'Bacchae' opens Lincoln Center
One-man shows by Fiennes, Neeson end event
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Lineup for the annual fest, which runs July 2-27, also includes performance artist Laurie Anderson, Brit rocker Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and choreographer William Forsythe.
The National Theater of Scotland’s staging of Euripides’ “Bacchae,” with Cumming toplining, bowed at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest last summer and went on to a stint in London in fall. Production is helmed by John Tiffany, also director of “Black Watch,” which earned strong reviews in Gotham last year and returns for a second run in October. Lincoln Center engagement of “Bacchae” runs July 2-13.
Fest collects three separate one-man Beckett shows, produced by Dublin’s Gate Theater and adapted from works not originally conceived for the theater, under the title “Gate/Beckett.”
Neeson stars in helmer Atom Egoyan’s staging of “Eh Joe,” originally written for TV in 1965. Egoyan’s production preemed in Dublin as part of the Beckett Centenary in 2006, when Michael Gambon toplined.
Irish thesp Barry McGovern reprises “I’ll Go One,” an adaptation of three Beckett novels that has toured internationally over the last several years.
Fiennes stars in “First Love,” originally a novella, in a production that bowed in Sydney last year.
“Gate/Beckett,” which also includes readings of Beckett prose, runs July 16-27.
Other fest offerings include the concert “Damon Albarn and the Honest Jon’s Revue” (July 12); Anderson’s musical portrait of the U.S., “Homeland” (July 22-26); and the Royal Ballet of Flanders performing Forsythe’s “Impressing the Czar” (July 17-20).
Lincoln Center Fest also includes a previously announced production of German opera “Die Soldaten,” running July 5-12 at the Park Avenue Armory.
