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Man in a Case at Hartford Stage, March 2013

Workshop rehearsal for Man in a Case (photo by Leslie Lyons)

MAN IN A CASE

February 21 – March 24, 2013

Adapted from the story by Anton Chekhov
Co-Adapted and Directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar / Big Dance Theater
Choreography by Annie-B Parson
Lighting Design by Jennifer Tipton
Set Design by Peter Ksander
Costume Design by Oana Botez
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Video Design by Jeff Larson

World Premiere – February 20, 2013
Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT

Produced by Baryshnikov Productions and ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind the internationally acclaimed Big Dance Theater, bring their signature style fusing theater and movement to this World Premiere adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1898 short story, Man in a Case.  In a tale both witty and haunting, a shy, reclusive man’s courtship of a carefree young woman forces him to stare down his own rigid nature. Mikhail Baryshnikov stars, and is joined onstage with a cast that includes Jess Barbagallo, Tymberly Canale, Chris Giarmo, and Aaron Mattocks.

For Hartford Stage — An Introduction to Man in a Case

Workshop rehearsal for Man in a Case (photo by Leslie Lyons)

Part of the fascination of starting a new project with Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar is getting to know the wealth of wonderful, surprising, seemingly disparate source materials, (forone, youcanseeanearlyfilmadaptationfrom 1939) and then watching them slowly weaving things together, placing elements next to or on top of one another, and seeing an internal logic begin to emerge within the structure of the piece.  This is my fourth time working with them, and it is every bit as mysterious and magical.  I find myself saying, over and over again, how do they find this stuff?  They are impeccable researchers, hunter-gatherers, fact-finders, story-builders.

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