{"id":58583,"date":"2021-11-29T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/gael-octavias-play-moliere-park\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:39:01","slug":"gael-octavias-play-moliere-park","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/gael-octavias-play-moliere-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ga\u00ebl Octavia&#8217;s Play at Moli\u00e8re in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for Ga\u00ebl Octavia&#8217;s fever dream-like <em>Family<\/em>, translated by Katharine Woff and Lucie Tiberghien, and Moli\u00e8re\u2019s outrageous and fast-paced farce <em>The Imaginary Cuckold,<\/em>\u00a0translated by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur.<\/p>\n<p>Both readings are directed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucietiberghien.com\/\">Lucie Tiberghien<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Free &amp; open to all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Performance Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, December 9 | 7pm<\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 10 | 7pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In English. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. Both performances will be followed by a Q&amp;A with the artists involved.<\/p>\n<p>Please be advised Moli\u00e8re in the Park is following all NYC COVID mandates. Everyone attending <strong>must be fully vaccinated\u00a0two weeks prior to the event<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Proof of Vaccination along with ID<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will be checked at the door.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About The Plays<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Family &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>\u200bIn Ga\u00ebl Octavia\u2019s fever dream-like <em>Family<\/em>, a trapped wife, a closeted queer husband, and their young children unravel under the weight of \u201cmaintaining the facade.\u201d What is the disease that spreads through us and our families when social conventions of any kind force us into hiding?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Imaginary Cuckold &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>In Moli\u00e8re\u2019s farce<em>\u00a0The Imaginary Cuckold<\/em>, a tiny, innocuous event gives birth to a virus called paranoia that contaminates all the characters in the story like a wildfire. Within no time, all have lost their mind and become \u201cimaginary cuckolds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Produced by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moliereinthepark.org\/\">Moli\u00e8re in the Park\u00a0<\/a>with the generous support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/\">Villa Albertine \/ the\u00a0Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a>.\u00a0In partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectpark.org\/connect\/?redirect_url=%2F\">Prospect Park Alliance\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lakesidebrooklyn.com\/\">LeFrak Center at Lakeside<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About Moli\u00e8re in the Park<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re in the Park is driven by the conviction that neighborhoods with easy, regular, and affordable access to theater are breeding grounds for thriving individuals, families, and communities. We believe theater promotes health and hope. It encourages communal reflection and fosters empathy as a core value. It is one of the cornerstones of a functioning society.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2018 by Lucie Tiberghien and Garth Belcon, MIP is now becoming an annual staple of Brooklyn\u2019s foray into summer, and is the sole company in the borough dedicated to bringing FREE theater of the highest caliber to all of the people of Brooklyn, annually.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider making a tax-deductible donation when you reserve your free ticket, or visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moliereinthepark.networkforgood.com\/projects\/98159-main-giving-page\">Moli\u00e8re in the Park<\/a>\u00a0to help us continue to present programs like these.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About Playwright Ga\u00ebl Octavia<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, in 1977, Ga\u00ebl Octavia has been living and working in Paris since 1995. Trained as a scientist, she is a self-taught jack-of-all-trades who writes novels, poetry, theatre, short stories, and screenplays, paints, makes short fiction films&#8230; Her texts are marked by Martinique society, in which she grew up, while addressing universal themes such as migrants, family, identity, and the female condition. Her plays have been read and performed in France, the United States, the Caribbean, Reunion Island, Africa&#8230; Her first novel,<em> La fin de Mame Baby<\/em> (Gallimard) received the special mention of the jury of the 2017 Wepler Prize. Her latest publications are a play, <em>Rhapsodie<\/em> (Lansman Editeur), created par Abdon Fortun\u00e9 Koumbha, and a novel, <em>La bonne histoire de Madeleine D\u00e9m\u00e9trius<\/em> (Gallimard), both released in 2020. A first presentation of <em>Family<\/em> took place in December 2019 part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchculture.org\/events\/10927-caribbean-theater-action-dec-2-3-cuny\">Caribbean Theater Action<\/a> at The Segal &#8211; CUNY Graduate Center.<\/p>\n<p>Villa Albertine, with the French Embassy, aims to highlight the work of French playwrights\u2014both in French and in English translation\u2014for a broad American audience. In recent years, greater attention has been devoted to developing productions of French plays translated to English staged with an American cast. The presentation of <em>Family<\/em> by Ga\u00ebl Octavia is part of this momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58581,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[227],"app_city_tax":[217],"app_event_type":[243],"class_list":["post-58583","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-performing-arts","app_city_tax-nyc","app_event_type-performance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ga\u00ebl Octavia&#039;s Play at Moli\u00e8re in the Park - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/gael-octavias-play-moliere-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ga\u00ebl Octavia&#039;s Play at Moli\u00e8re in the Park - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join us for Ga\u00ebl Octavia&#8217;s fever dream-like Family, translated by Katharine Woff and Lucie Tiberghien, and Moli\u00e8re\u2019s outrageous and fast-paced farce The Imaginary Cuckold,\u00a0translated by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur. 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