LIBRARY NOTES
Bill Connington and Razors Edge Production
Art by Yasmina Reza
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Members' Room; $20 in advance/$25 at the door
Yasmina Reza's
Art premiered in Paris in 1995 and won the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has had productions worldwide in over thirty
languages. The London production (translated by Christopher Hampton)
received the 1996-97 Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award, and its Broadway run garnered it the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play.
Raising questions about art and friendship, the comedy concerns Serge, a collector of modern art, and his friends Marc and Yvan. When Serge buys an expensive painting that Marc hates, their relationship suffers while they struggle to
define what makes something art. Yvan, caught in the middle, tries to please them both. Anyone who has visited a contemporary art exhibit will be
challenged and exhilarated by the debate.
Bill Connington is the creator and star of the extended-run, critically lauded show Zombie, adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates. His short films of Zombie and The Thornhills of Park Avenue are currently appearing on the film festival circuit. The full-length feature of Zombie is slated for production in May 2012. As an actor, he has appeared in theater, television and independent film. His recent plays include The Eternal Anniversary, which appeared at 59 East 59, and Princes of Darkness at the Dream Up Festival. He is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
THIS EVENT IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ESTATE OF MARIAN O. NAUMBURG.
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