Iza Waits for the Men
As the Monday night reading in the back room Library Lounge at Telephone Bar & Grill winds down, a small raked stage surrounded by a demure rig of tiny stage lights is being prepped in a corner of the main restaurant area. Revolving kulcha in a variety of media tonight, it seems. Curious, I linger.
More or less without warning the MONDAY Theatre @ Green Hours presents a quick run (two performances, two days) of The Sunshine Play by Peca Stefan, a Romanian romantic triangle of a piece that played at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2005 and won critical honors at the London Fringe in 2006.
From the Fringe it's just a hop skip and jump to the East Village, it seems. Green Hours is a jazz club in Bucharest that has hosted music and theatre shows since September of 1994, so we're keeping up a fine tradition.
The show is a free presentation of the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, performed in English by the three Romanian actors who created the roles. Here Isabela Neamtu as Iza runs afoul of New York's smoking ban after breaking up with her boyfriend during a romantic rooftop dinner by candlelight. He brings flowers and an Important Question, and things don't turn out quite as he planned. But the night is still young.
I ask around, get permission to take pictures, and photograph the piece for the upcoming issue of New York Cool. Some nights you have to love the randomness of this city.
(Technically, she could legally have smoked it - the law provides that smoking is permitted in the performance of art or entertainment. I'm not sure if they knew that.)
This photograph has been spotted as high as #157 on the Flickr daily Interestingness charts.
Iza Waits for the Men
As the Monday night reading in the back room Library Lounge at Telephone Bar & Grill winds down, a small raked stage surrounded by a demure rig of tiny stage lights is being prepped in a corner of the main restaurant area. Revolving kulcha in a variety of media tonight, it seems. Curious, I linger.
More or less without warning the MONDAY Theatre @ Green Hours presents a quick run (two performances, two days) of The Sunshine Play by Peca Stefan, a Romanian romantic triangle of a piece that played at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2005 and won critical honors at the London Fringe in 2006.
From the Fringe it's just a hop skip and jump to the East Village, it seems. Green Hours is a jazz club in Bucharest that has hosted music and theatre shows since September of 1994, so we're keeping up a fine tradition.
The show is a free presentation of the Romanian Cultural Institute New York, performed in English by the three Romanian actors who created the roles. Here Isabela Neamtu as Iza runs afoul of New York's smoking ban after breaking up with her boyfriend during a romantic rooftop dinner by candlelight. He brings flowers and an Important Question, and things don't turn out quite as he planned. But the night is still young.
I ask around, get permission to take pictures, and photograph the piece for the upcoming issue of New York Cool. Some nights you have to love the randomness of this city.
(Technically, she could legally have smoked it - the law provides that smoking is permitted in the performance of art or entertainment. I'm not sure if they knew that.)
This photograph has been spotted as high as #157 on the Flickr daily Interestingness charts.