catharine Pilafas (Isabel). [click to continue…]
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Heard of the 1st Irish Festival??? It’s happening right now and H5′s got tix!
Check out Spinning the Times @ 59e59.
When a Palestinian luthier, a London songwriter, a time traveler, a troubled teen and a New Yorker dream of music, escape and home, they are drawn together by the global media, even as their communities and lives are shattered by the events it depicts. A play for five voices by five acclaimed Irish playwrights, Spinning The Times is a tapestry woven by articles from the New York press. [click to continue…]
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