Lenya
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A new play inspired by the lives of Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill.
With music by Kurt Weill.
Lenya Theatricals presents an afternoon sharing following their creative residency at Hawkwood.
Actress and singer, Lotte Lenya, and her husband, the composer Kurt Weill reflect on their lives, their art and the impossible contradictions of love.
With the Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Rosalind Plowright as Lotte Lenya, and actor and international cabaret performer Stefan Bednarcyzk as Kurt Weill.
More about Lenya
Set in New York in 1979, the piece is both confession and cabaret, a latenight reckoning with memory, guilt and song. From the slums of Vienna to Weimar Berlin, from exile under Nazism to Broadway stardom, Lenya and Weill relive their love story in music. With Weill at the piano and Lenya centre stage, they sing, argue, dance, remember and try, one last time, to understand each other. And as Lenya prepares to say goodbye, not only to Weill, but to performing itself, she questions what it means to survive, to be remembered and to truly belong. Witty, painful and defiantly alive, Lenya is an intimate portrait of love in a time of chaos, and music as the one thing that endures.
With music by Kurt Weill.
Lenya Theatricals presents an afternoon sharing following their creative residency at Hawkwood.
Actress and singer, Lotte Lenya, and her husband, the composer Kurt Weill reflect on their lives, their art and the impossible contradictions of love.
With the Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Rosalind Plowright as Lotte Lenya, and actor and international cabaret performer Stefan Bednarcyzk as Kurt Weill.
More about Lenya
Set in New York in 1979, the piece is both confession and cabaret, a latenight reckoning with memory, guilt and song. From the slums of Vienna to Weimar Berlin, from exile under Nazism to Broadway stardom, Lenya and Weill relive their love story in music. With Weill at the piano and Lenya centre stage, they sing, argue, dance, remember and try, one last time, to understand each other. And as Lenya prepares to say goodbye, not only to Weill, but to performing itself, she questions what it means to survive, to be remembered and to truly belong. Witty, painful and defiantly alive, Lenya is an intimate portrait of love in a time of chaos, and music as the one thing that endures.
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Where is it happening?
Hawkwood, Painswick Old Road, GL6 7QW Stroud, United Kingdom, Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud, GL6 7QW, United Kingdom
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Host or PublisherHawkwood, Stroud
