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Solidarity Books presents... Wallace Shawn's 'The Fever' Tonight! @ The Workshop Theatre (old FAS building)

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Tuesday July 31, 2012 11:44

by Eric

solidaritybooks at gmail dot com

Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street, Opposite Fionn Barras, Cork City

Solidarity Books presents...Howard Zinn's 'Marx in Soho' and Wallace Shawn's 'The Fever'

This July/August Solidarity Books will present….Howard Zinn's 'Marx in Soho' and Wallace Shawn's 'The Fever'. The last time actor and activist Jerry Levy graced these shores he had sell out shows across the country. He returns to perform Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho" as well as Wallace Shawn's "The Fever".

Together these plays illustrate the humanity, care and frailty that lie at the heart of struggles in solidarity for justice and equality. His one person performance are simply brilliant as Jerry brings to life the nuances and contradictions in both Zinn and Shawn complimentary pieces.

Come see them yourself and you'll be talking for ages. And often the case Jerry himself is happy to rejoin the audience to break the barriers between performers and consumers.

When and were details below:
Sunday, July 29th, 3pm – Marx in Soho
Tuesday, July 31st, 8pm – The Fever
Wednesday, Aug. 1st, 8pm – Marx in Soho

@ The Workshop Theatre, Sample Studios (old FAS building), Sullivan's Quay
Tickets €8/€5 waged/low-waged or unwaged.
Fundraiser for Solidarity Books!

Jerry Levy
While not teaching or touring or writing, Jerry Levy is involved in other productions as both Actor and Director. He also has taught sociology at Marlboro College since 1975. In conjunction with his performances Jerry Levy gives lectures, leads discussions and conducts workshops relating the themes of the plays to current events, education, art, culture and society.

Marx in Soho (Howard Zinn)

Howard Zinn’s “Marx in Soho” portrays the return of Marx. Embedded in some secular afterlife where intellectuals, artists, and radicals are sent, Marx is given permission by the administrative committee to return to Soho, London, to have his say. But through a bureaucratic mix–up, he winds up in SOHO in New York. From there the audience is given a rare glimpse of a Marx seldom talked about; Marx the man. The play offers an entertaining and thorough introduction to a person who knows little about Marx’s life, while also offering valuable insight to students of his ideas.
Marx alone occupies the stage. “Marx has different voices. The actor has to show Marx’s outrage at social injustice, express the pedantic Marx, the vindictive Marx, Marx, the loving family man, Marx as humorist, and a Marx that can laugh at his enemies”

The Fever (Wallace Shawn)

While traveling in a poor country, a sensitive, well educated, arts loving and consumption-driven man or woman of any age discovers that his/her life-affirming existence is related to the often brutal suffering of others. In the bathroom of a hotel our “anti-hero” feverishly defends and relentlessly attacks his own way of life. Inner voices and imagined characters fuel his fever as he narrates and often attempts to enact his story.

Related links:
http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/marx-in-soho-and-...fever

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Solidarity Book Contact for comments/further information/photos: Cathal 0851387304
solidaritybooks@gma il.com

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just a reminder that "The Fever" is on tonight

Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:53

just a reminder that "The Fever" is on tonight, 7:30 in the old FAS building. (starts 8pm sharp) Recommended stuff!

see review below from NY Times
http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/theater/reviews/3....html

"“The Fever” offers an intimate tour of the tortured consciousness of an angst-ridden, well-to-do American, but Mr. Shawn’s real goal is to hold an unflattering mirror up to his well-meaning, liberally inclined audience. It’s sort of like Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” with you, dear viewer, cast in the distasteful role of Kurtz."

@ The Workshop Theatre, Sample Studios (old FAS Tonight building), Sullivan's Quay

Tickets €8/€5 waged/low-waged or unwaged.

Also, this is a fundraiser for your local solidarity books. only 5 euros for unwaged 8 euros waged!

Marx in Soho (Howard Zinn) is on tonight, 7:30 in the old FAS building. (starts 8pm sharp)

Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:42

Marx in Soho (Howard Zinn) is on tonight, 7:30 in the old FAS building. (starts 8pm sharp)

http://www.levyarts.com/html/reviews_of_marx_in_soho.html
"Levy's Marx is old and plagued with boils but his mind is as sharp as a tack. He describes how he and his family struggled against extreme poverty, experiencing the ravages of capitalism first hand. Three of his five children fail to survive the harsh conditions of their life in Soho. He is a loving father and husband. He is a good and true friend of all who struggle, even when he disagrees with them on some basic point. He is intolerant of those that make his life's work a fetish and condemns those who have, "put their own comrades against a wall and shot them" under the guise of communism. But he never strays from his basic premise that capitalism is the root cause of human suffering, then and now, and has to go. "

@ The Workshop Theatre, Sample Studios (old FAS Tonight building), Sullivan's Quay Tickets €8/€5 waged/low-waged or unwaged.  Also, this is a fundraiser for your local solidarity books. only 5 euros for unwaged 8 euros waged!

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Solidarity Books presents... Wallace Shawn's 'The Fever' Tonight! @ The Workshop Theatre (old FAS building)

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