Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction at The Brick Theater
The Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211)
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The last date listed for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction was Thursday June 12, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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If I was to rate the performance I would probably give a better review. The acting was done well and the storyline was okay, but the environment was not conducive to enjoying this play because it was a small theatre without any ventilation, air conditioning or fans. And it is listed as a 2hour performance, but it lasted instead for 2.5 hours! I left feeling hot, tired and frusutrated.Written on Jun 13 2008
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Description
In 1942, Orson Welles' second feature film, and probable masterpiece, was mutilated by RKO Radio Pictures. Forty-three minutes were cut and several scenes were reshot in an attempt to make Welles' dark, Chekhovian adaptation of Booth Tarkington's story of a family and town swallowed up in the Industrial Revolution a happier and more commercial experience. It didn't work. The film was buried by the studio, both in the marketplace and physically--all unused footage from the film was destroyed--and Welles' version is gone forever, one of the great mythologized films of Hollywood.
In this show, Gemini CollisionWorks attempts to reconstruct, as well as they can from the documents and photos that still exist, a theatrical interpretation of Welles' cinematic take on Tarkington's novel.
Adapted and directed by Ian W. Hill.
About the Ticket Supplier: The Brick Theater
The Brick and its company, The Brick Theater, Inc., were founded in 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a yoga center, and various storage spaces, this brick-walled garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was completely refurbished as a state-of-the-art performance space.
The Brick has been home to many critically acclaimed premieres, including Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Tupperware Orgy, In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Dear Dubya, Fallout Follies, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn, Who Is Wilford Brimley?, Jenna Is Nuts, Habitat, Absence of Magic, Assyrian Monkey Fantasy (in two movements), and The Pragmatists.
The Summer Theme Festival Series presented The Hell Festival in 2004, The Moral Values Festival in 2005, The $ellout Festival in 2006, and continues with The Pretentious Festival in Summer 2007. In addition, The Brick has also produced a short-works program called Brick-a-Brac, a collection of holiday-themed one-act plays known as The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, and the hugely successful New York Clown Theatre Festival (the first of its kind in New York in more than 20 years).