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‘Marvin’s Room,’ a Wise Comedy About Dying, Is Bound for Broadway

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MARVIN'S ROOM

 

“Marvin’s Room,” a comic play about a dying woman caring for a dying man, will be staged on Broadway for the first time next summer, more than a quarter-century after it was written.

The play, in which a woman with leukemia reaches out to an estranged sister in hopes of finding a bone marrow donor, ran Off Broadway in 1991, at Playwrights Horizons, and was adapted into a film in 1996, starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio.

“Marvin’s Room” was written by Scott W. McPherson, who died from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 33. The production will be directed by Anne Kauffman, in her Broadway debut.

The Art and Alchemy of Mask Theatre

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The art and alchemy of mask theatre

At the end of many mask theatre shows, there is a brilliant moment when the actors remove their masks and we’re surprised by the performers behind. When I saw Vamos’s Finding Joy at Jacksons Lane in London in 2014, audience members were audibly astonished and delighted to discover the actors bore so little resemblance to the characters they had played. In mask theatre the old can be young again, while the youthful can play the old. Gender, too, is up for grabs. It’s also an economically advantageous art form: a small company can play many characters.

There is a strange alchemy about mask theatre. The ancient Greeks recognised its power and contemporary audiences seem increasingly drawn to a form that until recently was dismissed as a wee bit fusty.

“You have to recognise just how powerful mask theatre can be and learn to control it,” she says. “It means as a director and performer, you have to be alert to every tiny detail, every minute change of pace, and you have to keep paring back. It’s such a delicate balance but when mask theatre works audiences love it and respond so directly: straight from the heart.”

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The Performance Benefits Of A “Can-Do” Attitude

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Any time we learn something new, it can be easy to get discouraged by the level of our performance in the early going. It’s not fun when our ego takes a hit, and if we are accustomed to being good at what we do, and picking things up pretty easily, it can be tempting to give up on ourselves a bit prematurely.

But how quickly you learn a skill in the beginning stages is not necessarily predictive of how well you will be able to perform that skill in the end. So, whether it’s tackling a new genre of music (like joining a baroque ensemble and being flummoxed by the lack of chinrest), or exploring a new facet of your skillset (like improvisation, whether it be in classical or jazz), focusing less on how well you’re doing, and more on simply doing a little better next time seems like it could be a much better strategy for success both in the short term, and in the long run.

So yes, it turns out there is something to that line from the classic children’s book after all. Saying “I think I can” really does seem to help improve performance!

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Last-minute Tickets For Performances at the Royal Opera House

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Last minute tickets at The Royal Opera House

The start of the 2016/17 Season will see the introduction of Friday Rush at the Royal Opera House. Every Friday at 1pm, 49 tickets will be released for each main stage performance in the coming week – even for sold-out shows.

The tickets are at a range of prices from the lower price ranges for a production, so Friday Rush offers a great way to buy cheaper tickets for in-demand shows. The first release will be at 1pm on Friday 9 September 2016, offering newly released tickets for performances from Saturday 10 September to Friday 16 September of The Royal Opera’s Norma and Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).