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Sam Boardman-Jacobs |
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We have information on one play by Sam Boardman-Jacobs
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| Embracing Barbarians |
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presented in 2004
by Found Reality |
synopsis:
Magda Goebels, speaking Hebrew and Yiddish, tries to prevent husband Joseph from murdering her Zionist ex-fiancée on a Palestinian beach, as Gertrude Stein nominates Adolph Hitler for the 1934 Nobel Peace prize, and Leni Riefenstahl chooses between Berlin and Moscow, while Stephen Spender prepares to send his Cardiff boyfriend to a Spanish prison rather than let ‘the Communist Party look bad’.
Gertrude Stein’s nomination and admiration of Adolph Hitler (which during the occupation of France expended to Marshal Petain) was helped by the fact that they both lived by the philosophy of self-hating homosexual/masochist/Austrian Jew/suicide Otto Weininger. (‘In the Jew and the Woman the sense of good and evil are not distinct from one another …’)
Nice people? Or tarnished heroes of the Left? Our political and radical dysfunctional parents?
Writer and Director Sam Boardman-Jacobs has unearthed shocking new facts about the literary left’s favourite pre-war artistic heroes and heroines in a specially commissioned play having its controversial world premiere at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.
After heir award-winning Holocaust Drama productions across Britain, Found Reality Company has commissioned ex-Archers, Brookside and Internationally performed playwright Sam to write this piece based on the political and sexual fantasies of the dying Greek homosexual poet Constantine Cavafy.
Although the play contains scenes of nudity and strong language, the real shock is in the new historical facts. Possibly even more controversial is the decision to attempt to make the piece accessible to both Deaf and hearing performers and audiences, while casting a Deaf performer in the role of a hearing character.
A powerful mixture of physical, textual, musical and mixed media performance with integrated signing and projected text, the production, in collaboration with the University of Glamorgan’s performing arts and Media Department, will be going on to this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
This exciting and controversial production has already been invited to tour Russia, Poland, Holland and Austria.
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