It’s an action packed weekend in Brooklyn town. As usual there’s too much to do and too little time. My mother-in-law is visiting, which means I will probably catch more of what’s going on than usual. Oh yeah and it’s Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum,which is FREE.
All weekend at BAM: For Colored Girls, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, The Social Network
All weekend at the Pavilion: Due Date, For Colored Girls, Red, Conviction, Hereafter, The Social Network, Care Bears: Share Bear Shines, Megamind
Drama
This weekend at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Penelope: It’s 11.30am and already it’s 92 degrees. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous men connive, plot and play for an unwinnable love, even as they face certain death at the hands of her returning husband. Based on the final chapter of Homer’s The Odyssey, Penelope is the newest play from Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company, written by 2010 OBIE winner Enda Walsh.
Saturday night at BAX in Park Slope: Rabbit Hole Ensemble (RHE) celebrates its Fifth Anniversary by returning to one of literature’s most influential and terrifying stories. Using physical theatre techniques, Kabuki, puppets, and the narrative foundation of story-theatre, this expressionistic gender-bending minimalist adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, FRANKENSTEIN focuses exclusively on the doctor’s side of the story. Much like RHE’s award-winning adaptation of Dracula (THE NIGHT OF NOSFERATU), the company is working with resident playwright Stanton Wood in a year-long exploration of FRANKENSTEIN and its themes; Part 2 will tell the same story, focusing on the monster’s side of the story (to be presented in 2011).
Choreography
This weekend at BAM: Gezeiten: German choreographer Sasha Waltz (Impromptus, 2005 Next Wave; Körper, 2002 Next Wave) returns to BAM with a work that calls on the deepest emotional and physical reserves of her dancers. Gezeiten (Tides), an unsparing dance about the helplessness of humans in the face of disaster, opens after a cataclysmic event has taken place, and all that is left is the temporary refuge of a room.
Muzik
Saturday at The Rock Shop: Bob Mould and Chris Brokow
Saturday at 8PM at Barbes: Adela y Lupita are inspired by classic Mexican duets such as Las Hermanas Huertas or Lena y Lola but unlike their illustrious models, the two women are also phenomenal instrumentalists.
Art at the Museums
MOMA is packed full of great shows: Abstract Expressionist New York, Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography and much more.
The Guggenheim has a great show, too: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany 1918-1936. “Following the chaos of World War I, a move emerged towards figuration, clean lines, and modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies of the avant-gardes—particularly Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism—that dominated the opening years of the 20th century. After the horrors visited upon humanity in the Western hemisphere by new machine-age warfare, a desire reasserted itself to represent the body whole and intact.”
And don’t forget the Brooklyn Museum: “A mid-career survey presents a selection of Fred Tomaselli’s unique hybrid paintings and collages from 1990 to the present.” and Women Pop Artists: “This large-scale exhibition examines the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art. It reconsiders the narrow definition of the Pop art movement and reevaluates its critical reception. In recovering important female artists, the show expands the canon to reflect more accurately the women working internationally during this period. The exhibition features more than fifty artworks by Chryssa, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rosalyn Drexler, Marisol, Yayoi Kusama, Jann Haworth, Vija Celmins, Lee Lozano, Marjorie Strider, Idelle Weber, and Joyce Wieland, among others.”
And don’t forget the John Baldasarri show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in addition to all the other great stuff they have.
For Kiddies: