Vannacht wordt in New York "Spinoza in Kiev" opgevoerd
Vannacht wordt in New York een Nacht van de Filosofie
gehouden. Daarbij zal om 1:00 uur het stuk van Mériam Korichi worden opgevoerd,
getiteld: Spinoza in Kiev.
"A melodrama for two actresses with piano improvisations. Kiev 1911. Yakov Bok decides to leave the Shtetl (a small, exclusively Jewish town), to learn more about the world. After he manages to find a real job in Kiev, he is unjustly accused of the ritual murder of a 12 year old boy. When Bok is imprisoned, a book by Spinoza is found in his possession. B. A. Bibikov, the Investigating Magistrate for Cases of Extraordinary Importance, is intrigued by this…" [Cf.]
De informatie wordt er niet bij gegeven, maar ik vermoed dat de meeste bezoekers van dit weblog wel zullen weten door welk boek de schrijfster zich heeft laten inspireren (cf. blog & blog)
Mériam Korichi is a philosopher and a theater stage director. She is a Visiting Fellow at NYU Philosophy Department this spring semester, to research on the topic “Philosophy after Art”. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris and at Harvard as a Visiting Fellow. She has several books published by Gallimard including Letters on Evil. A Correspondence between Spinoza and Blyenberg, commentaries on The Outsider and The Plague by Albert Camus, Notions of Aesthetics, Notions of Ethics, and a biography of Andy Warhol. She writes for the contemporary art gallery Eva Hober in Paris. Among her opera and theater productions, she has worked as a dramaturge and stage director collaborator on the staging of the Précieuses ridicules by Molière, the Grande Magia by Eduardo de Filippo and The Tragedy of Hamlet at the Comédie-Française (revival in June 2015). She translated into French and adapted for the stage The Comedy of Errors and The King Richard III by Shakespeare for the theater Bouffes du Nord in Paris (translation published by L’Arche). Intending to challenge the frontiers of her areas of work, she created in Paris in 2010 a concept and a format of an all-night philosophy happening and has staged it since in London (My Night with Philosophers, 2012 & 2013), in Berlin (Die Nacht der Philosophie, 2014), and in New York (A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 2015). [Cf.]
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Het stuk is eerder in 2013 in Frankrijk gegaan - live reading [cf.] - nog te beluisteren [cf.]
Trouwens volgens het Ukrainian Institute of America al in 2010.
