| Online readings of ENDSIEG: THE SECOND COMING | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:59 pm EST 01/16/25 | |
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| ENDSIEG: THE SECOND COMING a response to the re-election of Donald Trump By Elfriede Jelinek Directed by Milo Rau Monday, January 20, 2025 1:00 p.m. (EST) Livestreamed on HowlRound RSVP Join us on Inauguration Day for parallel online readings in German and English of Elfriede Jelinek's new play Endsieg: The Second Coming—a response to the re-election of Donald Trump. Translated by Gitta Honegger. Directed by Milo Rau. With introductory words by Elfriede Jelinek on the occasion of the Iraqi-American reading. Readings will be followed on the English streaming site by a Q&A with Milo Rau and Gitta Honegger, moderated by Frank Hentschker, Executive Director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presents this event in collaboration with the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna. It will be livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network. German version read by Ursina Lardi in Mossul/Iraq; American version by Nicole Ansari-Cox in New York/USA with permission of Rowohlt Publishing House, Hamburg Germany. **** About the Play Democracy is in a serious crisis and people are confused. Elfriede Jelinek responded to Donald Trump's second election victory with an important text: Endsieg: The Second Coming, a grim sequel to ?Am Königsweg / The Burgher King, her play about the US election eight years ago. Jelinek shows how his followers see the "new old king" as a divinely chosen redeemer. But the king is not alone. There are shadows behind him, his political and economic cliques, fighting for his attention and with each other. And the resistance is collapsing: "I say there is nothing more, there is nothing else, the other no longer exists, there is nothing to see, there is only the one left," states the blind seer. So, what is left besides Jelinek's relentless exploration of our times? **** The Artists The Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek received the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature and many other prestigious literary and theatre awards. She is best known in the US from Michael Haneke's film The Piano Teacher based on her novel Die Klavierspielerin. Jelinek is one of the most produced living authors/playwrights in the German language world. Her plays are presented by all the major theatre companies often staged by leading innovative directors. These productions have been invited to countless international festivals and received numerous awards. Her plays have also been produced globally. In the US the only fully professional staging of her work was the 2013 New York Woman's Project Theatre's production of Jackie, directed by Tea Alagic. It was nominated for two Lucille Lortel awards for outstanding solo show and outstanding sound design. Most recently, her opus magnum, the epic horror novel Die Kinder der Toten (The Children of the Dead) about the undead victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust was published in the US in Gitta Honegger's translation in March 2024 by Yale University Press, twenty-nine years after its first German publication. As of now, it has been (very perceptively) reviewed in the mainstream press by The Washington Post and The Nation. Milo Rau, born 1977 in Bern, is the Artistic Director of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna. Critics call him the "most influential" (Die Zeit), "most interesting" (De Standaard), "most controversial" (La Repubblica), "most scandalous" (New York Times), or "most ambitious" (The Guardian) artist of our time. The director and author has published over 50 plays, films, books, and actions. His theatre productions have been shown at all major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d'Avignon, the Venice Biennale, the Vienna Festival and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and have been touring in over 30 countries worldwide. From 2018 to 2024 Milo Rau was Artistic Director of NTGent (Belgium). Gitta Honegger?is the longtime translator of Elfriede Jelinek.?Her translations of Jelinek's performance texts include: Sun; Shadow: Eurydice Says (both PAJ); Rechnitz (The Avenging Angel); the Merchant's Contracts- A Comedy of Economics; Charges (The Supplicants); Fury; On the Royal Road: The Burgher King (all Seagull Books/U. of Chicago Press); the "Princess Plays" Jackie, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty (Theater); Air, Ashes, Full Disclosure (forthcoming at Rowohlt Theaterverlag); Winterreise (in process). Most recently, her translation of Jelinek's opus magnum, the novel The Children of the Dead?, was published by Yale University Press in 2024. She also translated plays by Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Marie Luise Fleisser, and others.?Her cultural biography Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian (Yalu University Press) was also published in her translation into German, Thomas Bernhard: Was ist das für ein Narr by Propyläen Verlag. Dr. Honegger was a professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Yale School of Drama and resident dramaturg at the Yale Repertory Theatre where she also directed. Nicole Ansari-Cox is an award winning actor, director, writer, producer and activist for Human Rights and Climate change. Nicole's career started in European theatre and film and has expanded to many countries, languages and cultures, latterly mostly in the USA. She performed with the famed Theatre du Soleil under Ariane Mnouchkine in Paris and on tour, and has starred in numerous plays in Vienna, Zurich, London, Berlin, and NY. Nicole originated her role in Tom Stoppard's Rock N' Roll, directed by Trevor Nunn, at the Royal Court in London and went on to perform in the West End and on Broadway. Nicole created and directed the multimedia show She/Her at Performance Space for the 21st century in NY and brought the show to Edinburgh for a full run. In London, Nicole was most recently seen in Women Who Blow on Knots at the Arcola Theatre and is about to perform at the Haymarket in The Score, opposite Brian Cox, directed by Trevor Nunn.? Ursina Lardi, Member of the Schaubühne ensemble since 2012. Studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Engagements at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schauspiel Hannover, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and the Berliner Ensemble. Numerous appearances in films and on television including in The White Ribbon (2009, directed by Michael Haneke, Palme d'Or at Cannes), Lore (2012, directed by Cate Shortland, Lola in Bronze), and Der namenlose Tag (2017, directed by Volker Schlöndorff). Accolades include: 2006 Prize of the Eliette von Karajan Cultural Foundation, 2014 Swiss Film Award for Best Actress. She was the guest of honor with her own retrospective at the 2016 Solothurn Film Festival. 2017 Hans Reinhart Ring. Together with Milo Rau, she has created Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun (2015), Lenin (2017), and Everywoman (2020). MORE INFO Regarding live events, events are FREE and open to the public on a first come, first served basis at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street. |
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