Art and Resistance: Screenings and Conversation with European Theatre Artist Milo Rau

Name: Art and Resistance: Screenings and Conversation with European Theatre Artist Milo Rau
Start: 2024-09-23T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-23T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States, New York 10016

Schedule

Mon Sep 23 2024 at 02:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States, New York 10016 | New York, NY

In support of the upcoming performance of renowned theatre artist Milo Rau's Antigone in the Amazon at the NYU Skirball Center (September 27-28), the Segal will be screening films of the two previous productions in Rau's myth meets modern-day activism trilogy: Orestes in Mosul and The New Gospel. The screenings will be accompanied by a conversation about art and resistance with Rau and Cameroonian activist and writer Yvan Sagnet.
This event will also be live-streamed through HowlRound.
Milo Rau is regarded by many as the most significant politically engaged theatre director working today, following in the footsteps of Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. In these two Global Realism projects, New Gospel and Orestes in Mosul, Rau asks: What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? Can a Greek tragedy really help heal a burnt city like Mosul in Iraq? What can and does a theatre play leave behind—what impact can it have in the real world?
✦ 2:00 p.m.
Orestes in Mosul
Milo Rau traveled to Mosul with his cast and crew to stage his version of Aeschylus' trilogy of tragic drama the Oresteia. He sought out Iraqi actors, and recorded violent scenes in the war-torn city. An undertaking that sometimes led to fierce discussion. Cameraman Daniel Demoustier followed everything from closeby. His documentary contains footage of the play itself, the rehearsal process in Mosul, and interviews with the actors. Where an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth applies, one irrevocably ends up in a vicious circle of violence. Can it ever be stopped?
✦ 4:00 p.m.
A conversation with Milo Rau and Yvan Sagnet, moderated by Segal Center Executive Director Frank Hentschker.
✦ 5:00 p.m.
The New Gospel
If Jesus lived today, what people would he fight for? In The New Gospel, Rau and his team return to the origins of the gospel. The protagonist of The New Gospel is the Cameroonian activist Yvan Sagnet. In 2011 he himself works on a tomato farm when he starts to revolt against the exploitation of rural workers in the south of Italy.
To see more details or to RSVP, please check out our website:
https://www.thesegalcenter.org/event-details/art-and-resistance-screenings-and-conversation-with-european-theatre-artist-milo-rau